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
“Shield's Crossing is a complex of buildings in the Hamilton County portion of Loveland, Ohio, United States. It centers on the historic home of Edwin M.”
Wikipedia article Shield's Crossing, 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.82003592- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 2,155 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,155 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Shield's, Edwin M., House between 1850 and
1973: 1,643 Fungi, 229 Animalia, 146 Protozoa, 132 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14753, A. H. W. Povah, A. R. Gaufin 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Shield's, Edwin M., House: 2 plants, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Loveland, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2012: 2 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
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
1,979 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
interior. A decorative porch on the north and west side of the rear block was closed in unexposed deteriorated The complex of seven buildings consists of a main house and six outbuildings of the same Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - archeology-prehistoric - law _ science - agriculture _literature . sculpture _ millitary _ social/ - 1700-1799 _ music X 1800-1899 _ commerce - theater - communications - politics/government _transportation _ other (specify) Specific dates circa 1868 Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Shield's Crossing, built circa 1868, is significant as it represents a cohesive and largely Crossing is important as an early manifestation of suburban migration. After completion of Marietta line described Shield's Crossing: West of the river, and near the railroad bridge is the residence of E. M. and east . . . Fronting the building is an elegant lawn, tastefully laid out with walks and drives, and planted with a variety of thrifty evergreens, shrubs, and flowers. While architectural surveys indicate other examples from this period still exist in and around Loveland, few maintain the integrity of Shield's Crossing. The close association of the main house and its outbuildings is reinforced by a continuity in massing and design.
Similiarly, the six frame outbuildings were tastefully ornamented to complement the main by a local carpenter named Henry Crooks. Subsequently, from 1868-1879, Edwin M. Shield Fulton Foundry outside Cincinnati in 1851. During the Civil War his iron works manufactured Following the Civil War, Johnston was one of three Commissioners appointed by Lincoln directly associated with Johnston's life. served its character as a private residence. In 1979 the house was adapted into a restaurant. (Cincinnati:Nelson and Boles, 1874, p. 116. 1500-1599 1400-1499 engineering invention humanitarian industry education 8.
Significance 1900- - conservation land that Shield became an early supporter of the Mt.Adams Inclined Plane Railroad.This - - economics - prehistoric X architecture - 1600-1699 -art - philosophy Builder/Architect Henry Crooks, Builder unaltered assemblage of nineteenth century suburban architecture. Furthermore, Shield's for some of Cincinnati's leading businessmen. In 1874 a suburban guide published for the house and its original landscaping. Evidence shows the entire complex was built circa 1868 occupied the house he called Christeen. A significant industrialist, Shield established the mortar carriages and ram-boats for the U.S.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003592, 19 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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