National Historic Landmark - Cleveland Arcade

National Historic Landmark - Cleveland Arcade

Completed in 1890, this is one of the few 19th-century glass-covered areas in America--an engineering marvel in its day.

The building is shaped around a grand esplanade 300 feet long, surrounded by 5 tiers ...

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Zoo Historic Structures

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Zoo Historic Structures

The second oldest zoo in the United States, it opened to the public in September 1875.

Significant for the antiquity and richness of its collections and for its efforts in the propagation and ...

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Union Terminal

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Union Terminal

One of the last grand-scale terminals in the Art Deco style, it is also a masterpiece of planning by Paul Cret, architect, who worked with the firm of Fellheimer and Wagner.

At the peak ...

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Observatory

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Observatory

In the late-nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Observatory was known worldwide for its endeavors in the field of proper motions, gravitational studies, and sidereal astronomy, including double stars, nebulae and clusters.

It is nationally significant for ...

National Historic Landmark -Cincinnati Music Hall

National Historic Landmark-Cincinnati Music Hall

Constructed in 1878, this is an early civic center built in Victorian Gothic style, joining a music hall and industrial exhibition halls displaying work of important Cincinnati architect, Samuel Hannaford.

It was used for popular 19th-century ...

National Historic Landmark - Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

National Historic Landmark - Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

Built during the Great Depression, this hotel complex is one of the finest examples of skyscraper modernism in America.

The complex of the hotel and tower is a particularly coherent series of ...

National Historic Landmark -Beginning U.S. Public Land Survey

National Historic Landmark -Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

This is the point from which a rectangular-grid land survey system was established under the Ordinance of 1785, which provided for administration and subdivision of land in the Old ...

National Historic Landmark - Baum-Taft House

National Historic Landmark - Baum-Taft House

One of the earliest grand mansions with Federalist detail in Ohio, this single story structure (c. 1820) was formerly the home of Charles P. Taft, half-brother of President Taft.

In 1908, William Howard Taft accepted ...

National Historic Landmark - Adena

National Historic Landmark - Adena

Built between 1806 and 1807, Adena is an outstanding example of the domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, generally acknowledged as the first professional architect in the United States.

Situated on three hundred acres and retaining ...

National Historic Landmark-Wheelock Academy

National Historic Landmark- The Wheelock Academy

The Wheelock Academy was the prototype for tribal school systems established by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory.

Begun in 1832 as a mission school, it was named for the founder of Dartmouth ...