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
“Mount Adams Public School is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on November 24, 1980.”
Wikipedia article Mount Adams Public School, 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.80003066- 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 6,226 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Mount Adams Public School between 1819 and
1975: 3,185 Fungi, 1,703 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 Mount Adams Public School: 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
1,740 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
room school house to seat 450 pupils, it is still being used as a have bracketed pilasters. The rear elevation facade is similar to the front, excluding an entrance. The North and South elevations are identical with eleven but not ornate. Three small 1/1 windows are displayed in the top-gable tion of the building combinded new technology, with the use of steel I CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED FAIR XUNALTERED risers.The floor plan of the interior contains a central corridor extensive dormers, and richly detailed main entrance.The steeply work revisions. gable contains corbelled panelling beneath third story windows which and rear elevations with wire screen coverings.
chimneys and pedimented dormers enhance the roof line.Each elevation The building is distinquished by its asymmetrical fenestration, contains a gable and wall dormer.The front elevation contains seven egg and dart molding and dentils and bears the inscription "Mt.Adams measure.The latest alteration occured in 1972 with some electrical Art Academy of Cincinnati.
semi-circular leaded glass window with #3) Stone belt CHECK ONE the tablets is an entablature with ofamandatory enclosing of the stairs in 1917 asa fireproofing district of Mount Adams.The steep hillside required the lot to be as encompasses the 1intels and sills.The windows are double hung 2/2 X.EXCELLENT pitched hip gable roof is covered with slate.Two massive corbelled on the corner of St.Gregory and Monestary Streets in the business Public School A.D.1894."The double door entrance is surrounded bya the lot. The school is a rectangular plan 2 1/2 story brick building, graded, thus there is a 25 foot grade from the front to the rear of -RUINS -GOOD bays with an elaborately decorated arched main entrance in the central bay.
features, the asymmetrical fenestration, extensive dormers and elabor- several schools: Fairview, 1888; Lincoln 1898; and Columbian, 1898. W.H. Morgan, Superintendent of Schools, noted on the completion of the Mount Adams Public School, that it was a departure fom the old plans Winton Place; A.H.Hinkle townhouse residence on Pike Street, demolished; C.H.Duhme residence, Clifton; Lincoln Inn Court; Charles Fleischmann residence, Walnut Hills; Fleischmann Distillery, Riverside; United 1500-1599 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 ART community.
ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING PERIOD SCULPTURE SCIENCE THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PREHISTORIC 1900- MILITARY INDUSTRY SIGNIFICANCE MUSIC buildings and residences including: Episcopalian congregation chapel, _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT one of the few remaining nineteenth century Romanesque school buildings que architecture. The school is situated in a prominent position in LITERATURE Building; Farmers National of Mansfield, German National, Covington, locations than any other school in the city. of school buildings and more in harmony with prevelant architecture in Cincinnati designed by Henry E.Siter.The school's main stylistic and numerous private residences.
_PHILOSOPHY The Mount Adams Public School is significant as an embodiment of _TRANSPORTATION _CONSERVATION ately detailed arched main entrance make it a fine example of Romanes- the business district of Mount Adams and forms an intregal part of the _COMMUNICATIONS XEDUCATION plans.Prior school designs were critically considered and ill adapted The Mount Adams School has had a total of five locations before a rented house on Hatch Street, a rented building on St.
Gregory, its location on its present site.In 1885,the residents of Mount to school houses.Siter was noted for his designs of other public Kentucky; Citizens Bank, Sidney; Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church; Henry for the Cincinati Board of Mount Adams School has been used as a school and currently the Board of Education has leased the building to the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003066, 13 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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