The Old Cheviot Hotel

A brown sign surrounded by flower bushes.

Located in the heart of Cheviot, a town just west of Cincinnati, this marker memorializes the Cheviot Hotel. Although the building began as merely a meager wood hut in 1800, its location on a busy thoroughfare with ever-increasing traffic to and from Cincinnati spurred Cheviot’s founder, John Craig, to convert the hut into a tavern to serve weary travelers. The tavern changed ownership in 1826 and rebranded as the Cheviot Hotel, quickly becoming a mainstay in the town as a popular meeting place for locals. However, the hotel was unable to survive Prohibition, and it permanently closed in 1923.

A brown sign on a stone path surrounded by flower bushes. In the background is a while brick building with a blue roof.
The marker, located on Harrison Avenue in Cheviot. Today, the site of the hotel is home to a bank.
A brown sign titled "The Cheviot Hotel."
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