Mount Pleasant, Fort Thomas, c 1901
House for Sale, July, 1929
left,
Private Residences, Fort Thomas
right,
Artistic Homes, Fort Thomas
Dr. F. H. Southgate Home, 1927
on Bivouac
Harlan Hubbard's home in back of 129 Highland Avenue
There are oral history interviews with Hubbard that have been transcribed. You
can read them, but need to search for "Harlan Hubbard" (use the quotes)
when you get here. A site devoted to the work of
Hubbard is here, and
last
but not least, you'll want to visit
www.harlanhubbard.com.
Mr.
H. M. Stegeman, circa 1919
Fort Thomas Scene, c. 1920's
Shaw Lane, c. 1920
"The Prettiest California Bungalow in Cincinnati's Most Beautiful Suburb."
Vista View Subdivision, off Newman
August, 1955
Read more details here.
"Briarcliffe, in Fort Thomas, near Covington"
Kurt Meier looks back into the history of Briarcliff, here.
Carmel Manor
earlier, the Kinney Mansion
|
Eli Kinney, a Cincinnati banker, was one of the earliest settlers of the Fort Thomas area, whose three-story stone house was built about 1867. He died in 1884, at age 71. The original house had several other owners before the Carmelite Nuns bought, renovated it and dedicated it, in ceremonies on December 13, 1949. |
Residences at Ft.
Thomas, Kentucky
This card says the "Powells"
live in the house on
the right, the "Wheats" in the house on the left, and is from
1915.
It used to be a common practice
for the L&N Railroad
company magazine to publish pictures of its employees homes.
Here's one in Fort Thomas, around 1926.
The View from Harlan Hubbard's Fort Thomas Home
The City of Fort Thomas published
this list
(pdf) of seven really old trees in Fort
Thomas, but none of them appear on Kentucky's state-wide list of biggest
trees in the state. You can find that list
here.
