Elk Lick House, Gothic Revival Style A Living History MuseumHeritage Village Museum is a living history museum depicting life in Southwestern Ohio through-out the 19th Century. Homes, out-buildings and equipment on the museum grounds were moved here from other locations in the region to be preserved and aid in telling the story of our recent […]
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How it StartedThe Cincinnati Historic Preservation Action Plan plan includes a chapter dedicated to providing a more equitable culture of preservation. Specifically to identify, document, recognize/designate, and preserve sites of black history. In conjunction with this plan, Cincinnati Preservation created a Sites of Black History Committee in 2022 and with local grant funds from
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Cincinnati Preservation has owned Pinecroft Mansion, the 18 acre estate of famed inventor, innovator and former owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Powel Crosley, Jr. since 2011 when it was donated to the organization by Mercy Health West. Since that time, Cincinnati Preservation has been a proud steward of the National Register of Historic Places listed
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Gilligans on the Green opened in Nov of 2023 in the Nationally Registered century-old former municipal building for the city of Wyoming. Owners Rick Pouliot and Frank Eversole are no strangers to opening local restaurants in historic buildings having done so with several others in Westwood where they have also rehabbed nearly 50 buildings. Rick
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Exceptional Sites of Cultural Preservation and Architecture Read Ohio Earthworks Part I photo courtesy earthworks.site by Sean Chaney Cincinnati Earthworks Like many other places throughout Ohio in addition to the ones mentioned above, Cincinnati once had Earthworks spread over the basin including at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking Rivers and Deer Creek. The
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Exceptional Sites of Cultural Preservation and Architecture Read Ohio Earthworks Part II Image of Mound City courtesy of John Hancock via the Ohio History Connection Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks Not far outside Cincinnati sits monumental masterpieces of landscape architecture built between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago along the central tributaries of the Ohio River. Collectively known
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Just 12 miles north of downtown Cincinnati, the City of Wyoming is listed on the National Register of Historic Places because its historic environment is significant to the architectural history of Southwestern Ohio. Wyoming’s progression of nineteenth and early twentieth century styles set amongst grand trees and green spaces creates a unique character developed primarily
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjBeKNHIdMY Shirley, Filmed in Cincinnati, is Now Out on Netflix The biopic is centered around Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1972 presidential campaign. Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress and is portrayed by Academy Award winner Regina King. Partly filmed in Cincinnati in 2021 and 2022, the location was special to
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Photo credit: Coney Island Give Today December 21, 2023 ADVOCACY UPDATE In response to the startling announcement of the closing of Coney Island and the potential demolitions of the historic Sunlite Pool and Moonlite Gardens, Cincinnati Preservation Association has the following statement: As the region’s historic preservation advocacy and education organization, Cincinnati Preservation
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