{"nrhp_refnum":"77001063","name":"Edgecliff Area Historic Group","other_names":["See Also: Samuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2220 Victory Parkway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.12123328200005,"lon":-84.4838283278321,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-11-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small district of 19th-century stone Victorian mansions and outbuildings on the southeast side of the Edgecliff College campus at 2220 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio, overlooking the Ohio River. It includes Emery Hall (1881), Maxwelton (1888), the Ferris House (1870), a carriage house, two greenhouses and the nearby Thomas P. Egan House.","why_significant":"The buildings are presented as excellent examples of rockfaced stone Victorian architecture, dating from about 1870 to 1890 and unified by their material, scale and treatment. Emery Hall was designed by noted Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford. The original residents were prominent figures in philanthropy, law, music and industry, including Thomas and Mary Emery, Lawrence Maxwell, Judge Howard Ferris and Thomas P. Egan.","narrative":"Overlooking the Ohio River on the southeast side of the former Edgecliff College campus in Cincinnati, this group of stone mansions and outbuildings was built between about 1870 and 1890. Emery Hall, completed in 1881 to designs by Samuel Hannaford, was the home of Thomas and Mary Emery, whose wealth and philanthropy shaped Cincinnati and led Mary Emery to plan the town of Mariemont. Maxwelton was the residence of Lawrence Maxwell, a U.S. Solicitor General and long-time May Festival president, and contains a music room with a water-powered organ. The Ferris House, a carriage house, two greenhouses and the nearby Thomas P. Egan House complete the group. All are built of rockfaced Bedford stone with varied decorative detail, and the interiors of the main houses remain largely unaltered. The Sisters of Mercy began using the Emery and Maxwell estates for the college in 1935.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford (Emery Hall)","architectural_style":"Victorian, rockfaced Bedford stone construction with some Gothic Revival influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings are described as basically unaltered; the Edgecliff College campus uses them as an art gallery and art department (Emery Hall) and the music department (Maxwelton). The Egan House is privately owned.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.092849-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001063.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989175","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgecliff_Area_Historic_Group","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337741"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/edgecliff-area-historic-group-77001063/"}