{"nrhp_refnum":"12000393","name":"Sedamsville Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Steiner, Delhi, & Fairbanks Aves., Sedam, & Edwin Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.09086771400004,"lon":-84.57098386916061,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hillside residential historic district in the Sedamsville neighborhood of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, about three miles west of downtown. It covers Steiner, Delhi, Sedam, Fairbanks and Edwin streets and holds 175 resources, mostly buildings from 1880 to 1900.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for illustrating the character of Cincinnati's hillside immigrant neighborhoods, with narrow streets, closely built houses and a parish church at the summit. It keeps a large group of vernacular house types, including townhouses, shotgun houses, mansard cottages, gallery houses and tenements. The form says it retains enough integrity to convey this significance.","narrative":"Sedamsville Village is a compact hillside neighborhood in Cincinnati, rising above River Road about three miles west of downtown. Narrow streets climb the slope, houses sit close to the street, and a church crowns the summit, giving the area the look of a European village. The district holds 175 resources, 155 of them contributing, along with a site made up of stone walls and public steps. Most buildings date from 1880 to 1900 and show the work of local builders, probably linked to the German-American community. House types include I-houses, side-passage townhouses, false-front shotgun houses, mansard cottages, gallery houses and tenements, in Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne styles. The nomination presents the district as a clear example of Cincinnati's immigrant hillside neighborhoods, where the parish church and school were community focal points. Exteriors have changed little, though about half the buildings are now vacant and some have been lost to demolition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mostly unidentified local builders, likely tied to the German-American community; few buildings other than the church and school appear to have been architect-designed.","architectural_style":"Mid-19th century Greek Revival; Late Victorian (Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, High Victorian Gothic, Romanesque); Colonial Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Approximately half of the buildings in the district are empty. Most vacant buildings are intact on the exterior and count as contributing, while a few gutted or dilapidated ones are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.607896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/12000393.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989051","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/sedamsville-village-historic-district-12000393/"}