Built around the turn of the circa 1900, this Queen Anne-style house features a red brick exterior, hipped roof with a front gable clad in scalloped shingles with a palladian attic window, replacement windows, a rusticated stone base, a front porch with a hipped roof and doric columns, a front picture window with a decorative glass transom, and a double front entry door with decorative glass lites.

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 between the late 19th Century opening of Fort Thomas and World War II, these commercial buildings make up the Midway Commercial District, which sits adjacent to the former military installation at Fort Thomas. The buildings are all within the Fort Thomas Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Built in the mid-20th Century, this Modern armory was constructed around the time Fort Thomas was decommissioned, and serves as the main United States Army Reserve center for Campbell County, Kentucky. The building features a series of low-slope gabled and shed roofs of varying heights, concrete pilasters, red brick exterior, opaque spandrel panels, steel and aluminum windows, a concrete base, and a recessed front entry porch. The building is an excellent and well-preserved example of a mid-20th Century modern armory building.

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-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 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 early 20th Century, this Dutch Colonial Revival-style house formerly served as the rectory for the St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church across the street. The house features a side gambrel roof, painted brick exterior, gabled dormers, replacement windows, a rusticated stone base, stone sills, a front door with a transom and sidelights, and a front porch with a low-slope hipped roof, fluted doric columns, and a concrete floor.

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 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.

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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 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 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 1908-09, this Egyptian Revival and Mediterranean Revival-style masonic building was designed by C. C. Weber for Freemasons living in Fort Thomas. The building features a red tile hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, a stucco-clad exterior, rusticated stone base, painted brick chimney with a tapered side, an Egyptian-style front entrance vestibule with a flared top, tapered walls, and cartouches flanking the front entrance door, a front double entrance door with a stained glass transom, stained glass windows on the front of the building, and tapered buttresses on the sides of the building. The building continues to serve as the Masonic Lodge for freemasons in Fort Thomas.

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 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 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 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 1910, this Arts and Crafts-style house features a hipped slate roof, red wire brick exterior, replacement windows, bracketed eaves, a concrete base, enclosed side porch with doric columns, a rusticated stone wall at the front terrace, a rear addition with a low-slope shed roof, and a side addition clad in clapboard siding with a gabled roof.

Built in the early 20th Century, these houses feature elements of the Arts and Crafts and Tudor Revival styles, including wire brick exteriors, asymmetrical massing, arched porch openings on the same side, arched front doors with decorative canopies, and prominent front chimneys. The houses demonstrate the high-quality residential architecture that defines the character of Fort Thomas.

Built in the mid-20th Century as a convent, this two-story Modern building features a buff brick exterior, low-slope roof with wide overhanging eaves, a large bank of windows on the front facade, framed by two extending walls and the roof above, a cantilevered roof canopy at the front entrance, a concrete base, a rear concrete deck, and transoms and sidelights at the front entry door. The building houses a chapel and office space for the church.

From the top of the south roadcut, probably Pioneer Valley Submember

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.

In the shales of the upper Brent Submember.

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 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 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 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 circa 1890, this Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style building features a red brick exterior, rear shed roof, simple cornice that terminates at brick corbels at the corners of the building, finials atop the roof, third floor windows with decorative clinker brick arched panels framed by limestone trim, limestone lintels and sills, a second-story oriel window with dentils and decorative trim on the spandrel panels below the windows, replacement windows, a rusticated stone base, and a first floor retail storefront with cast iron pilasters, plate glass windows, and stained glass transoms. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

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.

right after I read this there was a lady walking her dog through the cemetery. but who am I to judge someone for disobeying a sign . . .

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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 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 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 the mid-20th Century, this Modern armory was constructed around the time Fort Thomas was decommissioned, and serves as the main United States Army Reserve center for Campbell County, Kentucky. The building features a series of low-slope gabled and shed roofs of varying heights, concrete pilasters, red brick exterior, opaque spandrel panels, steel and aluminum windows, a concrete base, and a recessed front entry porch. The building is an excellent and well-preserved example of a mid-20th Century modern armory building.