Guilford School building

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Guilford School is a historic former schoolhouse, now housing commercial offices, on the east side of Downtown Cincinnati at 421 E 4th Street. The building is adjacent to Lytle Park is a contributing property to the Lytle Park Historic District.

Guilford School was dedicated May 16, 1914, [1] and named for Nathan Guilford (1786-1854), an early advocate for Ohio education. [2] The building stands on the site of Fort Washington and later also the boardinghouse where Stephen Foster, then a steamboat worker, stayed from 1846 to 1850. [3] It was designed by Frederick W. Garber.

It is now owned by Western & Southern Life Insurance.

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References

  1. "Dedication of the Guilford School, Cincinnati, Ohio: Saturday, May Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen". Bachmeyer Press. 1914. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1943). Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. Best Books on. pp. 168–169. ISBN   9781623760519 . Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  3. Jones, Kent; et al. (Jul 18, 2011). Historic Downtown Cincinnati. Arcadia Publishing. p. 84. ISBN   9780738582917 . Retrieved 2013-05-04.

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