Heinrich A. Rattermann House
Heinrich A. Rattermann House | |
![]() Site of the house, with a neighboring building behind | |
39°7′2″N 84°31′30.6″W / 39.11722°N 84.525167°W / 39.11722; -84.525167 | |
Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
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Built | 1860 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 80003080[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 23, 1980 |
The Heinrich A. Rattermann House was a historic residence in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1860,[1] it was a brick building with a stone foundation and elements of iron and stone.[2] It was the home of Heinrich Armin Rattermann from 1895 until his 1923 death. The most prominent German-American author in the history of the United States, Ratterman worked to solidify German-American culture; he sought to teach his compatriots their culture and produced a history of German Americans in Ohio.[3]
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Born in 1832 in Osnabrück, Rattermann and his parents moved to the United States in 1845. In the following year, they moved to Cincinnati, where he worked at a lumberyard for more than a decade before founding a fire insurance company for German-Americans. At the age of sixty-three, he moved into a house on York Street in the West End; into the late twentieth century, this three-story residence was one of the area's best Italianate houses. Among its architectural elements was a prominent bracketed cornice around the edge of the flat roof.[3]
In 1980, Rattermann's house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its connection to Rattermann and because of its historic and well-preserved architecture.[1] Despite its landmarked status, the house has been destroyed;[4] the site is now an empty lot.[5] Nevertheless, the building remains listed on the National Register.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Rattermann, Heinrich A., House, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2011-07-11.
- ^ a b Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 657.
- ^ National Register of Historic Places - Individual Resources: Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, Cincinnati, 2005-06. Accessed 2011-06-14.
- ^ Photograph in infobox.
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