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Built in the late 19th Century, this wood-frame Queen Anne-style house was later expanded with a first-floor red brick retail addition on the front and side in the early 20th Century as the area became increasingly commercialized. The building features a hipped roof with multiple gables, a hipped roof dormer, an arched attic window, replacement windows, asbestos cladding on the exterior of the building, a one-story bay window on the side of the house, and a one-story red wire brick commercial addition on the front of the building with a parapet, two retail spaces, and concrete base.
Built around the turn of the 20th Century, this Queen Anne-style house features a hipped roof with gable ends clad in shingles, an oxeye attic window on the front gable, a palladian attic window on the side gable, decorative brackets below the gable ends, two-story bay windows below the front and side gables, replacement windows, a rusticated stone base, a front porch with doric columns and a rooftop balcony, and a side oriel window with decorative support brackets. The house has been converted into a commercial business building, owing to the increased commercialization of the surrounding segment of Fort Thomas Avenue.
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 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 the early 20th Century as a duplex, this building was converted into a mixed-use property in the mid-20th Century with the addition of a gabled Modern front addition that housed commercial space. The original section of the building features a red brick exterior, front gable roof, arched attic window, stone belt coursing above the second-story window, stone sills, and concrete block base. The front modernist addition features a front gable roof, large windows, brick cladding, a stone wall at the center of the facade turned perpendicular to the front wall of the building, and exposed rafter ends on the side of the building.
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 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 1923, this Dutch Colonial Revival-style house features a side gambrel roof, shed dormers, wooden shingle cladding, replacement windows, a concrete block base, and a front gabled porch with an arched roof and tapered square columns.
Built circa 1900, this Italianate and Queen Anne-style building features a red brick exterior, decorative cornice with brackets, egg and dart moulding, recessed Gothic panels, and leaf motifs on the faces of the brackets, replacement windows with stone sills and lintels, and a first floor storefront with large plate glass windows and transoms flanked by two small brick pilasters with ionic capitals featuring volutes. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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 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 1948, this three-story Modern school building features a red brick exterior, stone trim, aluminum and glass block windows and storefronts, a concrete base, large banks of windows at the classrooms with stone trim frames, and a storefront at the front staircase that allows natural light to flood the interior, providing a focal point near the building’s front entrance. The building continues to serve as a Catholic elementary school for the surrounding area, and saw the addition of a large one-story modern wing to the rear around the turn of the millennium to house additional amenities and space for the school.
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 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 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.
Sydney Cooper of Highlands High School speaks to the crowd. She is one of the organizers of the rally and march, and shares why she and her classmates organized this event. Photo taken by organizer. Please credit Kentuckians For The Commonwealth.
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 1910, this Colonial Revival-style house was constructed as non-commissioned officers quarters as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The house features a front gable roof, a red brick exterior, rusticated stone base, wood-frame side addition with a shed roof and concrete base, six-over-six and four-over-four double-hung windows with stone sills, an oxeye attic window, and front and rear porches with hipped roofs, tuscan columns, wooden railings, and open pier foundations. The building presently serves as the Fort Thomas Historical Museum, 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 1915, this Neoclassical-style house features a side gable roof with a large front gable pediment over the two-story front portico, a red brick exterior, rusticated stone base, stone lintels and sills, dentils at the base of the roof of the house, a fanlight transom above a window on the south gable, a metal fire escape attached to the rear facade, a front door with decorative glass sidelights, a decorative glass transom, and a decorative header with brackets and a pediment, replacement windows, and a large two-story ionic front portico with round columns, a cornice and architrave above the columns, and a fanlight attic window in the center of the front pediment.
Built in around the turn of the 20th Century, this “free classic”-variant Queen Anne-style house features a painted brick exterior, rusticated stone base, front gable roof with half-timbering and stucco cladding, quoins on the corners, one-over-one double-hung windows, a large stained glass window on the side facade, stone belt coursing and stone sills and lintels, a tripartite front feature window with stained glass transoms, a third-floor balcony on the gable end with a ballustrade, a front porch with a rooftop balcony and balustrade, doric pilasters and grouped doric columns, brick piers, and a concrete block base, and gabled side dormers. 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 the early 20th Century, these houses feature elements of the Dutch Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, and Queen Anne styles. The houses demonstrate the high-quality residential architecture that defines the character of Fort Thomas.
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 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 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 bungalow features a hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, gabled front and rear dormers, tapered window trim, wooden shingle cladding, a rusticated stone base, eight-over-one, six-over-one, and four-over-one double-hung windows with storm windows, and a front porch with a shed roof and a concrete base.
Built in 1924, this Arts and Crafts-style side-gable bungalow features an orange brick exterior, side gable roof with a front dormer clad in stucco with tapered exterior walls, bracketed eaves, replacement windows, stone sills, a concrete base, river rock cladding at the base of the chimney and porch, a basement garage below the side porch, and a front porch with tapered brick columns, a concrete floor, and river rock railings and a river rock base.
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 1915, this “free classic”-variant Queen Anne-style house features a hipped roof, front gable clad in shingles with a Palladian attic window, replacement windows and one-over-one double-hung windows, hipped dormers on the sides of the roof, a painted brick exterior, a side addition with a low-slope hipped roof and painted brick exterior, a fire escape mounted to the north facade of the building, a front door with a transom and sidelights, and a front porch with a hipped roof, dentils at the eaves, a decorated front pediment over the front steps, brackets below the ends of the pediment, paired doric columns atop brick piers, and decorative wooden balustrades.
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-style former stables was built as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964, and presently serves as a maintenance building for the adjacent Tower Park. The building features a gabled roof with a central monitor, red brick exterior, arched window and door openings in the brick exterior, slate shingles on the roof and sides of the monitor, a rusticated stone base, and stone window sills. 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 the mid-20th Century, this three-story Modern rectory features a low-slope roof with wide overhanging eaves, a buff brick exterior, vertically emphasized window bays at the center of the building’s front facade with recessed stone spandrel panels featuring biblical symbols carved into each one, a one-story three car garage at the east end of the building, and a large concrete deck at the west end of the building. The building presently serves as a rectory for the adjacent St. Thomas Church.
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 circa 1910, this Colonial Revival-style house was constructed as non-commissioned officers quarters as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The house features a front gable roof, a red brick exterior, rusticated stone base, wood-frame side addition with a shed roof and concrete base, six-over-six and four-over-four double-hung windows with stone sills, an oxeye attic window, and front and rear porches with hipped roofs, tuscan columns, wooden railings, and open pier foundations. The building presently serves as the Fort Thomas Historical Museum, 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 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 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.
A 10 year old from Ft Thomas shares their essay on why they believe it is time to take action to protect lives by enacting sensible gun legislation. Photo taken by organizer. Please credit Kentuckians For The Commonwealth.
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 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.