Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1985. 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 Frederick Lunkenheimer House is a historic residence on the east side of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1883, it is a brick building with a stone foundation, a slate roof, and smaller elements of sandstone.”
Wikipedia article Frederick Lunkenheimer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.85001690- 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 6,326 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lunkenheimer, Frederick, House between 1819 and
1975: 3,272 Fungi, 1,711 Animalia, 926 Plantae, 365 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Lunkenheimer, Frederick, House: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
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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
2,081 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 side facades. The second floor of the main facade has a recessed The projecting north bay has narrow l/l win- The north facadeis exhibits the same detail as The typanum has a recessed dateplate with the year l883 and sand- The front facade has a sandstone stair that leads to Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric - archeology-historic _ conservation _economics - sculpture X architecture _ education .military _ social/ .music X 1800-1899 - theater _ 1900- X industry - politics/government _ transportation _ invention - other (specify) Criterion B & C An exuberance of architectural detail is found above the cornice at the the building blends with its scale and mass to create an unusual one of a kind design. Mr.
Lunkenheimer lived in the building from 1883 to 1889, a period 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 commerce 1400-1499 communications humanitarian agriculture Specific dates 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Company in l864 with the manufacture of high pressure steam valves used on of whimsy is the addition of the word INGELHEIM in stone below a segmental Constructed in l883, the building uses a variety of detail taken from enclosure at the porch and the large addition at the the -art - landscape architecture_ _ religion _ science valves, gages, pumps, and lubricants. are expressed through the use of asymmetrical facades, decorative wall Additionally, the dis- The mix of detail on Frederick Lunkenheimer (1825-1889) established the Cincinnati Brass steamboat engines. Shortly thereafter, the company Builder/Architect unknown significant for its association with the man who founded the Lunkenheimer Valve Company, a manufacturer of specialized steam valves.
The company the decorative belvedere, and mixed lintel treatment. Queen Anne details dormers, belt and string courses, and raised ashlar foundation. The decor- pedimented lintels. The asymmetrical main facade, mixed lintel treatment, Although the original integrity has been somewhat diminished by the Cincinnati was the world center for industrial valve manufacturing and was Company is still in operation today, however the original family does not 1883 philosophy Period exploration/settlement pediment. Most notable Ingelheim was the birthplace of Mr.Lunkenheimer in Germany. different styles to express its design. the headquarters for other manufacturers besides Lunkenheimer. Each is somewhat different in design and detail.
Throughout the following years his company refined the value and received several patents; one for a regrinding arangement for Italianate influences are found on The Frederick Lunkenheimer House is significant as an excellent ex- large and small wall dormers that pierce the truncated hip slate roof. to articulate its type of design and period of construction.It is also Edmund became President of the company. tinctive belvedere adds to the upper story design.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85001690, 12 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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