Description: Mariemont is a planned community in Hamilton County, Ohio, in which the buildings were designed after an English village. The village was funded in 1923 by Mary Emery, a philanthropist from Cincinnati, Ohio. The village was named after her estate in Rhode Island. The village square serves as the community center with red brick Tudor buildings, including the Mariemont Inn and Mariemont Barber Shop. Mariemont also has one of the few elected Town Criers remaining in North America. In 2007, the Village of Mariemont was designated a National Historic Landmark. The population was 3,408 at the 2000 census. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F10_009_1
Subjects: Hamilton County (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio; Historic houses
Places: Mariemont (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Mariemont Housing Showing Architecture of 1929." Mariemont is a planned community village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. It includes two historic districts, the Village of Mariemont and Mariemont Historic District. Founded in the 1920s by Mary Emery, Mariemont exhibits English architecture from Norman to classic Georgian style. Several parks exist in the village, including the Concourse on Miami Bluff Drive, and Dogwood Park that offers carillon concerts on Sundays throughout the summer months. The village square serves as the community center with red brick Tudor buildings, including the Mariemont Inn and Mariemont Barber Shop. Mariemont also has one of the few elected Town Criers remaining in North America. In 2007, the Village of Mariemont was designated a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F10_007_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Housing; Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Mariemont (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a house in Mariemont, Ohio taken by Mattie Edwards Hewitt, ca. 1920-1929. Mariemont is a planned community in Hamilton County, Ohio, founded in 1920 by Mary Emery. In 2007, the Village of Mariemont was designated a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05498
Subjects: Hamilton County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering
Places: Mariemont (Ohio)
 

Description: The Joseph Ferris home was at one time located at 5801 Wooster Pike (US 50) in Cincinnati, Ohio on a 700 acre farm in the village of Mariemont in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Federal and Greek Revival style house, designed by Joseph Ferris himself, now has the address of 5729 Dragon Way, Fairfax, Ohio, due to the expansion of the roads going through the property. The home was originally built either in 1815 or 1820 of red brick with white trim and a large porch. The home was improved upon many times. First, a narrow offset two story addition, which may have been later connected to the main house, with the result being a grand three story home with Ionic columns supporting a portico, which today stands on .9 acres of land. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 30, 1975 and is now occupied by the Eisele Gallery of Fine Art. Joseph Ferris, son of Jedathan Ferris, was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut on September 20, 1776 and died May 16, 1831. He moved to the Cincinnati area with his two brothers, Andrew and Eliphalet Ferris. They were one of only a dozen or so families in what was then Spencer Township. He married Pricilla Knapp, with whom he had eight children; Phoebe, Andrew, Charles, Joseph, Sally (Sarah), Mary, James and Ruth. Joseph built a frame house school on his farm, the first in the area, and hired teachers, whom he paid himself, to educate not only his children, but any others who wanted to attend. He was a prominent member of the community, a Whig and a member of the Masonic Lodge of Cincinnati. His children Joseph (died December 22, 1891), Andrew (died May 8, 1890), Charles (died September 2, 1883), and Phoebe (died December 18, 1896) never married and remained living together in the family home until their deaths. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Cambridge, Massachusetts explored the area in 1880 and found many important Indian relics including earthwork remains of three forts, about 1400 skeletons, weapons such as jasper spearheads, bone and stone implements and cooking vessels. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_030_001
Subjects: Architecture; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; May Department Store Company; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Mariemont (Ohio); Fairfax (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Lake at Mariemont memorial to Mary Emery” This photo depicts the stone stairway leading from the south side of Mariemont Boat House to its lagoon. Built in near the intersection of Pleasant Street in 1930, the Boat House was intended to be a haven for boaters in the summer and skaters in the winter, but it eventually acted as a storage area for canoes and rowboats. Due to silting problems, the lake was eventually filled in by a pasture after 1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F10_010_1
Subjects: Mariemont (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Mariemont (Ohio); Hamilton (Ohio)
 

Description: Eliphalet Ferris purchased land in what is now Mariemont, Ohio in 1799. He built this brick home in approximately 1802. It was listed on the National Record of Historic Homes on 29 May 1975 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_032_001
Subjects: Architecture; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Mariemont (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Marie Mont Church, Cincinnati Churches." Mariemont is among the earliest American planned communities, the work of philanthropist Mary Emery (nee Mary Muhlenberg Hopkins) and planner John Nolen, intended as a "model town" and antidote to the dirt and density of Cincinnati. Mariemont Memorial Church, sometimes called Mariemont Chapel, was designed in the spirit of an English - Norman church, by Mary Emery and Charles J. Livingood and stands at the center of Mariemont Village, on the site of the burying grounds for the pioneer familes of Stites and Ferris. It is built of limestone obtained from a quarry in nearby Indian Hill, with a tall wooden spire covered with lead sheets. The roof is made of stone tiles, not slate. It was blown off during high winds and was brought from England by architect Louis Jallad, having previously been on the Calcot Tithe barn, which once belonged to the Cistercian monks in Kingswood Abbey and dates from around 1300 B.C. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the whole of Mariemont Village. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F16_035_1
Subjects: Mariemont (Ohio)--History; Churches--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)