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 Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage are two historic houses in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. They have together been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since April 29, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage, 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.
National Register reference number.82003583- 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 6,088 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage between 1819 and
1975: 2,975 Fungi, 1,838 Animalia, 926 Plantae, 298 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 Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage: 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
2,341 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 two buildings, 333and 341 Lafayette Avenue, are located in the Clifton Farm which of the former McAlpin estate. features was the use of erratic boulders in the construction of the main wall supporting east porch, which did not affect the roofline; enclosing the breezeway as a small eating area, and remodeling the basement with a door onto the patio. of wall surfaces, a stone foundation, brick on the first floor and shingle on the gable dormer on the west facade, a smaller dormer gable and four tall chimneys enhance the roofline. The interior plan contains a central hall and rooms radiate out from the interior spaces connect to one anothre, in a horseshoe pattern around a formal central entire circulation flow of the house and a key element to the architectural design.
rear of the acre lot. The Industries of Cincinnati, 1886. 7. Description Condition Check one attached to the house by enclosing the breezeway.The interior retains the original on the upper stories encompasses casement windows in the framing pattern.The gable The building is designed with stone on the first floor with an arched recessed entrance and an arched window with diamond-shaped clear leaded glass.The mixed wall treatment and four tall chimneys extend from the shingle roof.An enclosed one story porch Alterations made by the previous owner have been few and have not affected the integrity with the Women's City Club directly across the street from both properties on the site .unexposed and creates an arched recessed upper balcony.
(in one paragraph) 1888 respectively, the two houses vividly demonstrate Plympton's mastering of late harmony between dwelling and landscape, as evidenced through the extensive use of dark blend of foreign and domestic influences, served as progenitors to Plympton's striking reached full bloom in Plympton's design for A. D. Fisher in 1892. Surprisingly, little brief but productive association with Edwin Buddemeyer and James Trowbridge, Plympton study of Plympton and his designs has not been written, nor has an assessment nomination now seems to be a remote possibility, there is little rationale in delaying approval of this nomination. design. 1700-1799 1500-1599 1600-1699 engineering humanitarian exploration/settlement Period conservation 1900- 8.
Significance ILucien's mother and father spelled their last name Plimpton. nineteenth century residential building design. His distinct manner engendered a subtle (1881-1898),yet fewer than 10 of his principle works have been identified. During a Specific dates 1886-1888 NOTE:It has been suggested these two properties be tabled until a thematic nomination The H.C.Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage are significant as they represent George McAlpin.Apparently they welcomed Plympton's artistic handling of suburban house mercantile class, and none were more representative than the wealthy Harry Hulbert and became one of the city's leading exponents of Swiss Chalet and Alpine architecture.
_literature - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - landscape architecture - religion - archeology-historic _art woods, coarse textures, and natural hues. Specifically, the timber and boulder wall organic,somewhat pastoral theme is also presented, though quite differently, on the in Cincinnati.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003583, 16 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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