{"nrhp_refnum":"73001454","name":"Clovernook","other_names":["Cary Cottage"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7000 Hamilton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.22001277700008,"lon":-84.54890093999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cary Cottage, known as Clovernook, is a modest two-story painted brick house with a T-shaped plan at 7000 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. It was built about 1832 for Robert and Elizabeth Jessup Cary and their children.","why_significant":"The cottage was the home of poets Alice and Phoebe Cary, whose published verse earned national attention and praise from Poe and Whittier. It is also tied to Georgia and Florence Trader, who turned it into Clovernook, a home and training center for blind women, in 1903.","narrative":"Built about 1832 as a farmhouse for Robert and Elizabeth Jessup Cary and their nine children, this two-story painted brick cottage on Hamilton Avenue in Cincinnati has a T-shaped plan. The brick was fired on site. The middle section is oldest, and the front portion was added about ten years later. A two-story south piazza, a large cooking hearth and the original stairway survive. Two daughters, Alice and Phoebe Cary, began publishing poetry young and gained national notice after inclusion in an 1849 anthology. They called the home \"Clovernook\" in their writings, and later moved to New York. In 1903 the property was dedicated as a home for the worthy blind, led by sisters Georgia and Florence Trader with support from William S. Procter. Weaving and printing operations there provided employment for blind people, and the printing press became the largest private operation of its kind in the country by 1922.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (c.1832)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in good condition, though altered. Used for board meetings, and trustees were considering interior changes and uses such as educational visits.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.913243-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001454.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001454/577e1e359f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001454/577e1e359f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"The original uploader was Rdikeman at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cary_cottage_3380.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Rdikeman at English Wikipedia.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cary_cottage_3380.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989215","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovernook","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5135980"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/clovernook-73001454/"}