Custom Homes in Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, OH

Mount Auburn (ZIP 45219) is Cincinnati’s first hilltop suburb, rising directly north of the basin, with substantial 19th-century houses on steep, winding streets and long views back over Downtown.

Ground with that much history behind it tends to carry history underground too: earlier foundations, filled cisterns, old retaining walls holding a terrace that someone cut a century ago. A retaining structure of unknown age on a parcel you are buying is a real liability, because if it fails it is yours. We look at what is holding the ground up as part of reviewing a lot here, alongside the usual bearing and access questions.