Hamilton Historic Civic Center

Three blocks of downtown Hamilton, Ohio, on the east bank of the Great Miami River, make up a civic district centered on High Street and the High-Main Street Bridge. The 1934 Municipal Building is a high-style Art Deco design with reinforced concrete walls, stone veneer and carved panels showing local industry and early transportation. Beside it stands the Art Moderne Nash Building, built around 1931 as a bus station. Across the street is the seven-story Anthony Wayne Hotel of 1927, a Second Renaissance Revival building with rusticated stone and terra cotta trim. Monument Place is a park holding the 1902-1903 Soldier's, Sailor's and Pioneer's Monument, topped by a bronze Union soldier, along with a 1901 stockade-style retaining wall and many plaques. The 1914 bridge carries five reinforced concrete arches across about 503 feet of river. Together these resources record Hamilton's civic life, early settlement at Fort Hamilton and twentieth-century architecture. The Rialto Theatre and a relocated log cabin are counted as non-contributing.