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Hemann, Joseph A., House
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
“Hemann House in Cincinnati, Ohio, was built in 1870 by Joseph A. Hemann (1816-1897) and served as his residence for about ten years.”
Wikipedia article Joseph A. Hemann House, 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.80003057- 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 5,936 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hemann, Joseph A., House between 1819 and
1975: 2,890 Fungi, 1,762 Animalia, 935 Plantae, 298 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Hemann, Joseph A., House: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lead, Antimony, Zirconium. 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
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
1,776 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
basement windows. The narrow front door is accessable via a flight of iron stairs X good design and layout of the building was adapted to meet the spatial limitations stories in height and constructed of red brick laid in the common bond. date attic window.Since the building was constructed on a steep hillside, the limestone Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ conservation .law - science - economics X literature - sculpture X architecture X education - military _ social/ - music X 1800-1899 . commerce - theater - industry - politics/government - transportation _ invention X other (specify) Specific dates 1870 Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Joseph A. Hemann House is significant as it represents a distinctive period in does exhibit design elements characteristic of mid-nineteenth century architecture the north elevation enhance the modest appearance of the building. Except for an Hemann the following year, it was occupied by members of the Hemann family through new St. George church, a parish that both physically and spiritually attracted solid if somewhat austere, is typical of the period, and because of its typicalness, commercial properties in downtown Cincinnati have been demolished and the other 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 humanitarian Period communications Builder/Architect engineering immigration 1500-1599 agriculture 8. Significance Ohio, and commenced publication of the Ohio Volkszeitung.
Thus, Joseph A. Hemann, 1900- immigrant Germans to lower Corryville.By 1881,Hemann had relocated to Canton, unobtrusive addition to the rear, the house retains its original integrity.Joseph well regarded German publication.In 1868,he established the Joseph Hemann Banking urban vernacular architecture and for its association with an important member of - art - archeology-prehistoric . community planning _ landscape architecture - religion - exploration/settlement - - philosophy Cincinnati's German community. While the building is generally unembellished, it in Cincinnati.
The symmetrical front facade with decorative gables on both it and Anton Hemann, an immigrant from Onasbruck, Germany, was an educator, author, publisher, Wahrheits freund, and established the Volksfreund, which advertised itself as the the early 1890's. In 1872, Hemann was appointed to the building committee for the a resident of Cincinnati from 1839-c. 1880, achieved prominence in a city that was Hemann family houses in this area have suffered from extensive alterations. Thus, this principal at St. Mary's parish, one of the city's first and foremost German Catholic is the best remaining Hemann property in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Directories, 1850-1895, Cincinnati Historical Society. Der Fuhrer von Cincinnati.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003057, 16 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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