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Heinrich A. Rattermann House
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Site of the house, with a neighboring building behind
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| Location: | 510 York St., Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Area: | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built: | 1860 |
| Architectural style: | Italianate |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 80003080[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 23, 1980 |
The Heinrich A. Rattermann House was a historic residence in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1860,[1] it was a brick building with a stone foundation and elements of iron and stone.[2] It was the home of Heinrich Armin Rattermann from 1895 until his 1923 death. The most prominent German-American author in the history of the United States, Ratterman worked to solidify German-American culture; he sought to teach his fellow compatriots their culture and produced a history of German Americans in Ohio.[3]
Born in 1832 in Osnabrück, Rattermann and his parents moved to the United States in 1845. In the following year, they moved to Cincinnati, where he worked at a lumberyard for more than a decade before founding a fire insurance company for German-Americans. At the age of sixty-three, he moved into a house on York Street in the West End; into the late twentieth century, this three-story residence was one of the area's best Italianate houses. Among its architectural elements was a prominent bracketed cornice around the edge of the flat roof.[3]
In 1980, Rattermann's house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its connection to Rattermann and because of its historic and well-preserved architecture.[1] Despite its landmarked status, the house has been destroyed;[4] the site is now an empty lot.[5] Nevertheless, the building remains listed on the National Register.[1]
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