Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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 Gilbert Row, as of 2005 often referred to as Emery Row, is a group of historic rowhouses in the southern part of the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Composed of six individual small houses and a more substantial structure designed as a commercial building, the row was built by the real estate firm of Thomas Emery's Sons according to a design by the Steinkamp Brothers architectural firm.”
Wikipedia article Gilbert Row, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.82003579- 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 6,288 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Gilbert Row between 1819 and
1975: 3,241 Fungi, 1,705 Animalia, 926 Plantae, 365 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 Gilbert Row: 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
2,337 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
preceded these 1920's additions across the facade is not clear.Gilbert Avenue was earthen embankments with steps as access to the porches. Gilbert Row contains 7 connected brick buildings.Six of the buildings are 2 stories and have low, gabled, roofs with projecting dormers. One end building is 3½ stories with a Although the building has suffered the loss of most of its window sash, all other owner intends to rehabilitate the Row utilizing the 1976 Tax Reform Act. What exactly cut down when the streetcar lines were added in the 1880s, so there may have been small unexposed ruins Areas of Significance-Check and justify below . agriculture . sculpture . military and Bros. possible architects Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Gilbert Row is an unusual example of Queen Anne architecture rarely found in row house form in Cincinnati. Consisting of six townhouses and a larger building with a cast iron store- front, it was built by the Thomas Emery's Sons Real Estate Company in 1889 and reflected the tions" refer to indoor plumbing which physical evidence indicates was original to the build- ing. Builder, Thomas Emery Jr. (1830-1906) was an abolitionist and civic activist who used are believed to have been the architects for Gilbert Row. A 1909 advertisement states that "Thomas Emery's Sons employed one firm of architects, Steinkamp & Bro.
exclusively." The ad further comments that "by doing this, every apartment house erected by them was an was the anchor for the surrounding Nassau-Eden neighborhood, all of which has been determined preservation officials, the boundaries of said district were modified expressly to include the property in question (see attached). Beginning in the late 1880s and throughout the 1890s, Thomas Emery bought investment properties in Walnut Hills and started erecting homes and apartment complexes. buildings he constructed here became the model of residential property in Cincinnati apartment in his Walnut Hills development and set the trend for his later work in the economics 1500-1599 music neighborhood.
industry engineering theater invention humanitarian education literature social/ conservation 1900- law 8. Significance Specific dates 1700-1799 - art other (specify) - - communications -archeology-prehistoric - community planning landscape architecture - religion - archeology-historic X architecture X 1800-1899 exploration/settlement - - philosophy and very often rent apartments without even having seen the plan, knowing that the best eligible for the Register of Historic Places. Indeed, at the request of State and Federal 1889 commerce 1600-1699 transportation 1400-1499 Period art prehistoric .politics/government recognizing "color prejudice," such as the local Orphan's Asylum.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003579, 18 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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