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Mt. Adams, Cincinnati
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Mt. Mt. Adams is surrounded by one of Cincinnatis finest parks—Eden Park. The park borders the hill on three sides and gives residents a sense of removal from the hustle and bustle of the city, located within the park is the Krohn Conservatory and one of Cincinnatis oldest water works projects, now part of the park. Mt. Adams landmarks include the Cincinnati Art Museum, Playhouse in the Park, Rookwood Pottery, Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, Holy Cross Monastery, the 1,491 residents of Mt. Adams have a per capita income of $79,981. Mount Adams was originally known as Mount Ida, the namesake was from Ida Martin, a washerwoman who lived in the hollow of an old sycamore tree located on a steep hill. In the early 1800s the steep Mount Adams hillside was largely barren as early settlers had cut all the trees for timber to construct their homes. In 1831, Nicholas Longworth, an attorney, purchased the mansion that is now the Taft Museum of Art. He transformed the hill into a vineyard, Longworth would become the first commercially successful winemaker in the United States, and has been called the Father of the American Wine Industry. During the 1830s and 1840s Longworth cultivated Catawba grapes, which were used in making his champagne known as Golden Wedding, the wine inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to write the poem Ode to the Catawba Wine. Contemporaries reported that Longworths wine transcends the Champagne of France, the winemaking industry around Cincinnati grew rapidly for several decades until it was virtually destroyed by downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot around 1860. The American Civil War created a shortage of manpower needed for labor. Allegedly to increase his property value Longworth donated a portion of the hilltop to the Cincinnati Astronomical Society for an observatory, when the Cincinnati Observatory opened in 1843 it owned the most powerful telescope of its kind. The hill was renamed Mount Adams in honor of President John Quincy Adams, the observatory is still in operation today, though in 1871 it was moved to its current location in Mount Lookout due to excessive smoke from downtown buildings. The old observatory later became the Holy Cross Monastery and Chapel and expanded, the monastery is now the corporate headquarters of Towne Properties – a property management company. Although Cincinnati was largely Presbyterian in its history, Mount Adams was originally a strongly Catholic working-class community composed of the Germans. The first Protestant church of any denomination to be founded in that neighborhood was Pilgrim Presbyterian Church on Ida Street, during the American Civil War two artillery emplacements were installed on the hill to help defend the city from the Confederacy. One was installed at Fort View Place and the other near the present location of the Playhouse in the Park, the Mount Adams Incline was completed in 1872 and linked downtown Cincinnati with the hilltop community. The Highland House, the hilltop resort, was a popular entertainment venue. Around that time the hill occupied by a working-class blue-collar population
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Mt. Adams (red) within Cincinnati
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Mount Adams in the summer, with downtown to the west.
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Mt. Adams as viewed from downtown Cincinnati.
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The Pavilion (a bar)
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Kroger
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The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retailing company founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the United Statess largest supermarket chain by revenue, the second-largest general retailer, Kroger is also the third-largest retailer in the world. As of December 2015, Kroger operates, either directly or through its subsidiaries,2,778 supermarkets, Krogers headquarters are in downtown Cincinnati. It maintains markets in 34 states, with store formats that include supermarkets, superstores, department stores,786 convenience stores, kroger-branded grocery stores are located in the Midwestern and Southern United States. Kroger operates 37 food processing or manufacturing facilities,1,360 supermarket fuel centers and 2,122 pharmacies, Krogers employees are mostly represented by collective bargaining agreements and many are represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers union. In 1883, Bernard Barney Kroger invested his savings of $372 to open a grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati. Pearl Street formerly existed between 2nd Street and 3rd Street, the location is now approximately where I-71 passes the Great American Ballpark. Kroger, the son of a merchant, had a simple dictum, never sell anything you would not want yourself. Kroger tried many ways to satisfy customers and he experimented with making his own products, such as bread, so that customers would not need to go to a separate bakery. In 1929, it was rumored that Safeway would merge with Kroger, in the 1930s, Kroger became the first grocery chain to monitor product quality and to test foods offered to customers, and also the first to have a store surrounded on all four sides by parking lots. Beginning in 1955, Kroger began acquiring supermarket chains again, expanding into new markets, in three months, it purchased three supermarket chains, On May 13, Kroger entered the Houston, Texas, market by acquiring the Houston-based 26-store chain Henke & Pillot. In June of that year, Kroger acquired the 18-store Krambo Food Stores, Inc. of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Back then, Krambo had started building six more stores, in late July, it purchased Childs Food Stores, Inc. of Jacksonville, Texas. Childs also had a presence in Arkansas and Louisiana, in January 1956, the company bought out Big Chain Stores, Inc. a chain of seven stores based in Shreveport, Louisiana, later combining it with the Childs group. All of these adopted the Kroger banner in 1966. In October 1963, Kroger acquired the 56-store chain Market Basket, in the 1970s, Kroger became the first grocer in the United States to test an electronic scanner and the first to formalize consumer research. Kroger built a dairy plant in Indianapolis in 1972, which was then considered the largest dairy plant in the world. Kroger exited Milwaukee in 1972, selling a few stores to Jewel, Kroger would later return in 2015 upon its acquisition of Roundys
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Kroger headquarters
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The Kroger Company
Kroger
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Kroger Marketplace in
Frisco, Texas opened in 2010.
