{"nrhp_refnum":"82003583","name":"Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"333 and 341 Lafayette Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.15615487500003,"lon":-84.51999103399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent late nineteenth-century houses at 333 and 341 Lafayette Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio: the H. C. Hulbert House (1886) and the McAlpin Bridal Cottage (1888), both designed by architect Lucien F. Plympton.","why_significant":"The houses are argued to represent the talents of Cincinnati architect Lucien F. Plympton and his mastery of late nineteenth-century residential design. The Hulbert House's timber-and-boulder wall treatment is described as unique in Cincinnati, while the Queen Anne McAlpin cottage shows a different, more urbane approach. Both early works are said to anticipate Plympton's Chalet style houses of the early 1890s.","narrative":"Two neighboring houses on Lafayette Avenue in Cincinnati's Clifton Farm area record the early work of architect Lucien F. Plympton. The H. C. Hulbert House, built in 1886, is a 2½-story irregular-plan building with a first floor of erratic boulders supporting an upper story of English-style half-timber work framed in Mississippi cypress. Next door, the McAlpin Bridal Cottage of 1888 is a Queen Anne house with a stone foundation, brick first floor, shingled upper floors, a round corner turret and a verandah wrapping half the facade. Plympton worked in Cincinnati from 1881 to 1898 and was associated with Swiss Chalet and Alpine architecture. His clients were often wealthy merchants such as Harry Hulbert and George McAlpin. The houses were recognized because the boulder-and-timber treatment is unique in the city and because they foreshadow his later Chalet designs. Both remain private residences with largely intact original interiors and woodwork.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1886-1888)","architect_builder":"Lucien F. Plympton","architectural_style":"Hulbert House: half-timber and stone with English half-timber work; McAlpin Bridal Cottage: Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both properties are listed as occupied private residences in excellent condition, with the interiors retaining original features and few alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.187277-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003583.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003583/49bd868609-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003583/49bd868609-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BridalCottage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BridalCottage.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988959","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulbert_House_and_McAlpin_Bridal_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5935565"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/hulbert-house-and-mcalpin-bridal-cottage-82003583/"}