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
“Young Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati is a historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Young Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati, 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.82003591- 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 5,847 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Young Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati between 1819 and
1975: 2,846 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 Young Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati: 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
2,766 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
on the top floor give this building a Neo-Gothic flavor. The present appearance is as originally constructed which accentuates the limestone base surface of the first four floors with the upper level brickwork crowned by the (Florentine style). Windows on lower floors articulated with cut stone trim, Gothic construction. Overall building condition is good with only minor deterioration. The main lobby has terrazo floor, marble wainscot, elaborate detailed brass doors, sculptered plaster ceiling, and rookwood drinking fountain. Ornate wrought iron The chapel features stone arch trimmed Gothic windows with stained glass. All renovation work will maintain the basic features and materials in the building.
The lobby will be rearranged to provide separate entrances for the residential tower and for the YWCA. The meeting rooms and offices will be redecorated but with only will be in replacement of mechanical systems. unexposed Condition 7. Description brick pattern. arches, and keystones. The structure has not been altered in any substantial manner since its original _ruins _ deteriorated Neo - Gothic design of the twelfth floor. Finely detailed stonework with wrought and bronze doors with carved stone sculpture above and ornate bronze light fixtures The first four floors used limestone exterior materials and will be unchanged in the where necessary.
The 12th floor exterior is particularly ornate, using brick with railing rises to the second floor and surrounds the stairway at the second level. floors have Tudor fireplaces with sculptered stones and ornate ceilings. The gymnasium holds a balcony suspended from plate girders encased in decorated and molded plaster.
(in one paragraph) The YWCA is one of the few Neo-Gothic commercial structures in downtown Cincinnati, and cornice on the exterior and in the ceiling plaster and metallic and ceramic fixtures The growth of the YWCA in the early part of the century along with the inadequate size and services at the existing building led to the campaign for the new building which visiting the National Headquarters of the YWCA in New York and analyzing the design, functions, and size of new YWCA's in other major cities in the United States. Mr.
Charles Taft, son of President William Howard Taft, and an active civic leader and of 1926 the YWCA Building Campaign raised $772,000 in pledges from nearly 13,000 The grand opening of this noteworthy new structure in downtown Cincinnati on March 11, the stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters and other artisans and workers along with been given in this way. The YWCA has fulfilled extensive social service needs in the Cincinnati community. The present building provided major functions during the depression for training classes and WPA projects along with its residence and recreational facilities which were heavily used. During World War II the Y opened its USO Center where 12,430 members of the U.S. military Friendly Relations Commission which is now the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission.
1400-1499 1700-1799 communications 1500-1599 1800-1899 1600-1699 economics commerce industry engineering education humanitarian Builder/Architect literature theater philosophy invention 8. Significance sculpture prehistoric conservation law Specific dates visited its lounge in the summer of 1943.It cooperated with the Red Cross in organizing citizens of Cincinnati. in the interior. X 1900- -archeology-prehistoric community planning later Mayor, was instrumental in negotiations for the present location.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003591, 30 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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