Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1983. 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
“East Walnut Hills Firehouse is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on February 17, 1983. It is in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood.”
Wikipedia article East Walnut Hills Firehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1886 · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.83001980- 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 6,594 specimens
collected within 10 miles of East Walnut Hills Firehouse between 1819 and
1975: 3,337 Fungi, 1,891 Animalia, 929 Plantae, 385 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 19 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
5 workings within 5 miles of East Walnut Hills Firehouse: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Tin, Lead, Antimony. 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
1,890 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
Windows on the side elevation are similarly enriched with rectangular 7. Description first floor is supported by a concrete post and slab system. Check one with limestone trim.The building is neo-Romanesque in style with The building is a load bearing masonry building the first floor stone lintels on the first floor and round arched openings on the - ruins The front facade contains two that have been bricked in. second story. Additional decoration includes a spandrel panel of saw- muntins.These windows are outlined with some arches and quoining. Major interior features include.the mahogany stained stairs, fireman paneled walls and a corbeled cornice. tooth brick and the city seal in stone.on the west elevation.
is a two-and-a-half story 2x7bay detached brick building of common bond 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) By the mid 19th century, the city had spread from the basin area to the additional fire houses in the outlying areas and, in 1868, the first house was the eighth suburban firehouse, housing Fire Co. No. 23 and Annual Report of that same year, Chief Engineer Lewis Wisbey called horse stalls were removed in the early 1900s, most of the other which drops from a small structure on the roof to the basement (photo #4), 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 1500-1599 communications commerce The Period education military literature law transportation agriculture Specific dates social/ humanitarian surrounding hills and the horses had great difficulty hauling the heavy architecture and reflects the suburban development of Cincinnati Fire Department during the late 19th century.
Built in 1886,the East Walnut Hills Firehouse is significant both for its fire department in the U.S.,and for its neo-Romanesque styling.The particularly fine mahogany archway leading to the second floor in the attic stairs and paneling - archeology-prehistoric _ community planning association with the Cincinnati Fire Department, the first professional suburban firehouse was built in Mt. Adams. February 4, 1889, the company was reorganized as.
a steam fire company being used for office space and photo processing, was originally a stable Although the features common to firehouses of the day are the original firepoles (photo #2), the large front entry doors (photo #3), a hose drying well firemen's equipment lockers (photo #5), rear stairway to hayloft (photo #6). "stained glass arches, a plaque listing the fire commissioners in office significant architectural features remain intact.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83001980, 20 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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