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
“Ida Street Viaduct is a registered historic structure in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on November 28, 1980. The reinforced concrete bridge is located in the hilltop neighborhood of Mount Adams.”
Wikipedia article Ida Street Viaduct, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.80003060- 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 6,225 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ida Street Viaduct between 1819 and
1975: 3,186 Fungi, 1,701 Animalia, 923 Plantae, 364 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Ida Street Viaduct: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
4,120 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
Court Street) between Monastery and Paradrome Streets in Mount Adams. houses, a church and a surface parking lot. The southern approach French Construction Co. for $14,731. road and direct it upwards. - tracks in 1949. At that time a new concrete roadway slab was placed 1 The Kosomos Cement News, January 1931 UNEXPOSED CONDITION DETERIORATED EXCELLENT 7DESCRIPTION out width between copings is 37 feet.The bridge originally contained way Company. feet at the skewbacks.Spandrel columns resting upon the arches feet below Court Street to rock and shale.The north and south piers spans for supports.A fluted hand railing adorns the entire structure. three small spans at each end of the viaduct are built as continuous A light gray colored concrete was used for the structure.
The The Ida Street Bridge crosses over Wareham Drive (formerly East joins Celestial Street in a graceful curve at the Rookwood Pottery as follows:1The footings for the central piers were carried down 30 The principal features of the design and details are summarized wide between curbs with sidewalks five feet on each side.The out to total amount of concrete for the entire work was 36oo cubic yards, are founded on rock and shale but at much shallower depths.Both of need of repair due to the heavy concentration of traffic use. A novel scheme of indirect lighting is featured,33 two-hundred watt CHECK ONE concrete roadway slab was placed and the approaches paved by the J.H.
wing of the south-abutment is a retaining wall 188 feet long, partly The reinforced concrete bridge built in 1931 at a cost of $90,000 ona curve.The total length of the bridge is 592 feet.The height and the total amount of reinforcing steel was 24o tons.
adapted in the Western Hills Viaduct. At the time it was built it was artistic conception from John Dee Wareham, head of the Rookwood Pottery, Street Bridge remains spectulative, Biedinger was the structural engineer. 1400-1499 1700-1799 ART ECONOMICS THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE ARCHITECTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT MILITARY INVENTION XTRANSPORTATION 1800-1899 LITERATURE INDUSTRY MUSIC X1900- -1600-1699 watt globes recessed in the railings.They are mounted with special _EDUCATION Among his accomplishments were the designs of the Hopple Street viaduct, The Ida Street Bridge is significant as an embodiment of an _COMMUNICATIONS Times Star interview June 28,1968,Biedinger denies Wareham had anything _PHILOSOPHY it upwards.
Thus the silhoutte effect proves not only a safety design of the structural supports for the Dixie Terminal. or J.R. Biedinger, Structural Engineer.Local newspaper accounts credit but is aesthetically pleasing. SPECIFIC DATES The Kosomos Cement News credits him as being the designer.In a Post & the Park Avenue viaduct which spans Kemper Road in Eden Park and the Wareham for the design conception.But in the September J.R.Biedinger graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1913. -COMMERCE X_ENGINEERING _RELIGION -1500-1599 -SCULPTURE -LAW ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING tion Program of the Ida Street Bridge, Biedinger is recognized as the 1931 indirect lighting was recessed in the hand railings of the bridge.
This lenses which diffuse the light horizonally across the road and direct bridge designer.The blueprints on file in the City Structures Department principal feature of the design is the illumination with 33 two-hundred innovative 2oth century bridge:engineering and design scheme in which acclaimed as one of the most beautiful structures of its kind.The of the City of Cincinnati, show Biedinger as the structural engineer and to do with the design or construction.While the designer of the Ida 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003060, 21 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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