History and Stories

Preservation at Home: “History at the Forward Looking University”

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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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Mansion Hill — From Genteel Subdivision to Multiple-Units to Historic District

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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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Music Hall

Friends of Music Hall: Stewards of Cincinnati’s Iconic Performance Venue

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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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Hillside Suburb of Newport, Clifton, Agreed to Be Annexed in 1935, in Great Depression

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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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Mapping Cholera in 1849: John Lea and Henry Boyd in Cincinnati ​

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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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