Built in 1897. 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 Salvage Corps worked to save and protect the structure and its contents while the city fire department concentrated on rescuing persons from the burning structure and extinguishing the flames. The Salvage Corps provided this service to all property owners without charge, whether they were insured or not.”
Wikipedia article Underwriters Salvage Corps (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1897 · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.82003589- 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 5,850 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Underwriters Salvage Corps between 1819 and
1975: 2,849 Fungi, 1,705 Animalia, 947 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 Underwriters Salvage Corps: 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
1,623 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
stories, rectangular 99' x 25', constructed of stretcher bond, dark The raised ashlar foundation, belt course, and sandstone - good ment with lighted semi-eliptical window surmounting a trabeated window The interior of the building originally had a functional layout commercial functions that have used the building. SALVAGE CORPS accentuates the window treatment.A rectangular sandstone date plate, front facade. A low parapet wall with coping and rectangular panels accentuates interior cornice accentuates the first floor treatment. arrangement flanked by 1/1double hung simple windows.A sandstone unknown date. sandstone lintels over a semicircular lighted transom and 2/2 double with east side bay entrance leading to the basement level and followed glass double door and large lighted transom.
The first floor is composed of a recessed central bay The brackets The Underwriters Salvage Corps building is three and one half sash windows.The only decorative detail isa corbel band supporting The east bay is open and Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - archeology-historic . law - sculpture . music _ 1900 _ communications Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) their operation was used as the format for the legislation. 1600-1699 1700-1799 engineering invention economics 1400-1499 transportation education literature industry humanitarian Period military politics/government theater science 8. Significance retail and professional businesses until the Salvation Army purchased it affirm its significance within Cincinnati's central business district.
the insurance underwriting industry in Cincinnati because it housed the Utilizing horse drawn wagons, fire fighting equipment and canvas covers, For a number of years thereafter, the building housed various small for the recognition and-organization of corporations for.the purpose owner is desirous of continuing this effort to place the building into - conservation of discovering and preventing fires and of saving property and life from In 1902,the Ohio Legislature passed enabling legislation allowing Specific dates from fire and water damage. needs and the operation was moved to more modern and larger facilities.
- architecture By 1925,the building which housed the Corps did not meet.their social/ - art - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric _ landscape architecture - religion _ agriculture X 1800-1899 X commerce As an adjunct to the Cincinnati Fire Department, the Underwriters reduce claims and loss of property by fire. primary attention was given to protecting goods, machinery, and buildings constructed by William Schuberth, a local carpenter and builder. Earlier in 1960.
Builder/Architect William Schuberth of efforts that were initiated in 1882 by local insurance companies 1500-1599 1897 exploration/settlement philosophy The present Salvage Corps building is significant for its historic association with The Corps building was specifically constructed in 1897 to house by which lives and property were protected and insurance claims reduced.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003589, 14 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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