{"nrhp_refnum":"11000364","name":"Krippendorf Estate","other_names":["Krippendorf, Carl H. &amp","Mary Rosen Greene, Estate","Cincinnati Nature Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4949 Tealtown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perintown","county":"Clermont County","state":"OH","lat":39.12456172100005,"lon":-84.2476040804477,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 175-acre former country estate near Perintown, Clermont County, Ohio, centered on a Shingle Style lodge built circa 1899 for Carl H. and Mary Rosan Greene Krippendorf, with outbuildings and a designed landscape. It is now part of Cincinnati Nature Center.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the estate as significant for its architecture, since the Lodge is a Shingle Style house designed by the Cincinnati firm Desjardins & Hayward. It is also significant in Landscape Architecture for the woodland and formal gardens created by the Krippendorfs, which were published in articles and recognized by the Garden Club of America.","narrative":"Set on 175 acres southeast of Milford, the Krippendorf Estate began as a country retreat for Carl H. and Mary Rosan Greene Krippendorf. Its centerpiece is the Krippendorf Lodge, a two-story wood-frame house built circa 1899 with a limestone foundation, shingle siding, a wraparound porch and a low, sweeping roof. Cincinnati architects Desjardins & Hayward designed it, and the interior has oak floors, pine paneling, exposed beams and varied fireplaces. Around the driveway loop stand an ice house, a water tower, a cottage used as laundry and maids' quarters, and a three-car garage. A caretaker house, a barn dated 1907 and a stone pump house stand elsewhere on the grounds. The surrounding landscape includes woodland paths, stone steps and bridges, planting walls, cold frames, remnants of a formal garden, and thousands of daffodils. The estate is considered important for its Shingle Style architecture and for its designed landscape, which gained recognition from the Garden Club of America. Cincinnati Nature Center has owned it since 1966.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Desjardins & Hayward (Lodge, and probably the water tower)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Shingle Style; also Prairie School and Tudor Revival listed","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Lodge is used for events on the ground floor and offices on the second; the estate is part of Cincinnati Nature Center, owned by it since 1966.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.538662-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/11000364.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000364/02b76b4168-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000364/02b76b4168-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krippendorf_Estate_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krippendorf_Estate_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987146","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137608721"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clermont-county/krippendorf-estate-11000364/"}