Built circa 1890, this Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style building features a red painted brick exterior, a cornice with small modillions and circular elements, brick pilasters with recessed bands that penetrate the roofline and terminate at ziggaraut-shaped stone caps with spheres at the pinnacles, one-over-one double-hung windows with decorative stone lintels and stone sills, with groups of windows separated by decorative pilasters, blind arches above the second-story windows with stone trim made of rusticated stone blocks and decorative rusticated keystones running along the top, and first-floor retail storefronts with cast iron pilasters and plate glass windows. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Built in 1968, this Modern building houses the Fort Thomas City Government, as well as the Fort Thomas Fire Department and Fort Thomas Police Department. The building features a buff brick and concrete panel exterior, replacement windows, a large new contemporary glass curtain wall on the second floor added in 2021-22, a low-slope roof, concrete spandrel panels above and below the second-story windows, a concrete canopy at the south end of the building’s front facade, large garage bays for the Fort Thomas Fire Department with concrete columns, an integrated front plaza and planter, and a concrete base. The building was renovated and given several new contemporary design elements in 2021-22, adding onto the rear of the building and opening up the front facade around the building’s front entrance.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Built in 1960, this Modern and Art Moderne-style church was designed by an unknown architect and built for the congregation of the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The building is a transitional example of the Art Moderne and Modern styles, with elements of both, including exterior elements that more closely tie in to Art Moderne, and an interior that is more distinctly Modern, which demonstrates the sometimes blurry divisions between architectural styles in the real world. The building is clad in red brick with a concrete base and gabled roof, buff brick and limestone trim, and several stained glass windows, steel windows, oxeye windows, and a tower with pilasters at the corners, buff brick panels, an octagonal top with a finial topped by a cross, a sanctuary with laminated wood columns and beams, and a wing to the side built between 1987 and 1990, designed by Hub + Weber Architects, which houses educational classrooms and features a red brick exterior, recessed portion of the gable, a semi-circular canopy over the side entrance, and one-over-one windows. The building saw another addition in 2009-2010, adding a front entrance vestibule and lobby, a front entrance drive, and an elevator shaft that mimics the original tower, but shorter in height. The building continues to house the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas.

Built in 1867 and originally known as the Kinney Mansion, this Second Empire-style stone mansion was designed by architect J. K. Wilson, of Cincinnati, and was the home of Eli Kinney, a banker in Cincinnati. Following Kinney’s death in 1884, the house became known as Bloom’s Castle, and later was sold to the Carmelite Nuns in 1949, becoming the Carmel Manor Nursing Home, which is continues to function as today. The mansion features a rusticated stone exterior, mansard roof, towers with tall roofs topped by crosses, arched windows, an oxeye window over the front entrance, gables on the front and rear of the central wing of the house, modillions at the eaves, a northern wing with a two-story front bay window, a one-story bay window at the north end of the front facade, a porch with a hipped roof, square columns, and a front gable over the front entrance, and a shed dormer on the south slope of the roof of the house. The mansion is surrounded by multiple wings, with the oldest being built in the mid-20th Century in the modern style after the house was converted into a nursing home. The oldest addition features a buff brick exterior, a hipped roof with gables that was added around the turn of the millennium, a large chapel in the front with vertical slit windows, concrete sills and a concrete base, and a stone cross mounted to the front facade of the chapel. The other side of the mansion is the site of several sprawling wings, added in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century, which more closely mimic the exterior of the original house.

