{"nrhp_refnum":"83001979","name":"Cincinnati Tennis Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Dexter and Wold Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.13416276000004,"lon":-84.46928524399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private tennis club on a three-acre tract at Dexter and Wold Avenues in East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, with a frame clubhouse built in 1906 and ten tennis courts. The club has occupied the site since 1899.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the club is significant for its long role in developing tennis in Cincinnati and the Ohio Valley, particularly on its present site. It hosted the Tri-State Tournament, which was ranked just below the Newport national tournament in early twentieth-century importance, along with other regional and national matches. Its competitive and professional tradition produced a Wimbledon champion in 1955.","narrative":"On a three-acre corner of Dexter and Wold Avenues in East Walnut Hills, the Cincinnati Tennis Club has operated since 1899, after earlier homes in Music Hall and three temporary Walnut Hills sites. A simple frame clubhouse from 1906, with a hipped roof sloping over a long open porch, overlooks ten courts. The building was enlarged in 1914, its porch widened in 1922, and part of the porch enclosed after World War II, yet it keeps its rustic summerhouse look. The club, founded in 1880, earned its place in tennis history by hosting the Tri-State Tournament, which drew champions such as May Sutton, Bobby Riggs and Molla Bjurstedt, and by staging a National Clay Court Championship in 1914. It hired a professional instructor in 1917, one of the first in the Midwest, and produced Wimbledon champion Tony Trabert in 1955. Its surroundings of large houses and mature trees remain largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"1906 - present","architect_builder":"Tietig & Lee (architects) - Clubhouse","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition, though altered; the clubhouse retains its basic shape and rustic summerhouse appearance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.130956-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83001979.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001979/93047c9cd4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001979/93047c9cd4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CincinnatiTennisClub.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CincinnatiTennisClub.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989245","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Tennis_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5120320"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/cincinnati-tennis-club-83001979/"}