Clifton Avenue Historic District

Clifton Avenue Historic District in Cincinnati covers a stretch of large houses and civic landmarks along Clifton Avenue, with adjoining parts of Greendale Avenue and Lafayette Circle. Once rural farmland, the area became a suburb of substantial residences, and it keeps a park-like feel through spacious lawns, mature trees and gas and electric boulevard lamps that the city retained at residents' request. Major landmarks include Clifton School, built on the site of the Resor Academy; the 1887 Probasco Fountain; the Balsh estate carriage house; Calvary Episcopal Church, dated 1867, with its Gothic Revival stone buildings; and the 1915 Abbe Meteorological Observatory. The houses range from an early farmhouse to Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, Georgian Revival and Neo-Colonial examples, many sharing classical details that visually link the district. The Resor House and the Joseph Rawson House were already individually listed.