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.

Many students brought home made signs to the rally and march. Photo taken by organizer. Please credit Kentuckians For The Commonwealth.

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.

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 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 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 1941, this Art Moderne-style building was built to house the Citizen’s Telephone Company Hiland Exchange, and replaced the earlier phone exchange further north along Fort Thomas Avenue. The building features a red flemish bond brick exterior with a limestone-clad base, low slope roof surrounded by a parapet with a stone cap, a series of five window bays infilled with glass block in a decorative pattern on two levels at the center of the front facade, separated by fluted limestone pilasters, with contrasting stone spandrel panels that feature bells and telephones above the upper row of windows, and closed-up window bays with recessed stacked bond brick spandrel panels on the side and rear facades of the building. The building remains in active service as a telecommunications exchange, providing communication services to the surrounding area of Campbell County.

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 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 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 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 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 1941, this Art Moderne-style building was built to house the Citizen’s Telephone Company Hiland Exchange, and replaced the earlier phone exchange further north along Fort Thomas Avenue. The building features a red flemish bond brick exterior with a limestone-clad base, low slope roof surrounded by a parapet with a stone cap, a series of five window bays infilled with glass block in a decorative pattern on two levels at the center of the front facade, separated by fluted limestone pilasters, with contrasting stone spandrel panels that feature bells and telephones above the upper row of windows, and closed-up window bays with recessed stacked bond brick spandrel panels on the side and rear facades of the building. The building remains in active service as a telecommunications exchange, providing communication services to the surrounding area of Campbell County.

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 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 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 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 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 around the turn of the 20th Century, this “free classic”-variant Queen Anne-style house features a painted brick exterior, front gable roof with scalloped shingle cladding on the gable ends, an attic window with ionic pilasters and a cornice above, wide overhanging eaves, a cornice with festoons and egg and dart moulding, a rusticated stone base, stone lintels and sills, replacement windows, a first floor picture window with a decorative glass transom, a front porch with a hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, cornice with festoons and egg and dart moulding, doric columns, and a rusticated stone base, and two front doors. The house, originally a single-family residence, has been converted into a duplex.

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.

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 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 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.

Photos from Kentucky Trivia hosted by NKY chapter on June 3rd. Photos taken by organizer. Please credit Kentuckians For The Commonwealth.

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 around the turn of the millennium, this commercial complex replaced an earlier block of commercial buildings on the same site, most of which were built in the mid-20th Century. The postmodern-style complex features elements of the Tudor Revival style, including half-timbering on the gable ends and exterior panels, stone trim and red brick exteriors, and a plaza at the corner of Fort Thomas Avenue and Lumley Avenue with a clocktower made of an open steel structure with stone base piers.

Built in the mid-20th Century, this modern commercial building houses the Gross Insurance Agency on the second floor, and the Fort Thomas Drug Center, a Pharmacy, in the ground-level commercial space. The building features a buff brick exterior, concrete base, stone panels and a prow oriel window at the entrance to the second floor, a corner-wrapping ribbon window on the second floor, aluminum cladding around the first floor storefront and canopy, and red brick cladding on the rear and side facades.

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 around the turn of the 20th Century, this Queen Anne-style building features a side gable roof, painted brick front facade, unpainted red brick side facades, a front gable with a blind arch that once housed an arched attic window, a front oriel window, aluminum canopies, stone lintels and sills, replacement windows, vinyl cladding at the former location of a decorative cornice, and a first-floor front addition with a hipped roof, vinyl cladding, and several former retail spaces. 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 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 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 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 1902, this Queen Anne-style cottage features a hipped roof with front and side gables, painted brick exterior, a semi-circular second-story front stained glass window, a wrap-around porch with a hipped roof, curved corner, and ionic columns, arched attic windows on the side gables, one-over-one double-hung windows, and a rusticated stone base.

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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.