Melvin Jones, born at Fort Thomas, AZ, in 1879, where his dad was a cavalry officer, founded Lions Clubs International in Chicago in 1917. May 16, 2011.

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

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

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 1922, this Swiss Chalet, Prairie, and Arts and Crafts-style house features a front gable roof with large decorative brackets on the gable end, stucco cladding on the exterior of the third floor, a juliet balcony on the third floor at the front window with decorative brackets and a sawn balustrade, a red wire brick exterior on the first and second floors, a rusticated stone base, replacement windows, stone sills, a two-story side bay window, one-story side oriel window with a shed roof clad in stucco, and a front porch with brick corner columns that penetrate the porch’s hipped roof and terminate in two round urns at the top, a brick railing, and a wooden floor.

Built in 1937-1938, and dedicated in 1939, this Romanesque Revival-style church was built to serve the Catholic population living in the central and southern portions of Fort Thomas. The parish has existed since 1902, when the first Saint Thomas church and school was built at the corner of Tremont Avenue and Grand Avenue, a few blocks west of the present church. The first building on the present site, which presently forms the nucleus of St. Thomas Catholic School, was built as a combination church and school in 1920-22 The church features a limestone exterior, a latin cross-shaped footprint with gable ends with gable parapets, a high central nave and lower aisles with shed roofs, roman arched stained glass windows, a front rose window, entry doors with blind arches above featuring decorative reliefs, a front door inside an arched portal with decorative carved stone details and an arched stone relief panel above the door, a blind arched arcade with doric pilasters above the front rose window flanking a central arched niche with a sculpture of Saint Thomas in the middle of the facade, a corner bell tower with a square footprint, pyramidal hipped roof, copper cross atop the roof, and arched louvers, and a semi-circular rear apse. The church today has several additional parish buildings around it, including the buildings of the St. Thomas Catholic School, built in multiple stages between 1920 and the 1960s, a rectory, built in the mid-20th Century, and the Providence Center, also built in the mid-20th Century.

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Built in 1937-1938, and dedicated in 1939, this Romanesque Revival-style church was built to serve the Catholic population living in the central and southern portions of Fort Thomas. The parish has existed since 1902, when the first Saint Thomas church and school was built at the corner of Tremont Avenue and Grand Avenue, a few blocks west of the present church. The first building on the present site, which presently forms the nucleus of St. Thomas Catholic School, was built as a combination church and school in 1920-22 The church features a limestone exterior, a latin cross-shaped footprint with gable ends with gable parapets, a high central nave and lower aisles with shed roofs, roman arched stained glass windows, a front rose window, entry doors with blind arches above featuring decorative reliefs, a front door inside an arched portal with decorative carved stone details and an arched stone relief panel above the door, a blind arched arcade with doric pilasters above the front rose window flanking a central arched niche with a sculpture of Saint Thomas in the middle of the facade, a corner bell tower with a square footprint, pyramidal hipped roof, copper cross atop the roof, and arched louvers, and a semi-circular rear apse. The church today has several additional parish buildings around it, including the buildings of the St. Thomas Catholic School, built in multiple stages between 1920 and the 1960s, a rectory, built in the mid-20th Century, and the Providence Center, also built in the mid-20th Century.

Initially built in the Renaissance Revival style in 1920, this Catholic School saw several Modern additions in the mid-20th Century. The school complex consisted of three buildings, with the oldest building, which last served as the Activity Center, having originally served as a combination church and school before the present church was dedicated in 1939, and saw the addition of six classrooms in 1925. The three-story building featured a buff wire brick exterior, large window openings with mid-20th Century aluminum windows, stone trim, a parapet with a stone cap and curved section over the front entrance, a front entrance that protrudes from the building’s facade with a decorative brick and stone surround at the front entryway, and a concrete base. The building was expanded with a two-story elementary school addition to the east in the mid-20th Century, which features a low-slope hipped roof, vertically emphasized window bays with aluminum windows and recessed stone spandrel panels, a buff brick exterior, stairways on the south facade with tall curtain walls at the entrances and ceramic tile walls interiors, a concrete base, and a one-story wing that connects it to the adjacent older building. A high school building was also constructed north of the original building in the mid-20th Century, which sits alongside Fort Thomas Avenue. The building features one story in the front and two stories in the back, large classroom windows, limestone cladding along the west facade, buff brick cladding elsewhere, a large gymnasium at one end of the building, which features three stone crosses on the exterior at the building’s entrance plaza, a concrete base, and a paved playground behind the building. The parish no longer provides a high school-level education, but continues to provide education between the preschool and junior high school/middle school levels. Sadly, the original 1920 school and church building, as well as the east addition, was demolished in the summer of 2022 to make way for additional parking.

Built in 1922, this Swiss Chalet, Prairie, and Arts and Crafts-style house features a front gable roof with large decorative brackets on the gable end, stucco cladding on the exterior of the third floor, a juliet balcony on the third floor at the front window with decorative brackets and a sawn balustrade, a red wire brick exterior on the first and second floors, a rusticated stone base, replacement windows, stone sills, a two-story side bay window, one-story side oriel window with a shed roof clad in stucco, and a front porch with brick corner columns that penetrate the porch’s hipped roof and terminate in two round urns at the top, a brick railing, and a wooden floor.

