Custom Homes in Hamilton, OH

Hamilton (ZIP 45011) is the Butler County seat, a substantial city built on both banks of the Great Miami River, with a 19th-century core, historic residential streets and considerable variety in its housing stock.

The river is the defining physical fact: on ground near it, elevation and drainage govern the foundation, the first-floor height and the insurance, determined by a surveyor and the floodplain administrator. On the older residential streets there is a second consideration: where a parcel falls within an area the city treats as historically significant, how a new house meets the street may be reviewed. Both get established before design rather than at permit.