{"nrhp_refnum":"08000625","name":"Verona Apartments","other_names":["Ham-866-30"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2356 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.12439002900004,"lon":-84.48604784299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-07-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story, U-shaped brick apartment building at 2356 Park Avenue in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, built in 1906 on a 1.44-acre lot with a landscaped courtyard.","why_significant":"The building is significant under Criterion A for community development as one of the first large-scale apartment developments in Cincinnati's suburban neighborhoods, built by the real estate firm Thomas J. Emery's Sons. Under Criterion C it is a well-preserved example of eclectic turn-of-the-20th-century apartment design, combining Neoclassical, Renaissance, Jacobean and Tudor Revival elements.","narrative":"Completed in 1906, this four-story, U-shaped brick apartment building on Park Avenue in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills holds 49 apartments arranged in eight equal sections, each with its own sandstone portico entrance. Towers, projecting bays, turrets and tiers of arched sleeping porches give it a lively skyline, and the apartments face a landscaped courtyard. Inside, lobbies have cherry staircases, wainscoting and patterned tile floors. Thomas J. Emery's Sons, the city's leading builder of apartment housing in the early 1900s, constructed it along a transit line so tenants could ride streetcars downtown. Its listing rests on two points: its role in the spread of large, high-density apartment living into Cincinnati's hilltop neighborhoods, and its architecture, which blends Neoclassical, Renaissance, Jacobean and Tudor Revival details so that the large building suggests a fine single-family home. It remains little altered and well preserved.","period_of_significance":"1906","architect_builder":"Steinkamp, Joseph; Thomas Emery's Sons, builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Neo-classical Revival; Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and fully occupied; the fourth level, originally servants' quarters, has not been in use for many years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.16802-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/08000625.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000625/7eeaedabb6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000625/7eeaedabb6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Verona_Apartments,_Walnut_Hills,_Cincinnati,_OH_(47128037882).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Verona_Apartments,_Walnut_Hills,_Cincinnati,_OH_(47128037882).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989201","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138349316"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/verona-apartments-08000625/"}