History and Stories

by Evanston Community Councilphotos by Angie Lipscomb Photography   In 1904, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood expressed interest in establishing a parish in Evanston, a new middle-class suburb of Cincinnati where there were over 100 Catholic families, many of Polish and German descent. Permission was granted to establish the St. Mark parish in 1905. […]

by Maya Drozdzphotos by Seth Hershey Cincinnati’s neighborhoods offer a plethora of pedestrian-only shortcuts and vistas in the form of public stairs. At the height of their use in the 19th Century, over 30 miles of hillside steps once connected the neighborhoods of Cincinnati to each other. Today, there are almost 400 sets of hillside