{"nrhp_refnum":"73001470","name":"Taft Museum","other_names":["Martin Baum House","Sinton Mansion"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"316 Pike St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.102076072000045,"lon":-84.50288992099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-01-29","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1976-01-07","areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A white frame Federal-style mansion at 316 Pike Street in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, built about 1819-20 for Martin Baum and now operated as the Taft Museum.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a highly refined example of Federal architecture, reputed to be the work of Benjamin Latrobe or James Hoban. It was later the home of Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft, who gave the house and their art collection to the people of Cincinnati. William Howard Taft was notified of his 1908 presidential nomination on its portico steps.","narrative":"Built around 1819-20 for Cincinnati capitalist Martin Baum, this white frame mansion on Pike Street is a refined example of the Federal style. A two-story center unit with a Tuscan-columned portico and Greek pediment is flanked by two-story wings on a high basement. An elliptical fanlight with a wheel-spoke pattern tops the entrance, and the design is repeated in seven elliptical second-story windows. A rear porch overlooks a formal garden. The house passed from Baum to his bank, then housed a female seminary, and was bought by Nicholas Longworth in 1830 and sold to David Sinton in 1871. After Charles Phelps Taft married Anna Sinton in 1873 it became the Taft home. William Howard Taft was notified of his 1908 presidential nomination on its portico steps. The Tafts gave the house and their collection of paintings, enamels, porcelains and other works to the public, and it opened as a museum on November 29, 1932, restored from an 1857 color print.","period_of_significance":"19th century; specific date ca. 1820","architect_builder":"Reputed to be Benjamin Latrobe or James Hoban; built for Martin Baum","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored and operated as a museum; condition good, listed as occupied and open to the public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.806053-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001470.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001470/c84d0f1a33-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001470/c84d0f1a33-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Greg Hume (User:Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TaftMuseum.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Hume (User:Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TaftMuseum.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989185","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Museum_of_Art","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7675043"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/taft-museum-73001470/"}