Gilbert-Sinton Historic District

Gilbert-Sinton Historic District is a triangular neighborhood northeast of downtown Cincinnati, just north of Eden Park. Gilbert Avenue, Sinton Avenue and Morris Street form its edges. It contains 53 buildings, mostly residential, built between the 1880s and the early twentieth century. Stone-faced buildings dominate the south, brick buildings with stone and metal trim line Sinton Avenue, and frame houses with decorative shingles fill the north. These groupings reflect different developers at work. Thomas Emery's Sons built in three phases, with Joseph Steinkamp presumed to be the architect. Charles Dickson developed most of Morris Street, and James Sibley leased houses on Deerfield Place to working-class tenants who could buy them after three years. Cable and electric streetcar lines up the hill encouraged growth. Building types range from flats and duplexes to single-family houses and large rowhouses, many with shared corbelled chimneys and similar porches. Some buildings have been rehabilitated, while others are neglected or demolished.