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Fort Thomas Avenue, Fort Thomas, KY

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.

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Uploaded on September 19, 2022
Taken on February 13, 2022