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Hoffner Historic District, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Eleven buildings on one Northside block make up the Hoffner Historic District, five acres of Italianate brick on Hamilton Avenue in Cincinnati.
About Hoffner Historic District
Where to stay in Hoffner Historic District
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The Hoffner Historic District covers one block, so no hotel stands inside its boundary and the bed has to be booked elsewhere. Downtown Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine hold the rooms, a few miles south down the Mill Creek valley. Hamilton Avenue is US 127 here. The block suits you if an 1890s commercial street you can read building by building beats a hotel bar, with Hoffner Park across the road to sit in afterwards.
About Hoffner Historic District
What are the main landmarks in Hoffner Historic District?
Hoffner Lodge holds the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Moline Court, one of four commercial buildings the Hoffner Historic District was listed for. Three more shopfronts run south beside it, along the east side of the 4100 block of North Hamilton Avenue, which carries US 127. Moline Court turns east behind them into a row of six two-story houses at numbers 1 to 11.
The Myron Johnson Lumber Company building closes the block on Langland Street. Eleven of the twelve buildings contribute. The Domhoff Buildings and the American Can Company Building are Northside landmarks too, and neither stands inside this boundary.
What is the history of Hoffner Historic District?
The Hoffner Historic District stands on ground John Cleves Symmes first owned as part of the Symmes Purchase, inside what was then Mill Creek Township. Ezekiel Hutchinson took the western half in 1811 and David Cummins the eastern in 1817, and Jacob Hoffner brought the two together again in 1836. His estate ran past 400 acres.
The block was built up at the end of the nineteenth century, once the Hoffner ground had been cut into lots. A Sanborn map of 1922 shows the Moline Court houses in the line they keep. The listing on the National Register of Historic Places dates from October 3, 1978.
Where is Hoffner Historic District?
The Hoffner Historic District fills one block bounded by Hamilton Avenue, Moline Court, Langland Street, and Blue Rock Street, with Hoffner Park across the avenue.
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Updated September 2026