Village of Addyston Historic District

Addyston is a small industrial village stretched for about a mile along the Ohio River just west of Cincinnati. It grew from two hillside settlements, Sekitan and East Addyston, which were incorporated together in 1891, and it developed around a pipe-manufacturing plant established in 1889. The district takes in nearly all of the town's main streets and part of the plant, which is now operated by Monsanto. Of roughly 400 buildings, about 260 are houses, and most date from the village's first fifteen years. Eight recurring house types, mostly frame, gable-fronted and built around 1890, line the narrow streets in rows, including L-plan, T-plan, side-gable and pyramidal-roof forms. Six churches, two schools, a fire station, a social hall, boarding houses and commercial buildings are mixed in among them. Aluminum siding, replaced windows and small additions have altered some buildings, but the village still reads clearly as a company-driven workers' community.