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
“The Park Flats are an apartment building in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1904, the flats are a four-story brick building with an unusual mix of architectural styles.”
Wikipedia article Park Flats, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.83001986- 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 6,441 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Park Flats between 1819 and
1975: 3,338 Fungi, 1,736 Animalia, 930 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 Park Flats: 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
1,988 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
The eight three-story bay windows, which terminate at the Single family homes, many now multi-family, and large apartment buildings the entrances. no ornamentation. letter appearing on a shield motif in the fanlights.Above the paneled round paneled stone pilasters which flank the doors.T The doorways are capped with of opalescent glass. almost like a cornice, with moldings crowning it.l The upper beltcourse has The foyers have colored The building is crowned by a heavy entablature composed decorated with a keystone. arch of the doorways is a stone panel in which the word "Park" is inscribed. stories high.i Both elevations have three open paneled balconies, one per line Park Avenue to the west and south of the Park Apartments. down within approximately four feet of the door.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Mayer Realty and Building Co.,which primarily developed single-family houses ted close to the largest and most important commercial area in Walnut Hills streetcars on Gilbert Avenue, two blocks to their jobs downtown.The The design of the Park Apartments successfully combines the functional con- builaing's architectural design is a successful blend of the functional in Chicago which was the most visible cause, although not the only sidents of the apartments could either walk to work close by or board the Areas of Significance-Check and justify below and duplexes in the Walnut Hills and Avondale areas.Although the Park bay windows which reach to the top of the building and join with the cornice Ideals at the Turn of the 20th Century, William H. Jordy, 1976.
in a manner similar to Holabird and Roche's Tacoma Building (l887-1889). not known) -commerce - - prehistoric - art _archeology-prehistoric x architecture - exploration/settlement The Park Apartments is significant as an example of a local adaptation of classicism of the early 20th century, in a residential building. It was the Columbian Exposition of 1893 The "White City's" overwhelmingly classical Building. Apartments were an early project for Mayer, he was certainly aware of the in the city directory) bear out this statement. 1600-1699 transportation philosophy politics/government The residents comprised delineation of its construction. siderations of the Chicago Commercial style with the popular aesthetic of community planning in the demise of this style.
Commercial style was at its height in the 1880's and l890's.Architectural 1.P.73, AMERICAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR ARCHITECTS:Progressive and Academic 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83001986, 21 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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