Madison and Woodburn Historic District

Nineteen buildings around the meeting of Woodburn Avenue and Madison Road in Cincinnati form a compact neighborhood business district once known as Woodburn. Most were built between about 1875 and 1910, as farms, orchards and estates gave way to suburban growth and better transport to the city centre. The streetscape combines three- and four-story Italianate storefront buildings, Queen Anne apartment blocks such as the Lutmer Flats and Krug Buildings, Classical Revival flats, a Spanish Colonial Revival auto showroom and a 1928 Art Deco bank. St. Francis de Sales Church, a Gothic Revival landmark designed by Francis G. Himper, dominates the intersection, while the seven-story San Marco Building, designed by John Boll, anchors the other corner. Varied brick, sandstone, limestone and cast-iron details create a consistent scale and visual continuity. The district was listed as a distinctive example of mixed commercial and residential architecture, and local groups have been rehabilitating its buildings.