{"nrhp_refnum":"75001419","name":"Madison-Stewart Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Madison and Stewart Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.15997568600005,"lon":-84.39784221309661,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district at the western edge of the former village of Madisonville, now part of Cincinnati, Ohio, straddling Madison Road and Stewart Avenue. It consists mainly of nineteenth-century single-family houses within about 4 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its good examples of nineteenth-century vernacular buildings. Styles range from the Federal Benjamin Stewart House to the Italianate, Italian Villa and Eastlake houses along Stewart Avenue. It is also tied to the Stewart family and to other local families who built houses there.","narrative":"Madison Road and Stewart Avenue meet at the western edge of what was once the village of Madisonville, now part of Cincinnati. Around that crossing sits a compact district of mostly single-family houses built during the nineteenth century. The earliest and most prominent is the Federal-style Benjamin Stewart House at 5540 Madison Road, a brick building designed by his nephew William Stewart and built from lumber floated down the Ohio River. Nearby, Stewart Avenue holds Italianate houses at 4911, 4912 and 4915, a turreted frame house at 4904, and an Eastlake house at 4916. Brothers Charles and Jonathon Crugar built two of these houses after buying land from Benjamin M. Stewart in 1870. Many homes keep their carved wood mouldings, marble fireplaces and bracketed cornices. The district was recognized as a good collection of varied nineteenth-century vernacular buildings, with a period of significance from 1833 to about 1900.","period_of_significance":"1833-c1900","architect_builder":"William Stewart (designer of the Benjamin Stewart House); Charles and Jonathon Crugar with carpenters A.B. Parrott, J.C. Ferris and Thomas Taggert (4911 Stewart Ave.); L.C. Weir (house at Madison Road and Stewart Avenue)","architectural_style":"Nineteenth-century vernacular, including Federal, Italianate, Italian Villa and Eastlake","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good and altered; mainly private residences. The house at 5515 Madison Road was scheduled for demolition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.149915-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001419.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001419/68e4f5f732-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001419/68e4f5f732-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Stewart_Avenue_in_Cincinnati.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Stewart_Avenue_in_Cincinnati.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988999","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%E2%80%93Stewart_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6727847"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/madison-stewart-historic-district-75001419/"}