Shield's Crossing

Shield's Crossing is a complex of buildings in the Hamilton County portion of Loveland, Ohio, United States.

[1] A large two-story frame building built in the shape of the letter "L," the house was Shield's home from its construction until 1879.

[1] An early suburbanite, Edwin Shield built the Fulton Foundry near the present house in 1851; he was one of the area's leading industrialists.

In the late 1860s, he began to build the present complex, which sits above the Little Miami River: besides the house, which he named "Christeen," the complex includes six outbuildings: a carriage house, a woodshed, a stable, a smokehouse, an icehouse, and a Gothic-styled gazebo.

[1] Key to its historic designation is its place as one of the area's few remaining examples of 19th-century suburban house complexes.