Built in 1865 in the Italianate architecture. 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 Bernard Ratterman House is a historic house in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the middle of the nineteenth century to a design by an unknown architect, it has been named one of the neighborhood's best examples of Italianate architecture.”
Wikipedia article Bernard Ratterman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1865, Italianate architecture · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.82003584- 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 5,849 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ratterman, Bernard, House between 1819 and
1975: 2,872 Fungi, 1,707 Animalia, 921 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Ratterman, Bernard, House: 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
3,558 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
in front of the main facade. the building up to code. 7. Description Condition ruins deteriorated date rectangular windows. motif pendant and bracketed lug sills. The upper story detail is composed of decorate brackets, turned column The side facades are composed of simple standstone lintels and The first floor exhibits a sandstone stair and stoop treatment leading The raised water table with stone course is pierced by small This building is an asymetrical, 18' x 70', 3 bay, 2 1/2 story common bond brick distinctive example of Italianate architecture. lug sills and common bond brick. The second floor window treatment is identical to the first floor.
atop a typically Italianate styled door with paired semicircular headed compound arched sandstone lintel exhibits a decorative leaf motif at rehabilitated to allow for a better utilization of space and to bring are flanked bylighted eliptical windows in the frieze. Check one The interior exhibits aside hall plan and the rooms were recently - unexposed The window treatment is 1/1 double hung with compound A decorative wrought iron fence rests atop a low retaining wall by rectangular capitals with a mixed bas-relief motif.A semicircular The moderate gable roof has a slight parapet with stone coping and the keystone. Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric _ conservation _ law . science _ economics _ literature .
sculpture _ education - social/ - engineering - music X 1800-1899 - industry - politics/government _ invention other (specify) Specific dates C. 1865 Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) stone window trim, bracketed lug sills and detailed cornice treatment scale, and architecturally significant buildings and contributes to owners numerous times and at an unknown time was converted 1600-1699 commerce 1700-1799 communications architecture 1400-1499 1500-1599 apartments. transportation 8. Significance theater humanitarian Period agriculture distinctive streetscape. House is an excellent example of Italianate architecture exhibiting in extremely limited distribution. distinctive elements associated with the style and fine craftsmanship. Tax Act as it relates to historic buildings.
1900- Identified in the Cincinnati Historic Inventory as contributing The building is found in close association with similar period, exhibits distinctive characteristics associated with the Italianate during which time he was employed in various white collar activities. with the Secretary of Interior's Rehabilitation Standards and the today.when it was sold in 1928 by his heirs, the building changed in.c.1865.He and his family resided in it for a number of years military In building was sold to owner of a picture -art - exploration/settlement - - philosophy frame, molding and mirror company.
The firm is still in operation Builder/Architect Unknown It is believed that Bernard Ratterman had the building constructed and foliated motifs are significant stylized elements since they appear style.The addition of fine execution for the stone trim by skilled Constructed in building with its use of semicircular UMT References March 19, 1860 (Plat Book 2, Page 75) List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries _ state November 1, 1981 12.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003584, 23 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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