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 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 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 in 1940-41, this Colonial Revival-style building houses the United States Post Office for Fort Thomas. The building features a side gable roof, clapboard cladding and semi-circular fanlight attic windows on the gable ends, a cornice with dentils, a rooftop cupola with six-over-six double-hung windows, doric pilasters, quoins, and a pyramidal concavely curved hipped roof topped with a weathervane, a red brick exterior, twelve-over-twelve windows with stone sills, a front entry portico with an arched top housing a bronze eagle sculpture, with an architrave and fluted doric pilasters flanking the front entrance, and a rear wing with a low-slope roof surrounded by a parapet. The building continues to serve as the post office for Fort Thomas.

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 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 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 1890, this stone Romanesque-style water tower was built at the entrance to the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The tower features a rusticated stone exterior, stone corner pilasters, a crenellated top parapet, large stone blocks at the tapered base, arrow slit windows, stone corbeling at the base of the building’s parapet, and an arched entrance door facing Fort Thomas Avenue. The building served as a water tower for the fort, and though it no longer serves that purpose today, still stands as a major local landmark and focal point for the adjacent Tower Park. The tower is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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Built in 1909, this Beaux Arts-style building was constructed to house the Hiland Exchange of the Citizens Telephone Company, which provided telephone service to the citizens of Northern Kentucky in the early 20th Century, and served as the Hiland Exchange until a new exchange was built to the south closer to the fort in 1941. The building features a buff brick exterior, a cornice with dentils and modillions, twelve-over-one and six-over-two double-hung windows on the second floor, stone trim and sills, arched window openings with one-over-one double-hung windows on the first floor, a low-slope side shed roof surrounded by a parapet, a rusticated stone base, first floor doors with decorative fanlight transoms, and quoins at the corners of the building. The building presently houses the Village Players of Fort Thomas, a local community theater organization.

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 1927, this Mediterranean Revival and Renaissance Revival-style building features a buff brick facade with a green tile bonnet roof with decorative brackets at either end, second-story oriel window, a four-over-one double-hung window on the second floor, stone trim, red brick side and rear facades, an arched window and recessed entry door on one side of the first floor and a storefront with a glass transom on the other side, and a concrete base.

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 as the Fifth Barracks in 1935, this Classical Revival-style building presently serves as the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center Fort Thomas, and was built as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The three-story red brick building was constructed as barracks for infantry meant to expand the capacity of the base, which by the time the building was constructed, was running out of space to expand. The building features an E-shaped footprint with a simple stone cornice at the base of the parapet, banded reveals on the first floor at the center of the principal facade principal facade of the side wings, stone belt coursing and sills, replacement windows, a concrete base, doric porticoes with fluted columns and architraves at the entrances on the principal facade, simple pilasters on the rear facade (facing Fort Thomas Avenue), and relatively restrained ornamentation on the rear facade. The building became home to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Nursing Home after World War II, and today serves as a Veterans Hospital. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Initially developed in the late 19th Century as a residential block, this group of buildings became increasingly commercialized into the mid-20th Century, with infill commercial development and first-floor front additions housing retail spaces being added to the block over time. The buildings include a corner building that started as a wood-frame Queen Anne-style house in the late 19th Century, but later saw the addition of a red brick front addition housing commercial space, a red-brick duplex built in the early 20th Century with a mid-20th Century modernist front commercial wing with a front gable roof, large windows, and stone and brick cladding, a building that started as a Queen Anne-style wood-frame house in the late 19th Century with an early 20th Century 2-story brick front commercial addition with two second-story oriel windows and a red tile hipped canopy, and an early 20th Century wood-frame house that has since been converted into a commercial building with a one-story front wood-frame addition. The commercial buildings make up part of the main business district of Fort Thomas, which developed along a former streetcar line that connected Fort Thomas and Highland Heights to Newport

On the left, built in 1889, this Queen Anne-style house features a side gable roof with a smaller front gable, half-timbering on the gable ends and dormers, dormers with front gables and pointed casement windows, a diamond pane attic window on the front gable, painted brick exterior, large decorative brackets, replacement windows, stone lintels and sills, a second-story balustrade below a feature window, double-hung windows on the side gables with complex mullions, a painted rusticated stone base, a front door with decorative glass sidelights and a decorative glass transom, and a front porch with a hipped roof, square columns, decorative trim, and a complex decorative railing.

