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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 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 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.

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Built circa 1907, this Prairie-style house was designed by Vernon J. Hall and Guy C. Burroughs for the Mageer family. The house features a low-slope hipped roof with wide overhanging simple eaves, stucco cladding on the second floor, clapboard cladding on the first floor, a rusticated stone chimney, a concrete base, prairie-style double-hung and casement windows, and a corner front porch with a hipped roof, clapboard clad railings and columns, and a concrete floor.

Built as the Fifth Barracks in 1935, this Classical Revival-style building presently serves as the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center Fort Thomas, and was built as part of the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The three-story red brick building was constructed as barracks for infantry meant to expand the capacity of the base, which by the time the building was constructed, was running out of space to expand. The building features an E-shaped footprint with a simple stone cornice at the base of the parapet, banded reveals on the first floor at the center of the principal facade principal facade of the side wings, stone belt coursing and sills, replacement windows, a concrete base, doric porticoes with fluted columns and architraves at the entrances on the principal facade, simple pilasters on the rear facade (facing Fort Thomas Avenue), and relatively restrained ornamentation on the rear facade. The building became home to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Nursing Home after World War II, and today serves as a Veterans Hospital. The building is a contributing structure in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built 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 1892-93, these Queen Anne-style houses and duplexes were constructed as housing for officers at the former US Army base at Fort Thomas, which was active from 1890 until 1964. The houses feature red brick exteriors, stone lintels and sills, two-over-two and one-over-one double-hung windows with storm windows, rusticated stone bases, wooden front porches with simple square columns, hipped roofs, and open pier foundations, brick corbeling, hipped roofs, front gables and front gabled dormers, and front doors with decorative glass transoms. The houses are contributing structures in the Fort Thomas Military Reservation Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Built in 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 circa 1907, this Prairie-style house was designed by Vernon J. Hall and Guy C. Burroughs for the Mageer family. The house features a low-slope hipped roof with wide overhanging simple eaves, stucco cladding on the second floor, clapboard cladding on the first floor, a rusticated stone chimney, a concrete base, prairie-style double-hung and casement windows, and a corner front porch with a hipped roof, clapboard clad railings and columns, and a concrete floor.

Built in 1968, this Modern building houses the Fort Thomas City Government, as well as the Fort Thomas Fire Department and Fort Thomas Police Department. The building features a buff brick and concrete panel exterior, replacement windows, a large new contemporary glass curtain wall on the second floor added in 2021-22, a low-slope roof, concrete spandrel panels above and below the second-story windows, a concrete canopy at the south end of the building’s front facade, large garage bays for the Fort Thomas Fire Department with concrete columns, an integrated front plaza and planter, and a concrete base. The building was renovated and given several new contemporary design elements in 2021-22, adding onto the rear of the building and opening up the front facade around the building’s front entrance.

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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 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 circa 1907, this Prairie-style house was designed by Vernon J. Hall and Guy C. Burroughs for the Mageer family. The house features a low-slope hipped roof with wide overhanging simple eaves, stucco cladding on the second floor, clapboard cladding on the first floor, a rusticated stone chimney, a concrete base, prairie-style double-hung and casement windows, and a corner front porch with a hipped roof, clapboard clad railings and columns, and a concrete floor.

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.

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 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 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 1927, this Arts and Crafts-style house features a hipped green tile roof, an eyebrow dormer window, replacement windows, a red wire brick exterior with rusticated stone accents and trim, stone sills, a concrete base, a side porch with an arched opening, brick railings and french doors, and an arched front door with an arched canopy supported by decorative brackets.

Built initially in 1909-10, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by C. C. Weber for the congregation of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. The church features a rusticated stone exterior, front red tile shingle gable roof with gable parapets, gothic arched stained glass windows, a front narthex with a crenellated and gabled stone parapet, a front entry storefront door with a gothic arched top, buttresses, a side entry door with a stone parapet, two gothic arched windows above, and a blind gothic arch over the doors, replacement windows, a first-floor bay window on the side facade along Fort Thomas Avenue, and side and rear additions made in the early 20th Century and 1990s that feature rusticated stone exteriors and parapets, matching the architecture of the original church building as closely as possible.

Built in 1900, this Colonial Revival-style house is clad in red brick with a hipped roof, bracketed eaves with denials, one-over-one double-hung windows, limestone trim including stone sills and keystones, a front gable with an oxeye panel in the center, brick quoins, a semi-circular side portico with ionic columns and decorative balustrades on the first and second floors, a rectangular portico with clustered ionic columns, a cornice with dentils and brackets, a decorative balustrade on the roof, doors in the central bays of the front facade with fanlight transoms, a semi-circular side oriel window on the first floor, gabled dormers, and a fieldstone base.

Built between 1890 and 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 1948, this three-story Modern school building features a red brick exterior, stone trim, aluminum and glass block windows and storefronts, a concrete base, large banks of windows at the classrooms with stone trim frames, and a storefront at the front staircase that allows natural light to flood the interior, providing a focal point near the building’s front entrance. The building continues to serve as a Catholic elementary school for the surrounding area, and saw the addition of a large one-story modern wing to the rear around the turn of the millennium to house additional amenities and space for the school.

Built 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 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 1968, this Modern building houses the Fort Thomas City Government, as well as the Fort Thomas Fire Department and Fort Thomas Police Department. The building features a buff brick and concrete panel exterior, replacement windows, a large new contemporary glass curtain wall on the second floor added in 2021-22, a low-slope roof, concrete spandrel panels above and below the second-story windows, a concrete canopy at the south end of the building’s front facade, large garage bays for the Fort Thomas Fire Department with concrete columns, an integrated front plaza and planter, and a concrete base. The building was renovated and given several new contemporary design elements in 2021-22, adding onto the rear of the building and opening up the front facade around the building’s front entrance.

Built in 1948, this three-story Modern school building features a red brick exterior, stone trim, aluminum and glass block windows and storefronts, a concrete base, large banks of windows at the classrooms with stone trim frames, and a storefront at the front staircase that allows natural light to flood the interior, providing a focal point near the building’s front entrance. The building continues to serve as a Catholic elementary school for the surrounding area, and saw the addition of a large one-story modern wing to the rear around the turn of the millennium to house additional amenities and space for the school.

Built in 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 circa 1890, this Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style building features a red painted brick exterior, a cornice with small modillions and circular elements, brick pilasters with recessed bands that penetrate the roofline and terminate at ziggaraut-shaped stone caps with spheres at the pinnacles, one-over-one double-hung windows with decorative stone lintels and stone sills, with groups of windows separated by decorative pilasters, blind arches above the second-story windows with stone trim made of rusticated stone blocks and decorative rusticated keystones running along the top, and first-floor retail storefronts with cast iron pilasters and plate glass windows. 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 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.