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Madisonville, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Italianate and Federal houses line Madison Road at Stewart Avenue, the old centre of Madisonville, a neighborhood of northeastern Cincinnati.
About Madisonville
Where to stay in Madisonville
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Madisonville sends visitors to its western edge for a bed and back to Madison Road for everything else. The rooms sit on the western edge, at the point where Red Bank Road turns into the Red Bank Expressway. The shops are elsewhere.
Madison Road carries the business district across the middle of the neighborhood, past the Madisonville Branch Library and the Whetsel Avenue crossing, with the Madison-Stewart Historic District a few blocks west of that and housing on the streets behind. You want the expressway end if the car matters and the Madison Road end if dinner does.
About Madisonville
What are the main landmarks in Madisonville?
The Madison-Stewart Historic District is the built centre of Madisonville, twelve contributing buildings at the junction of Madison Road and Stewart Avenue in Federal, Italianate and Eastlake work. Among them stands the Benjamin Stewart House. The Madisonville Branch Library takes a Madison Road frontage nearer the Whetsel Avenue crossing, and John P. Parker School stands back from the road off Anderson Place.
The Ayres L. Bramble House keeps apart from the rest, a Greek Revival house of 1815 on Homer Avenue that entered the National Register in 1982. Madison Road, Camargo Pike and Plainville Road meet at the east end.
What is the history of Madisonville?
Madisonville was established in 1809 and named Madison for the fourth president of the United States, the post office taking the longer name in 1826. The first cabin came earlier. Joseph Ward, a Revolutionary War veteran from New Jersey, built it in 1797 on an old trail near Whetsel Avenue, after flooding at Columbia on the Ohio River drove the family to higher ground.
Cincinnati annexed the village in 1911. Families of former slaves had by then founded Dunbar on the western edge, and the city cleared most of it in 1970 for the Red Bank Expressway.
Where is Madisonville?
Madisonville takes the northeastern corner of Cincinnati, bounded west by Oakley, south by the villages of Fairfax and Mariemont, north by Columbia Township.
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Updated September 2026