Built in 1926 in the Tudor Revival architecture. 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
“Lillybanks is a historic residence in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1926, it is a stone building with a slate roof.”
Wikipedia article Lillybanks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1926, Tudor Revival architecture, by Q66309365 · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.83001982- 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 6,640 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lillybanks between 1819 and
1975: 3,475 Fungi, 1,781 Animalia, 935 Plantae, 398 Protozoa, 31 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Lillybanks: 3 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, 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
2,063 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
stylized flower is also part of the design.The flower and a quatrefoil design appear on quoined dressed stone architraves and are generally massed in groups of two or four.A This Tudor Revival Style house was completed in 1926.Its basic plan shape is a large segmental arched windows with dressed stone architraves mark three sides of the first treatment.Two round arch porch openings in the kitchen wing have been filled in to wall dormer is more simply treated with a row of four mullioned windows on the first story and a set of two on the second story.The enclosed porch has a parapet gable and a buttress Road to a small street behind the house.This was done because of the development of the Check one In 1982 a window in the western kitchen wing was very sympathetically altered into accommodate the remolding of the kitchen area.The windows in this section are simple with been inherited from his father Nicholas Longworth.In the 1830's and 1840's this property south facade.A large wall dormer and irregularly spaced doors.and windows mark the small round headed windows in the gable as well as the two story bay.
The eastern gabled -deteriorated The plaster band in the coved ceiling of the wood paneled dining room echos the motif roof and a pair of French doors on the eastern facade are on the second story of this wing. hall shared by the enclosed porch entrance. house are divided horizontally into two.sections by stone mullions; the kitchen windows are a dressed stone-rise out of the blue slate roof. .excellent - good . ruins . fair flanked, dressed stone, round headed door. The first story windows of the main part of the Lillybank's property just to the east of the house. A large rampart-like terrace, which floor.
(in one paragraph) of day-lillies, hence the name. The house was built on a slightly larger parcel of land, part of the subdivision of of house, necessitating the move of the driveway from Grandin Road to Crabapple Lane, off Mrs. Swing were born in Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio and were the children of early Trained as a lawyer; a graduate in 1894 from the Cincinnati Law School, Swing practiced Swing died on November 28, 1928. His widow continued to live in the house until her death National Bank Building, the Cincinnati gymnasium and Athletic Club and Grace Episcopal 1500-1599 1600-1699 1400-1499 communications Batavia. humanitarian Period Specific dates agriculture 1700-1799art Ohio.There he was very involved in experimenting with modern methods of agriculture. 1900- 8.
Significance similar age and style, seen inter-related set on winding streets within the subdivision. took over the management of several farms recently bought by his father near Harrison, articulated.The main sections of this house are unaltered from their 1926 appearances. Southern District of Ohio.Mrs.
Swing was the daughter of Judge Allen Trimble Cowen of John Scudder Adkins was the architect for the house.He was well known in Cincinnati placed walls, imparts the air of dignity and privacy characteristic.of this style.Tudor (as well as the New York and Cincinnati Stock Exchange).Because of his agricultural knowledge Swing's opinion on matters concerning grain were highly valued in his firm.In details, such as wall dormers, stone mullioned windows and decorative stone work are well of South Rookwood Drive.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83001982, 18 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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