{"nrhp_refnum":"80003080","name":"Rattermann, Heinrich A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"510 York St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.117309774000034,"lon":-84.52355127599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Italianate house at 510 York Street in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, built around 1860 and associated with the German-American author Heinrich A. Rattermann.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Heinrich A. Rattermann, described as the most prolific German-American author and Cincinnati's greatest German man of letters. It served as a literary center of German-American literature. It is also a good, unaltered example of the Italianate style.","narrative":"This three-story brick house at 510 York Street in Cincinnati dates to about 1860 and is a clear example of the Italianate style common in the city. It has a stone foundation, a flat roof with a dominant bracketed cornice, and a three-bay facade. Upper windows have bracketed sills and carved moulded lintels, while the arched first-floor windows carry keystones. A recessed side entrance is framed by elaborately carved stone trim. A narrower three-story rear wing was built with the main house, and the original stone retaining wall, steps and wrought iron fence survive. The house is tied to Heinrich A. Rattermann, a German immigrant who arrived in Cincinnati in 1846, founded a mutual fire insurance company in 1858, and became a prolific historian and author documenting German-American settlement in Ohio. He lived here from 1895 until his death in 1923, and the home served as a literary center for German-American writing. The nomination aimed to encourage the owners to preserve it.","period_of_significance":"c.1860","architect_builder":"Heinrich A. Rattermann","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, with present use given as warehouse; exterior reported unchanged since 1975 photographs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.123872-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003080.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003080/0fe2bedd9f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003080/0fe2bedd9f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heinrich_A._Rattermann_House_site.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heinrich_A._Rattermann_House_site.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989117","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_A._Rattermann_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5699920"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/rattermann-heinrich-a-house-80003080/"}