Built in 1937-1938, and dedicated in 1939, this Romanesque Revival-style church was built to serve the Catholic population living in the central and southern portions of Fort Thomas. The parish has existed since 1902, when the first Saint Thomas church and school was built at the corner of Tremont Avenue and Grand Avenue, a few blocks west of the present church. The first building on the present site, which presently forms the nucleus of St. Thomas Catholic School, was built as a combination church and school in 1920-22 The church features a limestone exterior, a latin cross-shaped footprint with gable ends with gable parapets, a high central nave and lower aisles with shed roofs, roman arched stained glass windows, a front rose window, entry doors with blind arches above featuring decorative reliefs, a front door inside an arched portal with decorative carved stone details and an arched stone relief panel above the door, a blind arched arcade with doric pilasters above the front rose window flanking a central arched niche with a sculpture of Saint Thomas in the middle of the facade, a corner bell tower with a square footprint, pyramidal hipped roof, copper cross atop the roof, and arched louvers, and a semi-circular rear apse. The church today has several additional parish buildings around it, including the buildings of the St. Thomas Catholic School, built in multiple stages between 1920 and the 1960s, a rectory, built in the mid-20th Century, and the Providence Center, also built in the mid-20th Century.

Built in 1937-1938, and dedicated in 1939, this Romanesque Revival-style church was built to serve the Catholic population living in the central and southern portions of Fort Thomas. The parish has existed since 1902, when the first Saint Thomas church and school was built at the corner of Tremont Avenue and Grand Avenue, a few blocks west of the present church. The first building on the present site, which presently forms the nucleus of St. Thomas Catholic School, was built as a combination church and school in 1920-22 The church features a limestone exterior, a latin cross-shaped footprint with gable ends with gable parapets, a high central nave and lower aisles with shed roofs, roman arched stained glass windows, a front rose window, entry doors with blind arches above featuring decorative reliefs, a front door inside an arched portal with decorative carved stone details and an arched stone relief panel above the door, a blind arched arcade with doric pilasters above the front rose window flanking a central arched niche with a sculpture of Saint Thomas in the middle of the facade, a corner bell tower with a square footprint, pyramidal hipped roof, copper cross atop the roof, and arched louvers, and a semi-circular rear apse. The church today has several additional parish buildings around it, including the buildings of the St. Thomas Catholic School, built in multiple stages between 1920 and the 1960s, a rectory, built in the mid-20th Century, and the Providence Center, also built in the mid-20th Century.

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 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.

Frisch's Big Boy cup, upside down in a tree.

On the left, 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.

On the right, 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.

This has scared the holy hell out of many a visiting player, fan and official. It's occasionally made road trips to CovCath, Bell County and the state championship in Louisville.

Melvin Jones, born at Fort Thomas, AZ, in 1879, where his dad was a cavalry officer, founded Lions Clubs International in Chicago in 1917. May 16, 2011.

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

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

Built 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 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.

Constructed in 1940. New Deal mural: www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/14221319077/

Initially built in the Renaissance Revival style in 1920, this Catholic School saw several Modern additions in the mid-20th Century. The school complex consisted of three buildings, with the oldest building, which last served as the Activity Center, having originally served as a combination church and school before the present church was dedicated in 1939, and saw the addition of six classrooms in 1925. The three-story building featured a buff wire brick exterior, large window openings with mid-20th Century aluminum windows, stone trim, a parapet with a stone cap and curved section over the front entrance, a front entrance that protrudes from the building’s facade with a decorative brick and stone surround at the front entryway, and a concrete base. The building was expanded with a two-story elementary school addition to the east in the mid-20th Century, which features a low-slope hipped roof, vertically emphasized window bays with aluminum windows and recessed stone spandrel panels, a buff brick exterior, stairways on the south facade with tall curtain walls at the entrances and ceramic tile walls interiors, a concrete base, and a one-story wing that connects it to the adjacent older building. A high school building was also constructed north of the original building in the mid-20th Century, which sits alongside Fort Thomas Avenue. The building features one story in the front and two stories in the back, large classroom windows, limestone cladding along the west facade, buff brick cladding elsewhere, a large gymnasium at one end of the building, which features three stone crosses on the exterior at the building’s entrance plaza, a concrete base, and a paved playground behind the building. The parish no longer provides a high school-level education, but continues to provide education between the preschool and junior high school/middle school levels. Sadly, the original 1920 school and church building, as well as the east addition, was demolished in the summer of 2022 to make way for additional parking.

Looks like the first string is still in. The patio in the upper right is where the big money sits.

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.

I believe they'd like to add "2007" on there somewhere. And "2008". And "2009"....

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

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

Photos from Kentucky Trivia hosted by NKY chapter on June 3rd. Photos 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 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 1890, this Romanesque Revival-style armory was constructed as a drill hall, serving as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The building features a front and rear gable roof with a red brick exterior, parapets at the gable ends with terra cotta caps, a rusticated stone base, arched window and door openings with nine-over-nine and six-over-six double hung windows and some window transoms, stone sills, large arched entrance openings on the front and rear facades with a large transom made up of multiple sections above the rear entry door and a front entranceway with concrete block infill, an iron portcullis, and small windows flanking the central solid metal double entry door. The sides of the building feature buttresses, large triple double-hung windows, and stone belt coursing, and the interior features a large open space with a cambered fink truss roof structure and wooden floor measuring ninety feet wide and one hundred feet long. The building served as the drill hall for Fort Thomas during its operation, before becoming a public recreation center upon the closure of the military base in 1964. The building has a connection to the tragic fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club May 28, 1977, with many of the dead being brought to the armory for processing, as it was the largest nearby building where the remains of 162 people who died during the fire could be brought, with three people surviving the fire but dying from their injuries in the following days and months. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in 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 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.