Westwood Town Center Historic District

Westwood's town center in Cincinnati is a small district of seven landmark buildings clustered around the triangular lot of the Westwood Town Hall. The village bought the land in 1884, and the Queen Anne hall, designed by local architects Charles Crapsey and William R. Brown, held village functions and fire equipment. After Westwood was annexed to Cincinnati in 1896, the building passed to the city with the condition that it be kept for community use. It later housed a YMCA, a conservatory of music, theatrical groups and art classes. Around it stand two churches by Samuel Hannaford and Sons, built thirty years apart: the High Victorian Gothic Methodist church of 1896 and the Presbyterian church of 1926. The district also includes a firehouse, a telephone company building, a Jacobethan Revival elementary school and a library. Together they show a range of late nineteenth and early twentieth century building styles and the growth of a farm village into a suburb.