Built between 1890 and 1892, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature an eclectic mix of Queen Anne elements, with unifying features being typically complex rooflines with multiple gables or hipped sections, stone trim, brick exteriors, rusticated stone bases, offset corner and front porches, stone lintels and sills, double-hung one-over-one and two-over-two windows, and bay windows in one and two story variants. Some of the houses feature more unique elements, including cylindrical turrets with conical roofs, jerkinhead or clipped gable roofs with attic oriel windows on the ends of the gables, clapboard-clad upper portions of the exterior facades, and quarter-circle attic windows. After sitting vacant since 2002, the houses were all rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the addition of one-story basement additions housing garages to the rear of each house, all featuring rooftop decks, a new infill house in a compatible postmodern interpretation of the original house designs, and restoration of all intact character-defining features of the houses. The houses, minus the one built in 2020, are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in 1888, this Queen Anne-style house was constructed as the Commandant’s Quarters and first building at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964, and sits on a prominent site overlooking the Ohio River at the end of Alexander Circle. The house was first occupied by Commandant Colonel Melville A. Cochran, whom laid out the roads on the military reservation at Fort Thomas and had the house constructed at the most prominent point of the bluff on which the reservation sits. The house features a red brick exterior, rusticated stone base, prominent stair tower on the front facade with rounded corners and a tripartite feature window with an arched transom and stone trim, topped with a balcony featuring a semi-circular roof, wooden columns, and wooden cladding on the low railing, one-over-one double-hung windows, hipped dormers with decorative brackets, stone lintels and sills, a front porch with a hipped roof, open pier foundation, and square columns, a front door with sidelights and a decorative glass transom, a two-story bay window on the side facade facing the Ohio River, a side porch facing the Ohio River with a rusticated stone base, square columns, and a hipped roof, and a rear basement garage addition with a rooftop deck, added in 2020. After sitting vacant since 2002, the was rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the restoration of all intact character-defining features of the house. The house is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

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Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

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Built in 1892-93, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature red brick exteriors, stone lintels and sills, two-over-two and one-over-one double-hung windows with storm windows, rusticated stone bases, wooden front porches with simple square columns, hipped roofs, and open pier foundations, brick corbeling, hipped roofs, front gables and front gabled dormers, and front doors with decorative glass transoms. The houses are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in the late 19th Century as a Queen Anne-style house, this building saw a large two-story front commercial addition in the early 20th Century, which greatly changed its character. The original house, now stripped of most of its original exterior features, is clad in vinyl siding, with a complex hipped and gabled roof, and a large rear early 20th Century rooftop addition clad in half-timbering and stucco with leaded glass casement windows and a large arched stained glass window. The front addition features orange brick on the front facade and red brick on the side facades, two second-story oriel windows, two first-floor retail spaces, an entrance to the upper floors in the center of the first floor, and a red tile hipped canopy above the oriel windows.

Built in 1927, this Arts and Crafts-style house features a jerkinhead or clipped gable roof, bracketed eaves, side shed wall dormers, a red wire brick exterior, concrete base, leaded glass diamond pane casement windows, stone sills, a front balcony with decorative brackets, a metal railing, and decorative trim board, a side oriel window, a front door with a tile surround and extruded front bay with a front gable roof, and a corner porch with a tile-clad brick column, metal railing, and a concrete floor.

Built in 1890, this Queen Anne-style house features a hipped slate roof, cylindrical roof dormer over the front entrance clad in slate shingles with a conical roof, doric pilasters, and casement windows, a front gabled dormer with an arch above the window with decorative trim, paired doric columns on either end of the dormer, a masonry railing with circular openings, one-over-one double-hung windows with storm windows, rusticated stone lintels, stone sills, a painted brick exterior, a rusticated stone base, and a partially enclosed front porch with doric columns and pilasters, a hipped roof, decorated pediment over the front entrance steps, and rusticated stone column base piers and railings. The house has been converted into a commercial business building, owing to the increased commercialization of the surrounding segment of Fort Thomas Avenue.

Built in 1960, this Modern and Art Moderne-style church was designed by an unknown architect and built for the congregation of the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The building is a transitional example of the Art Moderne and Modern styles, with elements of both, including exterior elements that more closely tie in to Art Moderne, and an interior that is more distinctly Modern, which demonstrates the sometimes blurry divisions between architectural styles in the real world. The building is clad in red brick with a concrete base and gabled roof, buff brick and limestone trim, and several stained glass windows, steel windows, oxeye windows, and a tower with pilasters at the corners, buff brick panels, an octagonal top with a finial topped by a cross, a sanctuary with laminated wood columns and beams, and a wing to the side built between 1987 and 1990, designed by Hub + Weber Architects, which houses educational classrooms and features a red brick exterior, recessed portion of the gable, a semi-circular canopy over the side entrance, and one-over-one windows. The building saw another addition in 2009-2010, adding a front entrance vestibule and lobby, a front entrance drive, and an elevator shaft that mimics the original tower, but shorter in height. The building continues to house the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas.

