Why Evanston floors need a local estimate
Evanston is a Cincinnati neighborhood in Hamilton County, Ohio, bordered by Walnut Hills, Norwood, North Avondale, and Hyde Park. It developed as a hilltop streetcar suburb between the 1880s and 1910s, was annexed by Cincinnati in 1903, and has been anchored for more than a century by Xavier University on its eastern edge.
That development era defines the floors. An Evanston estimate involves late-Victorian and Italianate homes around Dana Avenue, Montgomery Road, Hewitt Avenue, and Woodburn Avenue, often with original quarter-sawn white-oak parlor floors, wider-plank pine sub-floor in service rooms, and Xavier-area rentals where decades of student turnover have hammered the entry and stair runs.
Evanston is a Cincinnati neighborhood, not an independent city. Its boundaries run roughly from Dana Avenue south to Walnut Hills and east to the Norwood city line, which is where the addressing changes from Cincinnati to Norwood.
Xavier University sits on the east edge of the neighborhood and shapes the rental and owner-occupied mix. Many homes south of Dana Avenue have served as student rentals for generations, which compresses the wear timeline on entries, halls, and stairs.
Pre-1920 historic homes commonly have a parlor floor of quarter-sawn white oak in the front rooms and narrower pine or fir in the back service rooms. The two woods accept finish differently and need separate adhesion checks on the same job.