{"nrhp_refnum":"85000946","name":"Mt. Healthy Public School","other_names":["Grace E. Hunt Public School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Compton & Harrison Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mt. Healthy","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.23291597900004,"lon":-84.54984204899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick public school building, later known as the Grace E. Hunt School, at the northwest corner of Compton and Harrison Avenues in Mt. Healthy, Hamilton County, Ohio. It was built in 1910 to designs by Cincinnati architect John F. Sheblessy.","why_significant":"The nomination cites it as an example of Second Renaissance Revival style applied to school architecture (Criteria A and C). It is also the earliest surviving link to Mt. Healthy's public education system, after a 19th-century school nearby was demolished in the 1970s. It housed all twelve grades and the area's first four-year high school.","narrative":"Built in 1910 at the northwest corner of Compton and Harrison Avenues, this three-story brick school served Mt. Healthy, then a small community about ten miles north of Cincinnati. Designed by Cincinnati architect John F. Sheblessy in the Second Renaissance Revival style, it has golden pressed brick walls, smooth cement trim, a denticulated cornice, and a central entrance framed by Corinthian columns and a segmental pediment. Inside, a central hall leads to large classrooms, and a first-floor auditorium has a stained-glass dome. A Rookwood tile fountain honors former principal Grace E. Hunt. The school housed all twelve grades for the district and became the first four-year high school on the hilltop. It was later used as a grade school and then left vacant. With the demolition of an older school nearby in the 1970s, it became the earliest surviving reminder of local public education, and its exterior and interior remain largely unaltered.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"JOHN F. SHEBLESSY","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a grade school until a few years before the nomination and then left vacant; reuse as a senior citizens' center and school board offices was being pursued. The building is described as basically unaltered inside and out.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.88553-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85000946.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000946/50e5ee3974-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000946/50e5ee3974-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MtHealthySchool03.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:MtHealthySchool03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989069","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Healthy_Public_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716733"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/mt-healthy-public-school-85000946/"}