Built in 1890, this Romanesque Revival-style armory was constructed as a drill hall, serving as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The building features a front and rear gable roof with a red brick exterior, parapets at the gable ends with terra cotta caps, a rusticated stone base, arched window and door openings with nine-over-nine and six-over-six double hung windows and some window transoms, stone sills, large arched entrance openings on the front and rear facades with a large transom made up of multiple sections above the rear entry door and a front entranceway with concrete block infill, an iron portcullis, and small windows flanking the central solid metal double entry door. The sides of the building feature buttresses, large triple double-hung windows, and stone belt coursing, and the interior features a large open space with a cambered fink truss roof structure and wooden floor measuring ninety feet wide and one hundred feet long. The building served as the drill hall for Fort Thomas during its operation, before becoming a public recreation center upon the closure of the military base in 1964. The building has a connection to the tragic fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club May 28, 1977, with many of the dead being brought to the armory for processing, as it was the largest nearby building where the remains of 162 people who died during the fire could be brought, with three people surviving the fire but dying from their injuries in the following days and months. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Built between 1890 and 1892, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature an eclectic mix of Queen Anne elements, with unifying features being typically complex rooflines with multiple gables or hipped sections, stone trim, brick exteriors, rusticated stone bases, offset corner and front porches, stone lintels and sills, double-hung one-over-one and two-over-two windows, and bay windows in one and two story variants. Some of the houses feature more unique elements, including cylindrical turrets with conical roofs, jerkinhead or clipped gable roofs with attic oriel windows on the ends of the gables, clapboard-clad upper portions of the exterior facades, and quarter-circle attic windows. After sitting vacant since 2002, the houses were all rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the addition of one-story basement additions housing garages to the rear of each house, all featuring rooftop decks, a new infill house in a compatible postmodern interpretation of the original house designs, and restoration of all intact character-defining features of the houses. The houses, minus the one built in 2020, are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built around the turn of the 20th Century, this Queen Anne-style house features a side gable roof with a large central front gable, doric pilasters, a painted brick exterior, a large arched attic window, a second-story bow oriel window with ionic pilasters over the front porch, a front porte cohere with square doric ionic columns and stone bases, replacement windows, a concrete base, and one-story side additions made of painted brick.

Built between 1890 and 1892, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature an eclectic mix of Queen Anne elements, with unifying features being typically complex rooflines with multiple gables or hipped sections, stone trim, brick exteriors, rusticated stone bases, offset corner and front porches, stone lintels and sills, double-hung one-over-one and two-over-two windows, and bay windows in one and two story variants. Some of the houses feature more unique elements, including cylindrical turrets with conical roofs, jerkinhead or clipped gable roofs with attic oriel windows on the ends of the gables, clapboard-clad upper portions of the exterior facades, and quarter-circle attic windows. After sitting vacant since 2002, the houses were all rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the addition of one-story basement additions housing garages to the rear of each house, all featuring rooftop decks, a new infill house in a compatible postmodern interpretation of the original house designs, and restoration of all intact character-defining features of the houses. The houses, minus the one built in 2020, are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in the mid-20th Century, this Modern bank building houses a branch of the Guardian Savings Bank. The building features a low-slope shed roof, exposed roof beams, a large aluminum curtain wall on the front facade, tapered metal columns, a corner entry foyer containing a staircase, stone and cream brick exterior walls, an integrated front planter, integrated rear drive-thru canopy, and a large open interior lobby.

