{"nrhp_refnum":"83001987","name":"Withrow High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2488 Madison Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.14204673650005,"lon":-84.45185226197627,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-01-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A public high school campus at 2488 Madison Road in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, on a 14-acre tract. Completed in 1919, it includes three major buildings, a stadium, a clocktower and a footbridge.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school embodied Cincinnati's drive for national recognition in public education and is one of the largest and finest school projects by architects Garber & Woodward. It is an outstanding example of Colonial Revival architecture. Its campus-style layout of separate buildings departed from the one-building school type and was praised in the 1925 City Plan as a model. It also drew national notice in the 1920s as a progressive secondary school.","narrative":"Withrow High School is a large public school campus on a 14-acre tract in Cincinnati's Hyde Park neighborhood, finished in 1919 to designs by Garber & Woodward. Six structures make up the group: an academic building with an eight-column portico, a gymnasia building, an industrial arts building with power plant, a 4,000-seat stadium, a 114-foot clocktower and a Georgian-style footbridge. Renaissance and Palladian windows, arcaded cupolas and brick shipped from Massachusetts mark the Colonial Revival design. The campus was listed because it represented Cincinnati's push for national standing in public education. Using separate buildings for different functions broke from the usual single-building school, and the 1925 City Plan called it one of the best high school layouts in the country. Magazines and educators of the 1920s presented it as a progressive school. It was named for School Board President Dr. John Withrow in 1924. The school remained in use at the time of listing.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Garber & Woodward","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (Georgian)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Public, occupied educational use; condition rated good and altered, with the footbridge undergoing complete restoration at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.721456-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83001987.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001987/726b9e14e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001987/726b9e14e6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Dale Browning","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Withrow_tower_nice_500_pix.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dale Browning</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Withrow_tower_nice_500_pix.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989065","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withrow_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8028294"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/withrow-high-school-83001987/"}