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
“Pilgrim Presbyterian Church is a historic church building in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, near the Ida Street Viaduct. Built in 1886, it is a Gothic Revival structure built primarily of brick.”
Wikipedia article Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, 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.80003074- 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 6,227 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pilgrim Presbyterian Church between 1819 and
1975: 3,186 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 Pilgrim Presbyterian Church: 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
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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
1,586 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
The Pilgrim Chapel, built in 1886, is located next to the Art Deco Ida are four double hung windows with a border of small square colored lights of the building is the parish house or manse. It is a simple two story brick Condition unexposed ruins belt and string coursing mark the horizonal divisions on the facade. The front forward carpentry with its braces and decorative wallpieces. Check one The interior of the Pilgrim Chapel remains much the same as it did when it transom and boarding up the openings in the center gable.
text and decorations.The pulpit is the focal point of the interior behind the First Presbyterian Church.The pews are divided bya partion dow the which is distinguished by its unusual central bell gable tower and symmet- center with aisles to the side.The timber roof is a fine example of straight- alterations to the Pilgrim Chapel consisted of replacing the original entrance door with a simple wooden double door, inscribing 'Pilgrim Chapel' above the x good opening in the bell tower and above the second story paired windows and date side bays display stained glass windows with arched window surrounds. There The Pilgrim Chapel is a rectangular plan two story brick church building rical fenestration.
The steeply pitched roof and bell tower are covered the two rose windows contained in the center gable.Stone quoins and stone with shingles.Gothic Revival elements are exhibited in the pointed arched chandeliers with spotlights for better lighting and painting over the stencillec which are chairs and a section for the choir.The piano was a donation from on both the North and South facades.Attached to the South-East rear portion residence with a projecting side bay and Greek Revival porch.The exterior Areas of Significance - Check and justify below landscape architecture X religion .
(in one paragraph) was a dominate influence in Cincinnati, since a majority of the founders of the City were Presbyterians. From the beginning,Cincinnati was a mission- under the charge of a larger congregation, all but Pilgrim Chapel have First Presbyterian Church and from Mount Adams succeeded in raising sidered important because it resulted from the joint efforts of Catholics division for $2750.00. The Pilgrim Chapel's location made it accessible as a midway point between the downtown churches and the Lane Theological men. Charles E.
Iliff, a noted Cincinnati contractor and Mount Adams resident, commerce 1700-1799 transportation humanitarian conservation engineering music education Period science theater industry Specific dates military communications politics/government sculpture 1900- social/ law 8. Significance many of the church members were moving to the hilltops.A committee from The Pilgrim Chapel is significant as an embodiment of nineteenth century funds to erect the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church.This undertaking was con- literature the stone for the foundation of the manse.
and the organization is another indication that the Pilgrim Chapel was used as a preaching station.The architectural integrity of the Pilgrim Chapel disbanded or were demolished.Dr.Frank prominant minister of the Mount Adams Incline Plane could have been a contributing factor in century church which began as a mission.Seven mission churches organized as an early preaching station in the Presbyterian Church.Presbyterianism is finely displayed by the skill of the local prominant builder and crafts- Eclectic architecture in Cincinnati and a representative of the chapel the decision of the Presbytery Society to move the Pilgrim to the top of Builder/Architect Charles E.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003074, 11 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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