Homes, Kenton County, Kentucky

Home of Jesse Root and Hanna Simpson Grant, parents of Ulysses S. Grant
Built in 1850; the Grants bought it in 1859. 518 Greenup Street, Covington

Jeffrey Marks is the award winning author of the US Grant Mystery Series, and
has written an article on The Grants in Kentucky. Read it here.

The Amos Shinkle Mansion
165 East Street, Covington
Who was Amos Shinkle? Find out here.
After Shinkle's death, the building was donated to the Salvation Army in 1914.
They tore it down and erected the first Booth Hospital on the site in 1920

The Oldest House in Covington, Ky. built c. 1798
1910 | 1913
This house stood on West 9th, between Banklick and Russell

Railroad YMCA Building
standing today on Madison, south of 16th
Read about the Grand Opening, here.

Carneal House, c. 1938, 1981
This house was built in 1815, and was the first brick house built Covington.
There's a tunnel that leads to the river, but it likely was not used as a path of the Underground Railroad

Frank Duveneck's birthplace;
12th and Greenup in Covington.
Frank Duveneck (1849-1919) may be Covington's most famous son.
A world renowned artist, you can find more about his work here.
You can get a short biography of Duveneck here.
You can see collections of his paintings at both the Mary Ann Mongan Library
in Covington, at Fifth and Scott, or at the Cincinnati Art Museum, near Mount Adams.

left, se corner of Greenup and 3rd
right, Kenny's Parking at 224 Greenup
both, March 22, 1981

The pdf's in the set below are all the work of Mr. Chuck Bricking, who published Covington Heritage in 1980. The book covers virtually all of Covington's landmark homes, and gives both biographical and architectural information on each. Good stuff.
Albert Koett 515 Russell St.	William Devou Behringer-Crawford	Dan Beard 322 3rd St
Benjamin Graziani 326 E. Second St	J. D. Shutt 26 West Sixth	John B. Nienaber 327 Riverside Dr.
Jonathon David Hearn end of 5th Street at the Licking River	Robert Knox Sumerwell n.w. corner of Russell & Covington	John R. Coppin where the 9th district school is in Latonia
Charles McLaughlin 321 Riverside	Richard Pretlow Ernst 401 Garrard Street	Thomas Sanford 1026 Russell
John White Stevenson 4th and Garrard	Harriet Albro 1041 Russell St.	William E. Ashbrook 1010 Russell
John G. Carlisle 1533 Garrard	Haven Gillespie 509 Montgomery	Frederick A. Laidley 404 E. Second Street
Fallis-Lovell 412 East Second St.	Ranson Home 201 Garrard	Ignetious Droege 1213 Greenup
William Wayman 18 E. Fourth Street	Jess Root Grant 518-20 Greenup	Thomas Kennedy at the foot of Garrard
Daniel Henry Holmes Holmes High School site	Gano-Southgate 405 E. Second Street	Charles S. Fisk 1011 Russell
Amos Shinkle East Second Street		John Flavel Fisk 13 West 11th Street


Porch	Living Room	Entrance

Dining Room	Master Bedroom	Kitchen
These are from a 1954 pictorial feature on a home in Kenton Hills belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wooton. Note the view of downtown Cincinnati in the porch scene in the upper left.