On the right, built circa 1890, this Queen Anne-style mansion features a steeply pitched hipped roof, gabled dormers with corner pilasters and one-over-one double-hung windows with transoms, a circular corner tower with a conical roof, wood shingle and clapboard cladding, a rusticated stone base, fifteen-over-one, twelve-over-twelve, eight-over-eight, and one-over-one double-hung windows, a curved corner at the north end of the front facade, an enclosed side sun porch with large square columns, a double front door with decorative glass sidelights and a decorative glass transom, a covered second-story front balcony with decorative columns and windows with decorative glass transoms, and a front porch with thick square corner columns, round doric columns, and a rooftop deck.

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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.

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.

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Highlands High School at the turn of the century.

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 1928, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by C. C. Weber for the Christ Church United Church of Christ congregation in Fort Thomas, founded in 1907, replacing an earlier church on Forest Avenue, built in 1908-09. The church features a buff brick exterior, concrete base, front gable red tile roof with gable parapets, stone trim, gothic stained glass windows, a mid-20th Century modern storefront and canopy at the front entrance, buttresses on the side walls, and a rear sunday school building with a hipped roof and front entry porch with a decorative front facade wall with buttresses on the sides and a gothic arched front opening.

Built circa 1907, this Prairie-style house was designed by Vernon J. Hall and Guy C. Burroughs for the Mageer family. The house features a low-slope hipped roof with wide overhanging simple eaves, stucco cladding on the second floor, clapboard cladding on the first floor, a rusticated stone chimney, a concrete base, prairie-style double-hung and casement windows, and a corner front porch with a hipped roof, clapboard clad railings and columns, and a concrete floor.

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Built between 1890 and 1894, these Queen Anne-style houses were constructed as housing for non-commissioned officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses are relatively simple, with front gable roofs, stone lintels and sills, double-hung windows, originally two-over-two and one-over-one with some vinyl replacements, gabled or shed roofed side ells at the rear of the houses, rusticated stone bases, side porches with wooden columns, some of which have been enclosed, with some houses featuring paired front windows, many of which are arched on the second floor, or side-by-side single windows in two front bays. 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 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 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 circa 1890, this Queen Anne-style mansion features a steeply pitched hipped roof, gabled dormers with corner pilasters and one-over-one double-hung windows with transoms, a circular corner tower with a conical roof, wood shingle and clapboard cladding, a rusticated stone base, fifteen-over-one, twelve-over-twelve, eight-over-eight, and one-over-one double-hung windows, a curved corner at the north end of the front facade, an enclosed side sun porch with large square columns, a double front door with decorative glass sidelights and a decorative glass transom, a covered second-story front balcony with decorative columns and windows with decorative glass transoms, and a front porch with thick square corner columns, round doric columns, and a rooftop deck

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 1925, this Arts and Crafts-style side-clipped gable bungalow features a front jerkinhead or clipped gable dormer, side jerkinhead or clipped gable roof, replacement windows, a red wire brick exterior, a concrete base, and a front porch with brick railings and tapered brick columns.

Built in 1909, this Beaux Arts-style building was constructed to house the Hiland Exchange of the Citizens Telephone Company, which provided telephone service to the citizens of Northern Kentucky in the early 20th Century, and served as the Hiland Exchange until a new exchange was built to the south closer to the fort in 1941. The building features a buff brick exterior, a cornice with dentils and modillions, twelve-over-one and six-over-two double-hung windows on the second floor, stone trim and sills, arched window openings with one-over-one double-hung windows on the first floor, a low-slope side shed roof surrounded by a parapet, a rusticated stone base, first floor doors with decorative fanlight transoms, and quoins at the corners of the building. The building presently houses the Village Players of Fort Thomas, a local community theater organization.

