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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Queen City Survey on Vacation!
I'm outta here for a week. I'll have a post next Thursday for the weekend activities but otherwise, you are on your own. Try not to wreck the 'Nati while I'm gone.
Weekend Warm-Up: July 10 – 12
My recommendations for something to do this weekend.
Queen City Survey is on vacation!
So I am directing you to check out BuyCincy’s “Enjoy Your Weekend” post to get the lowdown on this weekend’s activities. Queen City Survey’s Weekend Picks include: Spring Grove Weekend Walkabout, the ARCHITREKS’ West Over the Rhine “Outside-In” Walking Tour, and the More Great Cincinnati Families Lecture. Again, go over to BuyCincy for the details.
This weekend’s Fountain Square line-up includes:
Friday
MidPoint Indie Summer at 7:00 PM and Singer Songwriter Night at 10:00 PM. Performers this week include the Pomegranates. Check website for complete list of performers.
Saturday
Bigg’s Family Day from 1:00 – 2:30 PM. This week’s theme: Transportation
P&G Movie Night begins at 7:30 PM. This week’s movies: Nanny McPhee & Peter Pan
Sunday
Gospel Sunday begins at 5:00 PM and Smooth Sunday begins at 7:00 PM. Check website for complete list of performers.
See sidebar for additional links.
Queen City Survey is on vacation!
So I am directing you to check out BuyCincy’s “Enjoy Your Weekend” post to get the lowdown on this weekend’s activities. Queen City Survey’s Weekend Picks include: Spring Grove Weekend Walkabout, the ARCHITREKS’ West Over the Rhine “Outside-In” Walking Tour, and the More Great Cincinnati Families Lecture. Again, go over to BuyCincy for the details.
This weekend’s Fountain Square line-up includes:
Friday
MidPoint Indie Summer at 7:00 PM and Singer Songwriter Night at 10:00 PM. Performers this week include the Pomegranates. Check website for complete list of performers.
Saturday
Bigg’s Family Day from 1:00 – 2:30 PM. This week’s theme: Transportation
P&G Movie Night begins at 7:30 PM. This week’s movies: Nanny McPhee & Peter Pan
Sunday
Gospel Sunday begins at 5:00 PM and Smooth Sunday begins at 7:00 PM. Check website for complete list of performers.
See sidebar for additional links.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
This Day in Cincinnati History
July 7, 1915 – Windstorm
From the Ohio History Central Online Encyclopedia:
“A vicious wind and rainstorm swept southwestern Ohio on the evening of Wednesday July 7, 1915. The death toll of 38 at Cincinnati is the greatest known in Ohio for a windstorm in which no tornadoes were involved. The wind caused extensive damage throughout Cincinnati and in nearby communities. There were no reports of tornadoes and the damage was all toward one direction, so the wind is presumed to have been the result of thunderstorm microbursts.
“Homes, apartment houses, and commercial buildings were demolished or unroofed by the winds. Wires, signs, trees, cars, and streetcars were blown over in downtown Cincinnati. Most of the deaths were in collapsed buildings although three men died when a train carrying racehorses was blown from the tracks at Terrace Park. An uncertain number of people drowned in overturned boats in the Ohio River. The greatest tragedies developed in the collapse of buildings along West Sixth Street and a house on West Eighth. Eighteen people died in the collapse of five buildings on Sixth Street and another 11 people died when two nearby houses collapsed. Outside of Cincinnati, there was extensive wind damage at Washington Court House and Wilmington, and floods washed out hundreds of bridges in Montgomery County.”
Click here for photos from the Ohio History Central Online Encyclopedia.
Images from the Library’s Cincinnati Memory Project.
For more images from the Cincinnati Memory Project of the damage from the July 7 ‘tornado’ (which is what they called it) and a tornado that struck on March 11, 1917, click here.
“A vicious wind and rainstorm swept southwestern Ohio on the evening of Wednesday July 7, 1915. The death toll of 38 at Cincinnati is the greatest known in Ohio for a windstorm in which no tornadoes were involved. The wind caused extensive damage throughout Cincinnati and in nearby communities. There were no reports of tornadoes and the damage was all toward one direction, so the wind is presumed to have been the result of thunderstorm microbursts.
