WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

CINCINNATI, OH

Cincinnati - Strietmann Biscuit Co (OHPTC) Credit: Ohio Redevelopment Projects - ODSA

William Howard Taft National Historic Site is a historic house museum located in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The site is the childhood home of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States and the 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The house was built in 1835 and purchased by Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, in 1851. William Howard Taft was born in the home in 1857 and lived there until he left for college in 1874.

The house has been restored to its 19th-century appearance and is open to the public for tours. Visitors can see the parlor, dining room, library, and bedrooms where the Taft family lived. The site also features exhibits about Taft's life and career, including his presidency and his time on the Supreme Court.

In addition to the house, the site includes a visitor center with a gift shop and educational exhibits. The site offers a variety of educational programs for school groups and the general public, including guided tours, lectures, and special events.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site is a popular destination for history enthusiasts, students, and anyone interested in learning more about one of the most important figures in American history.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in CINCINNATI OH. US MID #8403900006

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin).

D Street, Rossville, Hamilton, OH Built in 1925, this Mission Revival-style house features a stucco-clad exterior, red terra cotta tile shed bonnet roofs, french doors on the front facade, a front terrace flanking a covered porch with cylindrical columns, and casement windows on the side and rear facades. The house is a contributing structure in the Rossville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

D Street, Rossville, Hamilton, OH Built in 1908, this “Free Classic”-variant Queen Anne-style house features a wooden clapboard-clad exterior, a gabled roof, a Palladian attic window. one-over-one windows, bracketed eaves, a front porch with clapboard-clad piers, a decorated front gable, and a hipped roof, a side sun porch with casement windows, and a rough-hewn stone base. The house is a contributing structure in the Rossville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

D Street, Rossville, Hamilton, OH Built in 1845, this Greek Revival and Italianate-style house features a red brick exterior, a side-gable roof, a cornice with brackets and dentils, a front porch with rectilinear columns and a rooftop cast iron railing, six-over-six double-hung windows, and a rough-hewn stone base. The house is a contributing structure in the Rossville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Davis Building, Main Street and D Street, Rossville, Hamilton, OH Built around the turn of the 20th Century, this Classical Revival-style building is known as the Davis Building. The building features a red brick exterior with buff brick trim, quoins, blind arches on the exterior of the parapet, a cornice with dentils, one-over-one replacement windows, large first floor bays with rusticated brick piers and cast iron pillars, and stone trim. The building is a contributing structure in the Rossville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Ross Street and D Street, Rossville, Hamilton, OH Built around the turn of the 20th Century, this Queen Anne-style mansion features a red brick exterior, a hipped roof with gabled dormers, a cylindrical corner turret with a metal dome and finial, one-over-one double-hung windows, decorative stone trim and patterned brickwork, a cornice with modillions, a front porch with corinthian columns and an integrated corner gazebo, a rough-hewn stone base, and a one-story rear wing. The house is a contributing structure in the Rossville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

D Street, Rossville, Hamilton, OH Built around the turn of the 20th Century, this Italianate-style house features a wooden clapboard-clad exterior, a hipped roof with gables, hipped dormers, bracketed eaves, one-over-one and two-over-two double-hung windows, a two-story semi-circular bay window on the side facade, and a wrap-around porch with rectilinear columns. The house is a contributing structure in the Rossville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Train at High Street Underpass, Dayton Lane, Hamilton, OH

High Street Church of Christ, High Street, Dayton Lane, Hamilton, OH Built in 1883, this Gothic Revival-style church was constructed for the congregation of the First Church of Christ, later known as the High Street Church of Christ and was renovated and expanded in 1923-1925, most notably with the addition of a rear educational wing. The building features a painted brick exterior, a gabled roof, gothic arched bays and stained glass windows, brick corbeling, two octagonal towers on the front facade flanking the entrance bay with steeply-pitched hipped roofs and finials, buttresses, and a rear educational wing with one-over-one windows. The building is a contributing structure in the Dayton-Campbell Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building presently is home to the congregation of the New Hope Baptist Church.

Dorona Apartments, High Street and 6th Street, Dayton Lane, Hamilton, OH Built in 1907, this Beaux Arts-style building was constructed for Joseph W. Doron as an investment property, and is known as the Dorona Apartments. The building features a buff brick and red brick exterior, a rusticated base, stone trim, a cornice with brackets and dentils, three-story porches with cylindrical columns and wooden balustrades, one-over-one replacement windows, decorative trim surrounds at the entrance doors with oxeye transoms, festoons, and ionic pilasters, and buff brick quoins. The building is a contributing structure in the Dayton-Campbell Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building presently houses Haven House, a homeless shelter.

Contact WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

telephone: 5136843262
website: http://www.nps.gov/wiho

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
2038 AUBURN AVE
CINCINNATI
OH
45219

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MID #	8403900006
Name	WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
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Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Midwest
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LAT/LONG	39.119525, -84.508206
CODES	FIPS State Code: 39 FIPS County Code: 061 US Census Tract: 002200 US Census Block: 2005