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 1909, this Beaux Arts-style building was constructed to house the Hiland Exchange of the Citizens Telephone Company, which provided telephone service to the citizens of Northern Kentucky in the early 20th Century, and served as the Hiland Exchange until a new exchange was built to the south closer to the fort in 1941. The building features a buff brick exterior, a cornice with dentils and modillions, twelve-over-one and six-over-two double-hung windows on the second floor, stone trim and sills, arched window openings with one-over-one double-hung windows on the first floor, a low-slope side shed roof surrounded by a parapet, a rusticated stone base, first floor doors with decorative fanlight transoms, and quoins at the corners of the building. The building presently houses the Village Players of Fort Thomas, a local community theater organization.

Built in 1927, this building originally served as the Hiland Theater, before being converted to other commercial purposes after the theater closed in 1979, and finally having its exterior partially restored around the turn of the millennium. The building features a red brick exterior, bracketed cornice, faux mansard bonnet roof concealing rooftop HVAC equipment and a third floor addition, replacement windows, cartouches flanking the central window bay, doric pilasters between the grouped second story windows, three ground floor retail spaces, and a rear addition added behind the building’s original rear exterior wall when it was converted to commercial office space in the 1970s.

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Built as the Fifth Barracks in 1935, this Classical Revival-style building presently serves as the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center Fort Thomas, and was built as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The three-story red brick building was constructed as barracks for infantry meant to expand the capacity of the base, which by the time the building was constructed, was running out of space to expand. The building features an E-shaped footprint with a simple stone cornice at the base of the parapet, banded reveals on the first floor at the center of the principal facade principal facade of the side wings, stone belt coursing and sills, replacement windows, a concrete base, doric porticoes with fluted columns and architraves at the entrances on the principal facade, simple pilasters on the rear facade (facing Fort Thomas Avenue), and relatively restrained ornamentation on the rear facade. The building became home to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Nursing Home after World War II, and today serves as a Veterans Hospital. 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 1926, this Dutch Colonial Revival-style house feature a side gambrel roof, clapboard cladding on the roof ends and dormer, a red wire brick first floor and chimneys, a concrete base, front and rear shed dormers, quarter-circle attic windows at the gambrel ends, replacement windows, a front porch with thick tuscan columns and a low-slope hipped roof, stone sills, and a front door with sidelights and an arched transom.

Initially developed in the late 19th Century as a residential block, this group of buildings became increasingly commercialized into the mid-20th Century, with infill commercial development and first-floor front additions housing retail spaces being added to the block over time. The buildings include a corner building that started as a wood-frame Queen Anne-style house in the late 19th Century, but later saw the addition of a red brick front addition housing commercial space, a red-brick duplex built in the early 20th Century with a mid-20th Century modernist front commercial wing with a front gable roof, large windows, and stone and brick cladding, a building that started as a Queen Anne-style wood-frame house in the late 19th Century with an early 20th Century 2-story brick front commercial addition with two second-story oriel windows and a red tile hipped canopy, and an early 20th Century wood-frame house that has since been converted into a commercial building with a one-story front wood-frame addition. The commercial buildings make up part of the main business district of Fort Thomas, which developed along a former streetcar line that connected Fort Thomas and Highland Heights to Newport

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Built in 1928, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by C. C. Weber for the Christ Church United Church of Christ congregation in Fort Thomas, founded in 1907, replacing an earlier church on Forest Avenue, built in 1908-09. The church features a buff brick exterior, concrete base, front gable red tile roof with gable parapets, stone trim, gothic stained glass windows, a mid-20th Century modern storefront and canopy at the front entrance, buttresses on the side walls, and a rear sunday school building with a hipped roof and front entry porch with a decorative front facade wall with buttresses on the sides and a gothic arched front opening.

Built in 1900, this Colonial Revival-style house is clad in red brick with a hipped roof, bracketed eaves with denials, one-over-one double-hung windows, limestone trim including stone sills and keystones, a front gable with an oxeye panel in the center, brick quoins, a semi-circular side portico with ionic columns and decorative balustrades on the first and second floors, a rectangular portico with clustered ionic columns, a cornice with dentils and brackets, a decorative balustrade on the roof, doors in the central bays of the front facade with fanlight transoms, a semi-circular side oriel window on the first floor, gabled dormers, and a fieldstone base.

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.