Jackie posted a picture from a recent trip to the old St. Francis Hospital. On my way back to Central Fairmont School a few weeks back I took this photo, thinking I might need a shot of it one day.
Located at 1860 Queen City Avenue and completed in 1889, it was "intended chiefly for chronic and incurable cases". (Wouldn’t you just love being told you were going there?) It was expanded many times, however the original building is attributed to architect George W. Rapp. That fact I didn’t learn until today.
Central Fairmont School at 2475 White Street is also pretty cool looking. Designed by Edward H. Dornette, it was completed in 1908. Stay tuned for more on this school and actually all the Historic Public Schools of Cincinnati in the coming months.
Historic photo from Library’s Cincinnati Memory Project.
Title of the post alludes to a line by Willow in the classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, "Once More, With Feeling."
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3 comments:
That Central Fairmount School is really cool. The location is also interesting, hidden on a steep hill halfway down from Harrison to Queen City. That is a totally fascinating part of town.
Fire bad. Buildings pretty.
Sorry - Buffy references make me happy. :)
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