Built in 1856, this Greek Revival-style house was built by the Shaw family, and is one of the oldest remaining houses in Fort Thomas. The house sits atop a knoll just off Fort Thomas Avenue, and features a painted brick exterior, hipped roof with a flat top, wide overhanging eaves, a cornice with egg and dart moulding, porches with cast iron railings, trim, and columns, with a second-story balcony at the main front porch, six-over-six and six-over-nine double-hung windows, stone lintels and sills, a rusticated stone base, doors on the original front facade with with sidelights and transoms, an entry door on the side porch with sidelights and a transom, and a rear wing with a hipped roof that stands lower than the rest of the house.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Built in 1960, this Modern and Art Moderne-style church was designed by an unknown architect and built for the congregation of the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The building is a transitional example of the Art Moderne and Modern styles, with elements of both, including exterior elements that more closely tie in to Art Moderne, and an interior that is more distinctly Modern, which demonstrates the sometimes blurry divisions between architectural styles in the real world. The building is clad in red brick with a concrete base and gabled roof, buff brick and limestone trim, and several stained glass windows, steel windows, oxeye windows, and a tower with pilasters at the corners, buff brick panels, an octagonal top with a finial topped by a cross, a sanctuary with laminated wood columns and beams, and a wing to the side built between 1987 and 1990, designed by Hub + Weber Architects, which houses educational classrooms and features a red brick exterior, recessed portion of the gable, a semi-circular canopy over the side entrance, and one-over-one windows. The building saw another addition in 2009-2010, adding a front entrance vestibule and lobby, a front entrance drive, and an elevator shaft that mimics the original tower, but shorter in height. The building continues to house the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas.

Built between 1890 and 1892, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature an eclectic mix of Queen Anne elements, with unifying features being typically complex rooflines with multiple gables or hipped sections, stone trim, brick exteriors, rusticated stone bases, offset corner and front porches, stone lintels and sills, double-hung one-over-one and two-over-two windows, and bay windows in one and two story variants. Some of the houses feature more unique elements, including cylindrical turrets with conical roofs, jerkinhead or clipped gable roofs with attic oriel windows on the ends of the gables, clapboard-clad upper portions of the exterior facades, and quarter-circle attic windows. After sitting vacant since 2002, the houses were all rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the addition of one-story basement additions housing garages to the rear of each house, all featuring rooftop decks, a new infill house in a compatible postmodern interpretation of the original house designs, and restoration of all intact character-defining features of the houses. The houses, minus the one built in 2020, are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built between 1888 and 1892, this Romanesque Revival-style building was constructed as a mess hall for the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The building features a red brick exterior with a hipped roof, hipped roof dormers with vents, arched window openings with six-over-six double-hung windows, stone sills, a rusticated stone base, brick corbeling at the eaves, a front entrance gable with brick corbeling, an arched front door bay with a double doors sidelights, an opaque panel above the front door, pilasters with stone trim, an arched attic vent, and two stone panels flanking the brick arch over the door, side entrances with double doors and transoms, and a gabled rear wing with similar details to the front and circular attic vents, which once housed the mess hall kitchen. The interior of the building features brick walls, a tin ceiling, a tile floor, and large, open rooms, with the front wing of the building being a single large open space, and the rear kitchen wing having several partitions. The building presently serves as a community center for Fort Thomas, after undergoing a rehabilitation in 1981, and sits in the midst of Tower Park, which occupies the land that was once home to the military installation that Fort Thomas is named for. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in 1960, this Modern and Art Moderne-style church was designed by an unknown architect and built for the congregation of the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The building is a transitional example of the Art Moderne and Modern styles, with elements of both, including exterior elements that more closely tie in to Art Moderne, and an interior that is more distinctly Modern, which demonstrates the sometimes blurry divisions between architectural styles in the real world. The building is clad in red brick with a concrete base and gabled roof, buff brick and limestone trim, and several stained glass windows, steel windows, oxeye windows, and a tower with pilasters at the corners, buff brick panels, an octagonal top with a finial topped by a cross, a sanctuary with laminated wood columns and beams, and a wing to the side built between 1987 and 1990, designed by Hub + Weber Architects, which houses educational classrooms and features a red brick exterior, recessed portion of the gable, a semi-circular canopy over the side entrance, and one-over-one windows. The building saw another addition in 2009-2010, adding a front entrance vestibule and lobby, a front entrance drive, and an elevator shaft that mimics the original tower, but shorter in height. The building continues to house the First Christian Church of Fort Thomas.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Built in 1856, this Greek Revival-style house was built by the Shaw family, and is one of the oldest remaining houses in Fort Thomas. The house sits atop a knoll just off Fort Thomas Avenue, and features a painted brick exterior, hipped roof with a flat top, wide overhanging eaves, a cornice with egg and dart moulding, porches with cast iron railings, trim, and columns, with a second-story balcony at the main front porch, six-over-six and six-over-nine double-hung windows, stone lintels and sills, a rusticated stone base, doors on the original front facade with with sidelights and transoms, an entry door on the side porch with sidelights and a transom, and a rear wing with a hipped roof that stands lower than the rest of the house.

