{"nrhp_refnum":"78002074","name":"Clifton Avenue Historic District","other_names":["See Also: Samuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Irregular pattern along Clifton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.15509924950007,"lon":-84.51692814974885,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, running irregularly along Clifton Avenue from McAlpin Avenue to I-75 and taking in parts of Greendale Avenue and Lafayette Circle. It includes a school, church complex, fountain, carriage houses, an observatory and many large houses from the mid-19th to early 20th century.","why_significant":"The district shows how a rural farm area became a suburb of large, substantial residences. The text describes it as visually unified by lawns, trees, retained gas and boulevard lamps, and recurring classical and revival details. The Statement of Significance section is not present in the supplied text, so the reasons rest mainly on the Section 7 description.","narrative":"Clifton Avenue Historic District in Cincinnati covers a stretch of large houses and civic landmarks along Clifton Avenue, with adjoining parts of Greendale Avenue and Lafayette Circle. Once rural farmland, the area became a suburb of substantial residences, and it keeps a park-like feel through spacious lawns, mature trees and gas and electric boulevard lamps that the city retained at residents' request. Major landmarks include Clifton School, built on the site of the Resor Academy; the 1887 Probasco Fountain; the Balsh estate carriage house; Calvary Episcopal Church, dated 1867, with its Gothic Revival stone buildings; and the 1915 Abbe Meteorological Observatory. The houses range from an early farmhouse to Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, Georgian Revival and Neo-Colonial examples, many sharing classical details that visually link the district. The Resor House and the Joseph Rawson House were already individually listed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mixed 19th and early 20th century styles: Georgian Revival, Neo-Colonial, Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, Federal and classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent; the Probasco Fountain is described as being restored by the community.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.711598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002074.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002074/5cb9aac09f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002074/5cb9aac09f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifton_Avenue_School_in_Cincinnati.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifton_Avenue_School_in_Cincinnati.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989075","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5133175"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/clifton-avenue-historic-district-78002074/"}