Built in 1888 in the Queen Anne style architecture in the United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. 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
“Francis Hospital is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on April 19, 1984. Francis Hospital for Incurables by the Poor Sisters of St.”
Wikipedia article St. Francis Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1888, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.84003714- 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 5,759 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Francis Hospital between 1819 and
1975: 2,792 Fungi, 1,663 Animalia, 957 Plantae, 296 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
4 workings within 5 miles of St. Francis Hospital: 3 past producers, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
2,491 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
section with hip roof featuring paired and single gable dormers symmetrically spaced been replaced with 6/6 double hung windows with temporary wood infill between window and lintels. The lintels are flat except on third floor which have segmental arch limestone base which features the main entranceway, double doors with round arched by a cupola. The main lobby of the building has marble floors, marble stairway, and marble wainscot. dominate the chapel with additional stained glass features appearing at the entrance and in several other windows and skylights. Attached is a site plan showing the major building phases. Building l is the main as the need determined more space and money was available.
Phases 4 and 5 were built were in the 1890's and maintained the integrity of the original style. The more recent additions were to the rear of the building and the basic structure has remained intact. With the elevation of the site and the building being constructed into the hillside, the front of Building 1 at 4 1/2 stories forms the focal point and demonstrates the large mass of the building. St. Francis, located some 3 miles northwest of downtown Cincinnati, was built on the neighborhood known as South Fairmaint and located nearby is Hamilton County's first buildings of the turn of the century vintage. 7.
Description ruins unexposed unaltered fair Check one of brick with stone banding.The irregular shaped building has a twelve bay center Condition prison which still standsas does St.Bonaventure Church which represents Romanesque excellent 4 1/2 story structure with phases 2 and 3 being added as the final elements of the main .deteriorated X good central pavilion exhibits a statue of St. Frances within a niche and a hip roof topped way forming the central focus highlighted by a stained glass skylight.
(in one paragraph) St. Francis was founded by the Sisters of the Poor to care for the chronically ill and to any sick or injured person, St. Francis has been a pioneer in providing such services as a physical rehabilitation department, a nursing school, a blood bank for rare soldiers from World War I, and being the only hospital in Cincinnati that aided the continuance of this special service. The Sisters of the Poor had originally built St. Marys Hospital in the west end of to relieve the always overcrowded St. Mary's Hospital. The site, was located in the first major valley access to the growing western suburbs. Although topographically difficult, the site was an ideal location for construction of the facility.
The building dominates its site and displays distinct characteristics of the Queen Anne style in its polychromatic surface treatment of brick with stone banding, cupola, turrets Christian Moerlein Brewery, German National Bank and Bavaria Building. The architect, George W. Rapp, was a well known Cincinnati architect and was also the cognized in an 1886 book on "The Industries in Cincinnati" detailing commercial and residential buildings he designed and noting his specialty in construction of breweries as Cincinnati's oldest practicing architect. 1500-1599 philosophy communications economics 1888 commerce 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 transportation invention industry archeology-historic engineering education Builder/Architect Period music X_1800-1899 law exploration/settlement theater 8.
Significance Other special --politics/government social/humanitarian areas of service in Cincinnati and surrounding area.The building literature Specific dates prehistoric .conservation humanitarian George W. Rapp laboratory and clinic under Dr.George Sperti (Institutum Divi Thomae)was opened, Cincinnati in 1858.Their construction of St.Francis recognized the need of an 1900- style asrenderedbya prominant late 19th century Cincinnati architect,George W.Rapp. military is significant under Criterion C as a distinct Cincinnati example of the Queen Anne ..science community planning landscape architecture St.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84003714, 36 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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