1936 Race St, Cincinnati, OH 45202 Corporate Member Spotlight: New Republic Architecture As long time corporate members and sponsors of Cincinnati Preservation, New Republic Architecture believes in our mission and are proud to support it. It’s because our mission aligns with their passion for unique historic architecture, local cultural heritage and a civic responsibility to […]
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3046 Madison Rd in Oakley 2024 Preservation Excellence Award Winner In 2024 RWA Architects won their sixth Preservation Excellence Award from Cincinnati Preservation. This time in the Commercial Project category for their work on the façade improvements to the Oakley location of Aglamesis Brothers candy and ice cream store. RWA and Aglamesis Brothers accepts 2024
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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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By Beth Johnson “A large 4-story yellow hexagon on the side of a hill on a wooded lot overlooking a creek” is how I provide a quick description of my house when I first describe it to someone. After I get a look marked with confusion and intrigue, I often explain that this was
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