Peeble's Corner Historic District

Peeble's Corner is a dense commercial and residential district in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills neighborhood, built around the meeting of East McMillan Street and Gilbert Avenue. Seventy-four buildings, mostly two to four stories of brick with sandstone trim, line the streets in rows or as free-standing structures. The crossroads formed where Montgomery Pike (Gilbert Avenue) and Madisonville Pike (McMillan Avenue) met, and by the 1860s it served as a hilltop shopping center for the community. The 1925 Cincinnati Master Plan still described it as one of the city's most important intersections. Buildings date from about 1861 to 1935 and show Italianate, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Romanesque, Renaissance Revival and Art Deco styles. Fire Company #16, built in 1871 and designed by Anderson and Hannaford, is the oldest remaining fire station in Cincinnati. Uniform setbacks, brick walls and consistent heights give the district a cohesive appearance despite altered storefronts and some demolition.