An English Village, an American Landmark

There is nowhere else in America quite like Mariemont. Planned in 1921 by the philanthropist Mary Emery and the renowned town planner John Nolen, the village was conceived as a National Exemplar — proof that an American community could be built with the order, beauty, and neighborliness of an English Garden City. What rose on these wooded bluffs looks for all the world like a corner of the Cotswolds set down ten miles east of downtown Cincinnati.

The architecture tells the story at a glance: half-timbered facades and dark exposed beams against warm stucco and brick, leaded-glass casements, stone doorways, herringbone brickwork underfoot. Tree-canopied streets curve toward a formal town square where a fountain plays and the Mariemont Inn has kept its watch since 1926. On summer evenings, the carillon at Dogwood Park rings out over the rooftops — one of the few working bell towers of its kind in the country — and the marquee of the Mariemont Theatre glows above Wooster Pike as it has for generations.

The nation has taken formal notice. Mariemont was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007 — an honor reserved for places of exceptional national significance — and in 2008 the American Planning Association named it one of America's Great Neighborhoods.

For a business, all of this beauty is also plainly practical. Mariemont's residents are loyal, prosperous, and within a stroll of every storefront in the village. Wooster Pike carries the Cincinnati eastside past your door, and downtown is fifteen minutes away. Few addresses anywhere offer this combination: the charm of a historic village, the discipline of a masterplan, and the customer base of a major American city.