Mount Pleasant, Fort Thomas, c 1901

Mt. Pleasant was built 1830 by William Richard Taylor Taliaferro. Land grant of 1000 acres from government to a Mr. Muse and bought from him or his heirs by Washington Berry. At Mr. Berry's death his daughter Alice Berry Taliaferro (wife and first cousin) inherited about 150 acres. W.R.T. (assumed to be William Richard Taylor) Taliaferro bought another heir out, another 150 acres. Slaves were used to clear the ground and the wood was hauled to a lumber mill to build the home.

 

Taliaferro Home		Fort Thomas Residence

 

Briarcliff	Artistic Homes	Allen Home

 

C. C. Weber home Architect C. C. Weber's drawing	Methodist Parsonage, 1901	Carmel Manor, 1952 Thanks to Mary Seifert Kaiser for this one.

 

Private Residences	Originally the home of Katherine Tabb, built in 1908. E. A. Weber, architect.	Dr. F. H. Southgate Home, 1927, on Bivouac

 

It says it had a two-car garage with a filling station
Cincinnati Enquirer, August 24, 1924

  

Harlan Hubbard's home in back of 129 Highland Avenue	The View from Harlan Hubbard's [Wikipedia] Fort Thomas home.

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) at this site.

You can also visit www.harlanhubbard.com.

 

Mr. H. M. Stegeman, circa 1919	Fort Thomas Scene, c. 1920's	House for Sale, July, 1929

 

Sterling Avenue, 1930's
From a Facebook post by Patty Stanger Ludwig

Shaw Lane, c. 1920, both looking north

 

“The Prettiest California Bungalow in Cincinnati's Most Beautiful Suburb.”
Still standing, on S. Fort Thomas Avenue 

 

Morin-Lock Home, for a while the residence of Red Masterson, a Newport gangster.		A Fort Thomas nursing home at the corner of The Avenue and West Villa from a Facebook post by Deanna Beineke

 

Plan for the Mills Home, in the Highlands		Newman Samuel Residence Proposal, 1917 from Hannaford & Sons

 

These are the homes at the Fort in better times. from Fort Thomas Matters, also on Facebook.

 

Frank Hill 1915	50 Oak Ridge, C. C. Weber home, 1915 The Weber in Weber, Werner, and Atkins, Architects.

Christian Clay “Doc” Weber was the architect of many of Fort Thomas' buildings. Read more about him at the site of Fort Thomas Matters.

Eric Geiman tells us “This picture was taken on Grant Street. behind Woodfill Elementary. Cool info on it:  Three of those houses still stand. The one in the far right corner caught on fire in the early 2000's but the new house was built on top of the original foundation. The house on the left (behind the tree) is a Sears and Roebucks house called 'The Starlight' [external link].” Thanks, Eric.

 

Somewhere in Fort Thomas, c. 1920

 

Fort Thomas, 1914		Soldier at a Fort Thomas home

Thanks! to Dave Remley for the five images above.

The Seiler Home in Fort Thomas, 1953	The Chinese Bedroom	Kitchen	Rumpus Room

North on Newman	South on Newman	Vista View Subdivision, off Newman
August, 1955. Read more details on these four here.

Two very different images, from roughly the same spot. On Newman, going south, south of Lilac. Ben Kettler on the left.
From a Facebook post by J. E. Venneman	From a Facebook post by Bev Achzehner Harber

 

Looking West down Highland toward Newman	Looking northwest, near what is now Highland and Highview
Looking northeast at Newman and Highland	Looking northwest, near what is now Highland and Highview
The above four pictures are taken of the Klaine Estate, 75 acres north of Highland, and east of Newman that originally comprised over 1,000 acres. Covington's Villa Madonna College, later Thomas More, bought it in 1948, with the idea of relocating their campus, but sold it to developers in April of 1955, for building Vista View Subdivision. The relocated school was going to be named Assumption.
The Catholic News Service, March 20, 1950

 

	Kentucky Post, May 27, 1911	Kentucky Post, May 27, 1911	Kentucky Post, April 29, 1911
	Briar Cliff - two words - lots for sale. “Only 28 minutes from Fountain Square”

 

“Briarcliffe, in Fort Thomas, near Covington”
Kurt Meier looks back into the history of Briarcliff, here.
 

Fort Thomas Residences	Home of war hero Samuel Woodfill	The Megerle Model Home, on East Vernon, 1931

Carmel Manor earlier,  the Kinney Mansion	The Kinney Mansion from a 1969 Caroline Williams sketch from a George Smed Jr. posting on Facebook	Floor Plan of the Kinney Mansion

  You know about the buried treasure at Carmel Manor, right?

 

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 at this site.