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Kroger Value Brand
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Central business district
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A central business district is the commercial and business centre of a city. In larger cities, it is synonymous with the citys financial district. Both the CBD and the city centre or downtown may also coincide with the central activities district, a citys CBD is usually typified by a concentration of retail and office buildings. The CBD usually has a density higher than the surrounding districts of the city. The CBD is often also the city centre or downtown, Mexico City also has a historic city centre, the colonial-era Centro Histórico, along with two CBDs, the mid-late 20th century Paseo de la Reforma - Polanco, and the new Santa Fe. The shape and type of a CBD almost always reflect the citys history. Cities with maximum building height restrictions often have a historic section quite apart from the financial. It has been said that downtowns are therefore distinct from both CBDs and city centres. CBDs usually have very small resident populations, for example, the population of the City of London declined from over 200,000 in the year 1700 to less than 10,000 today. In some instances, however, CBD populations are increasing as younger professional, the Buenos Aires Central Business District, is the main commercial centre of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. The actual area was the point of first European settlement and its north-south axis runs from Monserrat in the south to Retiro railway station in the north. Its east-west axis runs from Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve and Puerto Madero, the district is the financial, commercial, and cultural hub of Argentina. Its port is one of the busiest in South America, navigable rivers by way of the Río de la Plata connect the port to northeast Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. As a result, it serves as the hub for a vast area of the southeastern region of the South American continent. Tax collection related to the port has caused political problems in the past. The Buenos Aires Human Development Index is likewise high by international standards, the term is used to refer to the business and financial area of a state capital city such as the Sydney CBD, Melbourne CBD, Brisbane CBD, Perth CBD and Adelaide CBD. The city centres of some cities, such as Townsville, Bendigo. More recently, in cities the city centre, which may or may not be distinct from the CBD, is increasingly separately identified
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La Défense, the largest business district in Europe, in
Paris,
France
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Sydney central business district
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Melbourne city centre or
Melbourne CBD
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Puerto Madero,
Buenos Aires CBD
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Cincinnati
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Cincinnati is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River. With a population of 298,550, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th-largest in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio. The city is part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area. In the 19th century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country, it rivaled the larger cities in size. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U. S and it was by far the largest city in the west. By the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping, trade patterns had altered and Cincinnatis growth slowed considerably. Cincinnati is home to two sports teams, the Cincinnati Reds, the oldest franchise in Major League Baseball. The University of Cincinnati, founded in 1819, is one of the 50 largest in the United States, Cincinnati is known for its historic architecture. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as Paris of America, due mainly to such ambitious projects as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel. The original surveyor, John Filson, named it Losantiville, in 1790, Arthur St. Ethnic Germans were among the early settlers, migrating from Pennsylvania and the backcountry of Virginia and Tennessee. General David Ziegler succeeded General St. Clair in command at Fort Washington, after the conclusion of the Northwest Indian Wars and removal of Native Americans to the west, he was elected as the mayor of Cincinnati in 1802. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819, exporting pork products and hay, it became a center of pork processing in the region. From 1810 to 1830 its population tripled, from 9,642 to 24,831. Completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in 1827 to Middletown, Ohio further stimulated businesses, the city had a labor shortage until large waves of immigration by Irish and Germans in the late 1840s. The city grew rapidly over the two decades, reaching 115,000 persons by 1850. Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal began on July 21,1825, the first section of the canal was opened for business in 1827. In 1827, the canal connected Cincinnati to nearby Middletown, by 1840, during this period of rapid expansion and prominence, residents of Cincinnati began referring to the city as the Queen City
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Downtown Cincinnati from
Devou Park in
Covington, Kentucky
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Cincinnati in 1812 with a population of 2,000
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Cincinnati in 1841 with the Miami and Erie Canal in the foreground.
