text and photos by Ripley Heritage, Inc. Originally published on RipleyOhio.net Underground Railroad sites are indicated as UGRR A project of several years came to fruition in 1985 when Ripley’s historic district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The 55-acre historic district is believed to be the largest in Ohio for […]
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https://youtu.be/AXFcNHfVNZE About the Talk In 2019 UC celebrated its bicentennial. Students strolling around campus could hardly guess their school had such deep roots. A major reconstruction of the campus in the early 21st century has left the institution where “Next Lives” disconnected from its history, in both form and function. This talk explores how
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by Margo Warminski, CPA Preservation Directororiginally published in Northern Kentucky Tribune Newport, Kentucky’s Mansion Hill is one of America’s great historic preservation success stories. And like many historic districts nationwide, its plot is familiar. From starting as a genteel subdivision to houses that have been subdivided into multiple units, and finally, to careful
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by Rick Pender The Friends of Music Hall began in 1987 with a different name. It was founded as the Society for the Preservation of Music Hall, established to support the maintenance and improvement of Music Hall, Cincinnati’s iconic 1878 performance venue designed by renowned architect Samuel Hannaford. Over the years, the hall has
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by Margo Warminski, CPA Preservation Directororiginally published in Northern Kentucky Tribune “In the late 19th Century, improvements in transportation made it more practical to develop the hillsides. It was at this time that the city of Clifton, a hillside suburb of Newport, was developed. Clifton was incorporated in 1888 by developers who chose the
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On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 6:00 PM, CPA Executive Director Paul Muller presented the first Preservation at Home talk, entitled “Isaiah Rogers, Architect in Cincinnati and Beyond.”
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by Maya Drozdz The oldest of three children, Lucy Orintha Oxley was born in 1912 to highly educated parents. Her mother, Esther (Turner) Oxley, was a teacher and an alumna of the Howard University Teachers’ College, who had done post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and at Cornell University. Edmund, her father, was
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by Paul Muller, CPA Executive Director This is a story about John Lea, a Cincinnati notary and amateur geologist, who was obsessed with finding the cause of Choler, and about Henry Boyd, a highly successful Cincinnati furniture maker and former enslaved Kentuckian. In 1832 Henry Boyd, determined that water was the source of cholera transmission.
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by Lilly Arthur When my husband Matt and I began the search for our first home, we quickly discovered that we have some different priorities, but the major things we agreed on were that we were looking for an older home and that we wanted to live in Walnut Hills, one of the oldest
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