“Homes, apartment houses, and commercial buildings were demolished or unroofed by the winds. Wires, signs, trees, cars, and streetcars were blown over in downtown Cincinnati. Most of the deaths were in collapsed buildings although three men died when a train carrying racehorses was blown from the tracks at Terrace Park. An uncertain number of people drowned in overturned boats in the Ohio River. The greatest tragedies developed in the collapse of buildings along West Sixth Street and a house on West Eighth. Eighteen people died in the collapse of five buildings on Sixth Street and another 11 people died when two nearby houses collapsed. Outside of Cincinnati, there was extensive wind damage at Washington Court House and Wilmington, and floods washed out hundreds of bridges in Montgomery County.”
Click here for photos from the Ohio History Central Online Encyclopedia.
Images from the Library’s Cincinnati Memory Project.
For more images from the Cincinnati Memory Project of the damage from the July 7 ‘tornado’ (which is what they called it) and a tornado that struck on March 11, 1917, click here.
Monday, July 6, 2009
'South' Walnut Hills
Seeing What's What
Beit Carr and I are working, along with some other folks, on the ARCHITREKS Walnut Hills Walking Tour that is currently being developed. We've been discussing going south from Peebles Corner more than we had before . . . along with some other changes. Friday I took a walk around seeing what we'd see. Here are a few photos. Check out more over at flickr. (Go to the Walnut Hills set and look for those saying 'South'.)
Lose by a lot on Sunday
The overcast sky on Sunday kept me from going to the pool. So I went to the Red's game again. Sat right behind home plate. Then during the spankin' I walked around a bit.
Movin' Right Along
Work is progressing at Trinty Flats at Vine Street and Mercer in the Gateway Quarter.
Walking Tour: Lincoln and Melrose
Walnut Hills
One of my favorite corners in Walnut Hills is the intersection of Lincoln and Melrose Avenues. The north side of Lincoln and up Melrose to Beecher is part of the Lincoln Melrose Local Historic District. The south side of Lincoln though also has some nice houses near the corner. All the homes are Queen Anne or Richardsonian Romanesque in style and were built between 1880 and 1910.
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849 Lincoln Avenue.jpg)
827 Lincoln Avenue (SW Corner)
A lodge of the Black Elks or, more formally, the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW) which was actually founded in Cincinnati in 1898 by Benjamin Franklin Howard and Arthur J. Riggs, a former slave and Pullman porter. Riggs’ story and the establishment of the Black Elks is an interesting one that I really didn’t know until now!.jpg)
820 Lincoln Avenue (NW Corner)
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3017 Melrose Avenue.jpg)
3014 & 3010 Melrose Avenue.jpg)
836 – 852 Lincoln Avenue
Many of these are owned by the City of Cincinnati. Building Cincinnati did an article on these homes and the neighborhood in 2007..jpg)
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As an aside, at one time, the Cincinnati Club had a location further south at 2840 Melrose for a time, now the location of the Melrose YMCA. (Link to Library’s Cincinnati Memory Project photo.)
One of my favorite corners in Walnut Hills is the intersection of Lincoln and Melrose Avenues. The north side of Lincoln and up Melrose to Beecher is part of the Lincoln Melrose Local Historic District. The south side of Lincoln though also has some nice houses near the corner. All the homes are Queen Anne or Richardsonian Romanesque in style and were built between 1880 and 1910.
841 Lincoln Avenue (SE Corner)
849 Lincoln Avenue
827 Lincoln Avenue (SW Corner)
A lodge of the Black Elks or, more formally, the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW) which was actually founded in Cincinnati in 1898 by Benjamin Franklin Howard and Arthur J. Riggs, a former slave and Pullman porter. Riggs’ story and the establishment of the Black Elks is an interesting one that I really didn’t know until now!
820 Lincoln Avenue (NW Corner)
835 Beecher Street (SE Corner)
3017 Melrose Avenue
3014 & 3010 Melrose Avenue
836 – 852 Lincoln Avenue
Many of these are owned by the City of Cincinnati. Building Cincinnati did an article on these homes and the neighborhood in 2007.
As an aside, at one time, the Cincinnati Club had a location further south at 2840 Melrose for a time, now the location of the Melrose YMCA. (Link to Library’s Cincinnati Memory Project photo.)
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