Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Domhoff Buildings are a pair of historic commercial buildings in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Franklin, the two buildings are located on one corner of the junction of Hamilton and Chase Avenues, that neighborhood's most important intersection.”
Wikipedia article Domhoff Buildings, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.80003047- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,148 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Domhoff Buildings between 1819 and
1975: 2,981 Fungi, 1,861 Animalia, 940 Plantae, 315 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Domhoff Buildings: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
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From the nomination file
1,660 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
served by a common boiler system. ploying a plastic mansard roof. The cast iron columns were, however, left intact so This building has a non-functioning elevator to the 3rd floor, a later addition, ca. between the 1st. and 2nd. and 3rd. floors. Most apartments are only two rooms plus bath, but the rooms are extremely large (about 15' x 20'). terior is less imposing and has the wainscotting treatment, but no marble or ceramic The present owners intend to reverse alterations and hope to take advantage of the 1976 CONDITION tile.
UNALTERED EXCELLENT UNEXPOSED XGOOD FAIR CHECK ONE buildings with service yard between were presumably constructed for existing usage as Some exterior modifications have taken place.The beauty salon tenant under the turret Situated at the most significant commercial corner in the historic area of Northside, floors in entry hall as well as original marble wainscotting and first stair landing. that the alterations may be dismantled without injury to the structure.Easily removed tax legislation. the S.E.corner is capped by steep conic tile.Commercial bays on facades are accentu- Many of the apartments have simple mantles with fancy ironwork coyers over coal grates. ditioners, and unfortunate window signage, all easily corrected.
Foyer is faced with original oak beveled panels.Stair halls and stairways have ori- 17apartments plus 5 commercial spaces (currently used as 3).The two structures are colonial muntins have been imposed on the shop at 4203 Hamilton.The facade of this implemented his own exterior modernization"circa,1974,bricking up windows and em- 4 floors plus full basement of about 4,0o0 sq.ft.It contains original tile and marble 1950.It also has original stained glass windows (3 panels each) on the stair landings placed with "modern" doors.
paired windows, heavy ashlar beltcourses, and corbeling. The prominent turret on tion, are vital to the neighborhood's nineteenth century urban landscape. Mr. Domhoff, born in Cincinnati in 1853, joined the manufacturing firm of Addy, Hall & Company. in tablished the Domhoff & Joyce Company, producers of pig iron and coke. 1893 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION RELIGION INVENTION SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SCIENCE PERIOD AGRICULTURE LAW PREHISTORIC THEATER 1900- SCULPTURE INDUSTRY POLITICS/GOVERNMENT LITERATURE of late nineteenth century Victorian architecture, but also for their association with SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN are indicative of the Italianate influence, but all are juxtapose against the use of LCOMMUNICATIONS _ECONOMICS by W.W.
Franklin, an obscure but important Cincinnati architect.In terms of architec- ture, the two buildings are illustrative of the transitional period between the Italia- nate and Queen Anne styles. The heavy metal cornice, frieze windows, and wide brackets -1400-1499 Domhoff #l is well suited to the building's location and is the major Queen Anne design exceeded one million dollars in a city where the manufacturing of pig iron was the third largest industry. Domhoff's retirement was abbreviated one, for in 1895 he es- 187l.By 1888 he was promoted to senior partner of the firm, then known as the Matthew Addy Company, producers of pig iron.When Domhoff retired in 1894,Addy's gross sales COMMUNITY PLANNING element.
There two buildings, because of their integrity of design and strategic loca- X1800 MUSIC ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ENGINEERING The two buildings nominated herein are significant not only as excellent representations
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003047, 19 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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