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 Daniel Thew Wright House is a historic residence in the far western part of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located in the neighborhood of Riverside, it was originally home to lawyer and federal judge Daniel Thew Wright, and it has been named a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.”
Wikipedia article Daniel Thew Wright House, 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.82003590- 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 4,448 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wright, Daniel Thew, House between 1819 and
1975: 1,964 Fungi, 1,441 Animalia, 859 Plantae, 144 Protozoa, 21 Unrecorded, 19 Chromista. 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Wright, Daniel Thew, House: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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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From the nomination file
2,021 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
architectural style. trade is composed of simple rectangular panels, decorative turned room partition. Paired engaged, smooth, rectangular columns with The roof is a bell-cast gable pierced by three large multi-flue 7. Description Condition date unexposed ruins exhibiting distinctive elements associated with the Colonial Revival gabled dormer with palladian window motif pierces the roof. interior entablature treatment separates the first and second floors. The columns support the low pitch roof treatment with wooden entabla- material is beveled wood siding.
This is a symmetrical two and one half story wooden frame raised porch treatment with turned smooth columns supported by a base The first floor is supported by a rock-faced limestone foundation flanked by sidelights and lighted transom iiluminates the interior The overall window treatment is basically 1/1 double hung sash The second floor treatment is composed of a semi-hexagonal bay _fair capitals were of the Ionic order and were removed at an unknown date. ture composed of cornice, dentiled frieze and architrave. either side of the main door exhibit 1/1 double hung sash with simple A decorative projecting off the main facade at its center, originally flanked by On the side facades below the bell-cast, the same column treatment corbeled chimneys.
The east and north composed of cincture, torus, and plinth. Originally, the plaster small rectangular bay that evolves into a small side porch-with with the second floor being supported by square, smooth columns with Ionic capitals appear at the junction of the main and side facades. balcony landing at the east side second floor. Doric capitals. The paired windows balusters and compound handrail. pilasters with simple columns exist.A The balus- ends exhibit a decorative palladian window motif.
(in one paragraph) porch extending the length of the front facade, distinctive elements characteristic blocky massing, fenestration, and wall treatment and of its location and setback from River Road, it still retains an building was constructed from his father, D. Thew Wright, a judge of commerce 1700-1799 1600-1699 1500-1599 communications 1800-1899 1895 education 1400-1499 art Period philosophy industry humanitarian theater music invention science Specific dates 8.
Significance literature The building exhibits the distinctive elements associated with other (specify) Viewed within the context of the suburban community of Riverside, Located within the old Village of Riverside, the Daniel Thew architecture and for its association with Mr.Wright when he served Since the turn of the century, small scale residential development and commuting the short distance to Cincinnati was a common practice. periencing a modest growth of large scale single family residential this building is one of the more prominent examples of late nineteenth as Mayor of the Village of Riverside and practiced law in Cincinnati.
Wright house is significant as an example of Colonial Revival the valley slope, it was constructed at a time when Riverside was ex- followed his father into the legal profession and was admitted to the roof is somewhat exaggerated and out of proportion as is the raised Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. served in this capacity until he resigned in 1914 to enter private balance with a center hall plan at the first floor with rear side "u" - landscape architecture Unknown Constructed in 1895, it is characterized uncommon detail. century architecture. Situated in close proximity to the'Ohio River on further prominence after being appointed by Theodore Roosevelt door surrounds and fireplace mantels is classically inspired.
buildings exhibiting distinctive details and design.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003590, 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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