National Register of Historic Places
Over-the-Rhine Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
The record
- Listed
- June 13, 2014
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 308-322, 500-550 Reading Rd., 222 W. 12th St., 1208, 1416-1430, 1544, 1600, 1628, 1900 Central Pkwy., Cincinnati
- County
- Hamilton
- State
- Ohio
- Contributing resources
- 20 buildings
- Coordinates
- 39.11595, -84.52255
- Reference number
- 14000337
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The story
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The Over-the-Rhine Historic District (Boundary Increase) is a historic district of 20 contributing buildings in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, listed in 2014 to expand the Over-the-Rhine Historic District first listed in 1983. Its buildings were built mainly from about 1850 to 1941, in industrial and commercial styles such as Industrial Italianate and Moorish Revival.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with state-level significance in architecture, commerce, industry and European ethnic heritage; its period of significance ran from 1840 to 1941, which includes a building dated 1941.
Physical character
Walls are brick, limestone and structural clay tile on limestone foundations with terracotta and stone coping. Facades have corbelled brick cornices and arched brick coursing, with steel windows on stone sills; one building's Moorish Revival front carries limestone stars and a limestone entry. In 1923 the Cincinnati Association for the Welfare of the Blind removed horse stalls and flooring and reconfigured the interior walls of one building's first floor, and a one-story addition went up in 1961.
Historical context
One building was built as the Proctor Apartments in 1915 and was renamed the Parkway Apartments that same year, and another later housed Melbro Color Services' printing business from 1968 to 2010.