Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. SOCIAL STATISTICS. DWELLING-HOUSES AND STORES. The first recorded enumeration of the buildings of Cincinnati, wa made in July, 1816, when they were found to number 1070: of stone, 20; of wood, 800; and of brick, 250. Of these, 660 were tenanted by families; 410 public buildings, shops, warehouses, and offices, making up the residue. In March, 1819, the dwellings and warehouses of the city were again numbered, and found to be: Of brick and stone, two, three, and four stories 387 Do. do. one story 45 Of wood, two or more stories 615 Do. one story 843 Of these were dwelling-houses 1003 Shops, warehouses, and public buildings 887 The next enumeration of houses was made by Messrs. Drake and Mansfield, for their publication, " Cincinnati in 1826," toward the close of that year, when there were found 18 stone, 936 brick, and 1541 frame buildings. Of these, 650 were one story, 1682 two stories, and 163 three and four stories in height; making an aggregate of 2495 tenements, being all places of abode or business. In all these statements, every description of out-building is excluded, and no additions to houses previously erected are taken into account. The following list, transcribed from official reports, furnishes the buildings of 1827 and 1828: Brick, of one story 8 " two stories 131 " three do 77 " four do 1-217 Frame, of one story 29 " two stories 250-279 From this period, the enumeration of buildings was taken annually, with the following results: 1829. . 27018404061830. . 20518414621831. . 2501842.... 5371832. . 30018436211833. . 32118447351834. . 30018458531835 ......... . 34018469801836. . 3651847 . . . .11401837. . 3051848.'..".. 1305 . . 334184914541839. . 394I860. . 1418Prior to 1827 . . . 13,295 . . . . 24951827 and...