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Eastwood Historic District, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Eastwood Historic District loops maple-lined streets into a flattened hexagon between Oakley and Madisonville, Cincinnati, holding ten Sears kit houses.
About Eastwood Historic District
Where to stay in Eastwood Historic District
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Deed restrictions written in 1924 held every Eastwood lot to a first class residential neighborhood with forty foot setbacks, so the plat carries houses, garages, and a single cabin, and no lodging at all. Oakley and Madisonville flank it. A base in either leaves the circle a drive down Madison Road, while Mariemont to the east suits anyone who came for the architecture rather than a lobby.
About Eastwood Historic District
What are the main landmarks in Eastwood Historic District?
Ten Sears Honor Bilt kit houses ring the circle, and no two repeat a model. The Osborn wears the stucco Spanish mission porches of the catalog, the Verona of 1923 came up under the builder Charles E. Dawson, the Martha Washington carries a gambrel roof and a fanlight door, and the Sunbeam keeps its clapboard and a shed-roofed sleeping porch above the pillars. Wilbur M. Firth drew 4900 Madison Road.
His brother Lee P. Firth designed two houses on the 5000 block of West Eastwood Circle. One cottage of 1915 came over from the Children's Home in 1937.
What is the history of Eastwood Historic District?
Thirty acres left the estate of Phoebe A. Settle in 1922. A. Raymond Kratz and Alice G. Kratz bought the farm and woods, had G. L. Stichnath survey the ground, and platted Eastwood Circle first, with Collinwood Place following in 1923 and Overbrook Place in 1924. Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. in Oakley supplied the buyers.
Hamilton County approved the annexation in 1931, and the city met on it the next year. The National Register listed the district in 2005.
Where is Eastwood Historic District?
Madison Road closes the district on the south with Oaklawn beyond it, Duck Creek Road runs along the north, and the Children's Home woods hold the east.
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Updated September 2026