{"nrhp_refnum":"74001515","name":"Westwood Town Center Historic District","other_names":["See Also: Samuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Epworth and Harrison Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.14915659850004,"lon":-84.5988873822581,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A compact town-center historic district in Westwood, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, of about 11.5 acres. It groups seven landmark buildings around the triangular site of the 1880s Westwood Town Hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district holds good examples of Queen Anne, High Victorian Gothic, Jacobethan Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Frank Lloyd Wright Modern and Renaissance Revival architecture, all by important local architects. The buildings also reflect the growth of Westwood from a farm village to a residential suburb, and its religious, educational, governmental and communications history.","narrative":"Westwood's town center in Cincinnati is a small district of seven landmark buildings clustered around the triangular lot of the Westwood Town Hall. The village bought the land in 1884, and the Queen Anne hall, designed by local architects Charles Crapsey and William R. Brown, held village functions and fire equipment. After Westwood was annexed to Cincinnati in 1896, the building passed to the city with the condition that it be kept for community use. It later housed a YMCA, a conservatory of music, theatrical groups and art classes. Around it stand two churches by Samuel Hannaford and Sons, built thirty years apart: the High Victorian Gothic Methodist church of 1896 and the Presbyterian church of 1926. The district also includes a firehouse, a telephone company building, a Jacobethan Revival elementary school and a library. Together they show a range of late nineteenth and early twentieth century building styles and the growth of a farm village into a suburb.","period_of_significance":"1888-1930","architect_builder":"Charles Crapsey and William R. Brown (Town Hall); Samuel Hannaford and Sons (Westwood United Methodist Church and Westwood First Presbyterian Church)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, High Victorian Gothic, Jacobethan Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Classic Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Frank Lloyd Wright Modern","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered. Buildings are in government, commercial, educational and religious use, and the town hall has housed theatrical groups and art classes.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.397521-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001515/7b0f5c4495-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001515/7b0f5c4495-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westwood_town_hall_in_Cincinnati.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westwood_town_hall_in_Cincinnati.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989049","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Town_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7989916"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/westwood-town-center-historic-district-74001515/"}