Sedamsville Village Historic District

Sedamsville Village is a compact hillside neighborhood in Cincinnati, rising above River Road about three miles west of downtown. Narrow streets climb the slope, houses sit close to the street, and a church crowns the summit, giving the area the look of a European village. The district holds 175 resources, 155 of them contributing, along with a site made up of stone walls and public steps. Most buildings date from 1880 to 1900 and show the work of local builders, probably linked to the German-American community. House types include I-houses, side-passage townhouses, false-front shotgun houses, mansard cottages, gallery houses and tenements, in Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne styles. The nomination presents the district as a clear example of Cincinnati's immigrant hillside neighborhoods, where the parish church and school were community focal points. Exteriors have changed little, though about half the buildings are now vacant and some have been lost to demolition.