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 Pfleger Family Houses are a pair of adjacent historic residences in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in the Queen Anne style in the late nineteenth century, they were the homes of multiple members of the locally prominent Pfleger family.”
Wikipedia article Pfleger Family Houses, 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.80003072- 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 6,448 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pfleger Family Houses between 1819 and
1975: 3,264 Fungi, 1,842 Animalia, 927 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Pfleger Family Houses: 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
5,383 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
fanlight whose theme is enhanced by the leaded-glass, stilted arch above fanlight, and window is an arched and carved motif. This building's slate and tile gabled roof has two wall dormers, one with stone 7. Description Condition unexposed ruins Victorian and is asymmetrical in plan.Likewise common to this epoch is this home's foundation supports this running bond brick structure.The windows are treated with accentuates the first floor and contain ornate stained-glass.Adjacent to this bay, Five single stacked chimneys with cresting supports are also atop this structure.
216 Erkenbrecker: spire and box gutters, and a protruding brick apparatus which extends vertically on Ionic capitals that support the porch roof.The flat porch roof is surrounded by a transom stained-glass (please turn to continuation sheet) The building's base is rock-faced ashlar with cut stone water table.This Check one Directly suggestive of the Queen Anne era is the conical turret projecting from the turret located on the building's south-east corner.The brick turret is complete with wooden pilasters on each side of the door.The raised porch is graced with decorative carved madallion, and two plain hipped dormers.There is a weathervane atop the front whose design incluse a spire, three carved stone motifs, dentiled cornices just below stained-glass windows on the first floor.This bay is capped with wall dormer.
stone carved wall dormer.At the roof's crest are ornate finials and lightning rods. An abundance of Victorian architectural detail is further exhibited on this both sides. This building isa 2 story prime example of Queen Anne/Victorian architecture. an aray of framings such as plain lug sills, continuous sills, stilted arch (some with This 2h story high structure's architectural detailing is also Queen Anne/ keystone),and plain stone lintels.The windows are various shapes and sizes.
(in one paragraph) Edward Pfleger, son of Julius and Catharine, occupied the residence at 218 Erkenbrecker President and, following his father's death in 1905, President Guiss, Pfleger and Co. sesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, and craftsmanship. Its pro- 1500-1599 1700-1799 1400-1499 Builder/Architect humanitarian commerce theater engineering literature transportation invention music industry 1900- minent location on the immediate streetscape and visual juxta position to the Cincinnati 8. Significance with his family.Julius Pfleger was a reasonably successful business-man, having been the architectural history of the United States.:Though not unique in terms of Cin- Julius and Catharine, were German immigrants and occupied the house at 2l6 Erkenbrecker.
Zoo make these two buildings a significant part of Cincinnati's built environment. Julius Pfleger cinnati's overall Queen Anne composition, the two houses are good examples of a popular of the late Queen Anne architecture in Cincinnati.Although the dominant style is style that was quite prevalant during the waning years of the Victorian era.The military - other(specify) - archeology-prehistoric _ community planning landscape architecture _ religion _ architecture _ art _exploration/settlement - philosophy Victorian-Queen Anne, evidence of the emerging classical revival is apparent. Some of The Pfleger Family Houses are significant as they embody the distinctive characteristics Erkenbrecker is particularly appealing by the manner it was adapted to the corner lot.
1600-1699 Period 1897-1899 Specific dates and distinguishable entity.The Pfleger Houses strongly portray a definite period in Both buildings were built by the Pfleger family between 1897-1899.The elder Pflegers, as do the classical porch treatments and general wall fenestration.The house at 216 were wholesalersof shoes and related leather products.The Erkenbrecker Cluster pos- Cincinnati Directories, Cincinnati Historical Society UMT References _ state 11.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003072, 31 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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