Lower Price Hill Historic District

Lower Price Hill is a tightly packed Cincinnati neighborhood of roughly 25 acres at the eastern foot of Price Hill, beside the Mill Creek industrial valley. Its 206 buildings are mostly brick, and most were built to the sidewalk on long, narrow lots. Italianate multi-family houses dominate, with bracketed metal cornices and stone or metal window surrounds, reflecting the area's main growth in the 1870s and 1880s. Other building types add variety: corner commercial blocks with cast iron or stone storefronts, one-story brick rows, two churches, and two schools. Notable examples include the terra cotta Neo-Classical West End Bank Building, the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival Radel Funeral Home, and the 1930 Oyler School, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons and decorated with Rookwood tile. Industrial buildings along Burns Street show how factories and homes once stood side by side. The district was listed for this cohesive architecture and the intact streetscapes built mostly by 1938.