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.

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

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 1927, this Arts and Crafts-style house features a jerkinhead or clipped gable roof, bracketed eaves, side shed wall dormers, a red wire brick exterior, concrete base, leaded glass diamond pane casement windows, stone sills, a front balcony with decorative brackets, a metal railing, and decorative trim board, a side oriel window, a front door with a tile surround and extruded front bay with a front gable roof, and a corner porch with a tile-clad brick column, metal railing, and a concrete floor.

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

Built in 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 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 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 1924, this Arts and Crafts-style bungalow features a buff brick exterior, side gable roof with a front gable, an integrated garden gateway, an arched front dormer with casement windows, one-over-one windows, a front picture window, a front door with an octagonal window under an awning with an arched roof and paired brackets, a side screen porch, and a concrete base.

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 1867 and originally known as the Kinney Mansion, this Second Empire-style stone mansion was designed by architect J. K. Wilson, of Cincinnati, and was the home of Eli Kinney, a banker in Cincinnati. Following Kinney’s death in 1884, the house became known as Bloom’s Castle, and later was sold to the Carmelite Nuns in 1949, becoming the Carmel Manor Nursing Home, which is continues to function as today. The mansion features a rusticated stone exterior, mansard roof, towers with tall roofs topped by crosses, arched windows, an oxeye window over the front entrance, gables on the front and rear of the central wing of the house, modillions at the eaves, a northern wing with a two-story front bay window, a one-story bay window at the north end of the front facade, a porch with a hipped roof, square columns, and a front gable over the front entrance, and a shed dormer on the south slope of the roof of the house. The mansion is surrounded by multiple wings, with the oldest being built in the mid-20th Century in the modern style after the house was converted into a nursing home. The oldest addition features a buff brick exterior, a hipped roof with gables that was added around the turn of the millennium, a large chapel in the front with vertical slit windows, concrete sills and a concrete base, and a stone cross mounted to the front facade of the chapel. The other side of the mansion is the site of several sprawling wings, added in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century, which more closely mimic the exterior of the original house.

Built in 1867 and originally known as the Kinney Mansion, this Second Empire-style stone mansion was designed by architect J. K. Wilson, of Cincinnati, and was the home of Eli Kinney, a banker in Cincinnati. Following Kinney’s death in 1884, the house became known as Bloom’s Castle, and later was sold to the Carmelite Nuns in 1949, becoming the Carmel Manor Nursing Home, which is continues to function as today. The mansion features a rusticated stone exterior, mansard roof, towers with tall roofs topped by crosses, arched windows, an oxeye window over the front entrance, gables on the front and rear of the central wing of the house, modillions at the eaves, a northern wing with a two-story front bay window, a one-story bay window at the north end of the front facade, a porch with a hipped roof, square columns, and a front gable over the front entrance, and a shed dormer on the south slope of the roof of the house. The mansion is surrounded by multiple wings, with the oldest being built in the mid-20th Century in the modern style after the house was converted into a nursing home. The oldest addition features a buff brick exterior, a hipped roof with gables that was added around the turn of the millennium, a large chapel in the front with vertical slit windows, concrete sills and a concrete base, and a stone cross mounted to the front facade of the chapel. The other side of the mansion is the site of several sprawling wings, added in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century, which more closely mimic the exterior of the original house.

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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.

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Built in 1830, this rambling Greek Revival-style house, known as Mount Pleasant, was constructed for William Richard Taliaferro and remained home to generations of the Taliaferro family though the late 20th Century. The house saw the addition of a front tower with a steeply pitched pyramidal hipped roof over the front entrance door in the late 19th Century, which has since been modified to feature a simpler and less ostentatious front gable. The house features a low-slope hipped roof, aluminum siding covering the original wooden cladding, replacement windows, dentils at the base of the roof, a wrap-around porch with victorian columns, victorian sawn trim at the gables, arched trim, and an open pier foundation, a front door with a transom and sidelights, and a rear addition with a gabled roof, added in the 20th Century. The house is one of the oldest remaining houses in Fort Thomas, and is where Highland United Methodist Church was founded in the 1830s.

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

Built circa 1920, this Arts and Crafts-style cottage features a jerkinhead or clipped gable roof, an orange brick exterior, rusticated stone base, front feature window on the second floor with a central stained glass transom, bracketed eaves, hipped side dormers, a first floor picture window, a front door with decorative glass sidelines and a decorative glass transom, and a front porch with a hipped roof and brick columns.

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 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 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.