Built in 1962, this Modern building houses the congregation of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, which was created to serve an area formerly served by various other parishes in more distant locations. The church replaced an earlier building on the same site, which was a small wood-frame chapel ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in 1930. The present church features a fan-shaped layout with a large arcing curtain wall made up of stained glass panels at the clerestory on the front facade, a rusticated stone base on the front facade and red brick on the side and rear facades, a limestone-clad cylindrical tower soaring above the church’s glass front entry vestibule with a sculpture of St. Catherine on the exterior and an Art Deco-style crown atop the tower below the modernist cross, modernist mosaic art inside the semi-circular entry vestibule, Latin words and christian symbols pressed into the metal trim at the top of the building’s front facade, sawtooth elements at the front facade, giving it a more complex and sculptural footprint, and a rear corner addition with a small grotto added around the turn of the millennium to add additional space for the church’s needs. The church continues to serve the surrounding St. Catherine of Siena Parish, and is one of the best examples of modernist church architecture in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Built in 1929, this Tudor Revival-style house features a red brick exterior, hipped and cat slide roof with a front gable, half-timbering and stucco cladding on the front gable end and the side of the second floor of the front facade, a concrete base, casement windows, a protruding front entryway with stone on the front facade, sharply pointed leaded glass diamond pane windows, a pentagon-shaped front door with a hexagonal lite and triangular pointed top, a side oriel window, a rear porch with brick columns, and a side porch with a large stone buttress at the front corner, wooden columns and timber framing, and a metal railing.

Built circa 1910, this Arts and Crafts-style bungalow features a front gable roof, decorative brackets, six-over-one and eight-over-one double-hung windows, shingle cladding on the gable ends, a painted brick first floor, rusticated stone base, first floor bay window on the side facade, two front doors, two front picture windows with decorative glass transoms, and a front porch with two front gable roofs, decorative square columns and trim, and a wooden railing.

Built between 1890 and 1892, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature an eclectic mix of Queen Anne elements, with unifying features being typically complex rooflines with multiple gables or hipped sections, stone trim, brick exteriors, rusticated stone bases, offset corner and front porches, stone lintels and sills, double-hung one-over-one and two-over-two windows, and bay windows in one and two story variants. Some of the houses feature more unique elements, including cylindrical turrets with conical roofs, jerkinhead or clipped gable roofs with attic oriel windows on the ends of the gables, clapboard-clad upper portions of the exterior facades, and quarter-circle attic windows. After sitting vacant since 2002, the houses were all rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the addition of one-story basement additions housing garages to the rear of each house, all featuring rooftop decks, a new infill house in a compatible postmodern interpretation of the original house designs, and restoration of all intact character-defining features of the houses. The houses, minus the one built in 2020, are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built between 1890 and 1892, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature an eclectic mix of Queen Anne elements, with unifying features being typically complex rooflines with multiple gables or hipped sections, stone trim, brick exteriors, rusticated stone bases, offset corner and front porches, stone lintels and sills, double-hung one-over-one and two-over-two windows, and bay windows in one and two story variants. Some of the houses feature more unique elements, including cylindrical turrets with conical roofs, jerkinhead or clipped gable roofs with attic oriel windows on the ends of the gables, clapboard-clad upper portions of the exterior facades, and quarter-circle attic windows. After sitting vacant since 2002, the houses were all rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, with the addition of one-story basement additions housing garages to the rear of each house, all featuring rooftop decks, a new infill house in a compatible postmodern interpretation of the original house designs, and restoration of all intact character-defining features of the houses. The houses, minus the one built in 2020, are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.