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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by Karli Wood When you’re hosting an out-of-town visitor and want to impress them, where do you go? A Reds game? Union Terminal? The Cincinnati Art Museum? The first place that always comes to my mind is Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. The most common reaction I get is a raised eyebrow with
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by Russell Theatre volunteers Colonel J. Barbour Russell & the Russell Theatre Colonel J. Barbour Russell, a flamboyant, well-known Maysville businessman who made his early fortune in the grocery business, decided to erect a movie palace in downtown Maysville in 1928 to expand his real estate holdings. A president of both the Maysville Rotary
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Update 8/14/24: Cincinnati Preservation has transferred property ownership to Eckstein Cultural Arts Center, and applauds the organization’s stewardship and plans with the site! Cincinnati Preservation Association Purchases Endangered School! Eckstein School – Glendale, Ohio Update 9/21/2021: Cincinnati Preservation Association Announces Agreement to Purchase the Eckstein School. “The National Trust for Historic Preservation
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