{"nrhp_refnum":"08001197","name":"Pinecroft","other_names":["Powel Crosley Jr. Estate"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2336 Kipling Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.20296298950004,"lon":-84.56988247026844,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-12-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Invention","Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pinecroft is the Powel Crosley, Jr. estate at 2336 Kipling Avenue in Mount Airy, Cincinnati, Ohio. It has a Tudor Revival mansion built from 1927 to 1928, plus a gateway, garages, a potting house and a 1937 Colonial Revival house.","why_significant":"The estate was the home of Powel Crosley, Jr., the Cincinnati industrialist behind Crosley radio, WLW, the Cincinnati Reds and the Crosley compact car. The mansion was designed by New York architect Dwight James Baum and keeps most of its original materials, layout and craftsmanship. The form argues for significance at the state level.","narrative":"Pinecroft is a 1920s country estate on Kipling Avenue in the Mount Airy area of Cincinnati, built for industrialist Powel Crosley, Jr. Construction began in 1927 to designs by New York architect Dwight James Baum. The 13,334-square-foot Tudor Revival mansion has a reinforced concrete frame, Flemish-bond brick, half-timbering, Indiana limestone trim and a Ludowici tile roof. Inside are carved oak paneling, stone fireplaces, Elizabethan plaster ceilings and hardware by Samuel Yellin. The grounds include a turreted gateway, two garages, a potting house and a 1937 Colonial Revival house built for Crosley's daughter. Crosley made his fortune in radio and broadcasting, owned the Cincinnati Reds, and later produced the Crosley compact car. The estate has lost its gates, greenhouse and formal gardens, and a hospital complex now occupies former farmland to the north. The main house still keeps its massing, room layout, windows and nearly all original materials.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Dwight James Baum (architect of the main house and related structures); architect of the Kess House unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The main house retains most of its original design and materials. The gates are missing, the greenhouse and formal gardens are gone, and the service garage is used as a craft workshop. Current functions are listed as institutional housing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.582252-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/08001197.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001197/544648d1ff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001197/544648d1ff-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinecroft,_Powel_Crosley_Mansion.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinecroft,_Powel_Crosley_Mansion.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989235","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinecroft","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7195470"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/pinecroft-08001197/"}