You may not know these facts about Powel Crosley, Jr.:

Inventions:

• First car radio
• First refrigerator with shelves on the door
• First lighted baseball field
• First mass-produced economy car
• First fax machine

Radio broadcasting:

• WLW, the “Nation’s Station”: Most powerful in the world from 1934-1939
• Launched early careers of many stars
• First soap opera
• First broadcast from an airplane

Marketing innovations:

•  Independent local dealer network
• Moneyback guarantee for products

Pinecroft Fun Facts:

• The house’s structural system is poured, reinforced concrete.
• A carved monkey wearing headphones once capped the newel post.
• The house was built with two safes, one for liquor storage during Prohibition.
• The roof is covered with handmade tiles by the Ohio-based Ludowici Celadon Company, designed to look like aged wood shingles.
• The estate originally included a golf course, a polo field, which doubled as a landing strip, a vineyard, stables, kennels, orchard and vegetable garden.

Preserving and Celebrating Powel Crosley, Jr.’s Estate

We will be honoring founding members:  Cornelius and Janet Hauck, Alfred and Betty Moore, and Dr. Compton Allyn

Join Cincinnati Preservation Association on Friday, May 11th at Pinecroft, the beloved and historic home of famed entrepreneur and inventor Powel Crosley, Jr.    Please contact Cincinnati Preservation Association to purchase tickets or tables:  513-721-4506.  Tickets for Party at Pinecroft are sold in advance only and space is limited.  Levels of support include:  Friend $100 or Patron $125

Following the recent gift of Pinecroft from long-time steward Mercy Health, CPA will open the mansion to honor and celebrate some of Cincinnati’s founding preservationists.  Stroll through the house and grounds of Crosley’s lovingly preserved home and enjoy an evening of cocktails and dinner.

Proceeds from the event will ensure sustained stewardship of the Crosley estate and support CPA’s work to preserve historic buildings, districts, and landscapes in Greater Cincinnati.

A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available at various levels.

On Friday evening, meet renovation contractors as you shop and dine along Fairfield Avenue.  On Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm, choose from a dozen educational programs and hands-on workshops from window restoration to painting techniques to plaster repair.

Admission is free and lunch will be provided.

NKY Restoration Weekend is proudly sponsored by American Chimney & Masonry, the City of Bellevue, the City of Covington, Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance, Home School, Tiburon Energy, Tri-State Wholesale Building Supplies and CPA.

Preservation field services provided by Cincinnati Preservation Association are assisted by a Partners in the Field challenge grant from the national Trust for Historic Preservation.

Now CPA is leading a scientific effort to locate the bodies buried here and, eventually, restore the cemetery to something resembling its original look.

On July 25, Dr. Kenneth Tankersley, assistant professor of archaeology at UC, and his field class combed the cemetery with proton magnetometers, searching for artifacts deep underground. Geophysicist Dr. Russell Quick from Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., of Lexington, KY, began covering the ground with a ground-penetrating radar device, searching for graves. Landscape architect Fred Lutt of Meisner + Associates / Land Vision also contributed to the documentation effort. The work is funded by a generous donation from a friend of CPA.

Collecting the information will take all week. Then it will take several weeks to analyze the data and try to match burial sites with actual people.

CPA was founded 48 years ago to help preserve a Native American and pioneer site in western Hamilton County. Now, almost half a century later, the Fulton restoration project is bringing us back to our roots. CPA is proud to be involved in the restoration of one of Cincinnati’s most important historic landscapes and archaeological sites. Look for updates on this site and on CPA’s Facebook page.

Media
coverage:

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?NoCache=1&Dato=20110725&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=107260309&Ref=AR

http://www.fox19.com/story/15140795/one-of-areas-oldest-cemeteries-under-renovation

Date posted:
July 26, 2011

Cincinnati is home to some of the best historic architecture in the country. Unfortunately, negligent property owners are putting that history at risk.

Historic buildings around Cincinnati are falling into disrepair with dangerous consequences. Despite the City of Cincinnati’s best efforts and warnings for property owners to comply with basic public safety laws, these at-risk buildings are deteriorating due to neglect, lack of maintenance, and abandonment.

The City’s website now spotlights some of these properties in hopes that they might be saved.

“We don’t want to see Cincinnati lose its history and identity. Historic buildings are part of what makes Cincinnati so unique. But we have to balance historic conservation with public safety concerns when these buildings deteriorate,” said Ed Cunningham, head of the City’s Property Maintenance Division.

The list of at-risk buildings, and their code violations, is available under Features at cincinnati-oh.gov. This list represents a portion of the vacant and deteriorating historic buildings in the City. It is not all-inclusive and is subject to change, but it represents the most critical cases.

“The City cannot stabilize every historic building in danger — there simply isn’t the money or time for it. We hope that by singling out at-risk buildings, someone from the private sector will step forward and take necessary steps to address the immediate repairs required,” Cunningham said.

Many of the buildings are in areas of the City undergoing revitalization, and Cincinnati is ranked in Remodeling Magazine as the No. 1 residential remodeling market in the country for 2011.

The buildings featured on the At-Risk webpage are in the Code Enforcement process the City follows for all buildings found in violation of the building code. City inspectors follow a proscribed process of issuing warnings and trying to collaborate with building owners on compliance plans to prevent a worst-case scenario. Demolition of a building is considered a last resort when all other efforts to save the buildings — including criminal prosecution of the owners — have been exhausted.

At-Risk Historic Buildings: http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cdap/pages/-40642-

www.otrfoundation.org

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/pages/-41030-/

 http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cdap/pages/-40642-/

 CPA can help you with tips on purchase and rehabilitation.  Call CPA at 513-721-4506.  Continue to monitor our website for frequently asked questions and answers.

Posted:  January 28, 2011