Cat’s Cradle is a Victorian Queen Anne, a popular architectural style from about 1870 to 1910, built in 1896 in the University Heights area of Cincinnati, Ohio. Records at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library at the Museum Center at Union Terminal indicate that Cat’s Cradle is on the City of Cincinnati's inventory of architecturally historic homes (for its Venetian Palladian columns on the front windows). Another noteworthy architectural feature is the cupola/turret portion of the front porch.Preceded by the Jacobs family who built the house and the Flaherty family, the Donnellys are only the third family ever to occupy the house, having moved there in 1987.The property used to include out buildings, including a carriage house, barn, and chicken coop. |