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Cincinnati in 1862, a lithograph in
Harper's Weekly.
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Ohio
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Ohio /oʊˈhaɪ. oʊ/ is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, the states capital and largest city is Columbus. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, the name originated from the Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning great river or large creek. Partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the state was admitted to the Union as the 17th state on March 1,1803, Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes. Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives, Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. Six Presidents of the United States have been elected who had Ohio as their home state, Ohios geographic location has proven to be an asset for economic growth and expansion. Because Ohio links the Northeast to the Midwest, much cargo, Ohio has the nations 10th largest highway network, and is within a one-day drive of 50% of North Americas population and 70% of North Americas manufacturing capacity. To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles of coastline, Ohios southern border is defined by the Ohio River, and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohios neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario Canada, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Ohio has only that portion of the river between the rivers 1792 low-water mark and the present high-water mark, the border with Michigan has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River. Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with a flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills, in 1965 the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region. This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia, the worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, as a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States. Grand Lake St. Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the era of 1820–1850. For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles, was the largest artificial lake in the world and it should be noted that Ohios canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their emergence to location on canals. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold, precipitation in Ohio is moderate year-round
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The Ohio coast of
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Flag
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Columbus Cleveland
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List of Cincinnati neighborhoods
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Many of these neighborhoods were once villages that have been annexed by the City of Cincinnati. The most important of them retain their names, such as Walnut Hills. Neighborhoods are numbered and categorized by Cincinnati Police districts, many neighborhoods have smaller communities and/or historic districts primarily within their boundaries, and those are denoted with bullet points. Finding Aid for City of Cincinnati annexation records, Archives and Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
List of Cincinnati neighborhoods
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Map of Cincinnati neighborhoods
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Ohio River
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The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States. The 981-mile river flows through or along the border of six states, through its largest tributary, the Tennessee River, the basin includes many of the states of the southeastern U. S. It is the source of drinking water for three million people and it is named in Iroquoian or Seneca, Ohi, yó, lit. Good River or Shawnee, Pelewathiipi and Spelewathiipi, the river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous civilizations formed along its valley. For thousands of years, Native Americans used the river as a major transportation, in 1669, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led a French expedition to the Ohio River, becoming the first Europeans to see it. After European-American settlement, the served as a border between present-day Kentucky and Indian Territories. It was a transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U. S. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, Thomas Jefferson stated and its current gentle, waters clear, and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids, a single instance only excepted. During the 19th century, the river was the boundary of the Northwest Territory. Where the river was narrow, it was the way to freedom for thousands of slaves escaping to the North, many helped by free blacks and whites of the Underground Railroad resistance movement. The Ohio River is a transition area, as its water runs along the periphery of the humid subtropical. It is inhabited by fauna and flora of both climates, in winter, it regularly freezes over at Pittsburgh but rarely further south toward Cincinnati and Louisville. At Paducah, Kentucky, in the south, near the Ohios confluence with the Mississippi, Paducah was founded there because it is the northernmost ice-free reach of the Ohio. The Ohio River is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Point State Park in Pittsburgh, from there, it flows northwest through Allegheny and Beaver counties, before making an abrupt turn to the south-southwest at the West Virginia–Ohio–Pennsylvania triple-state line. From there, it forms the border between West Virginia and Ohio, upstream of Wheeling, West Virginia, the river then follows a roughly southwest and then west-northwest course until Cincinnati, before bending to a west-southwest course for most of its length. The course forms the borders of West Virginia and Kentucky. The Ohio drains parts of 15 states in four regions, northeast New York, a small area of the southern border along the headwaters of the Allegheny. Pennsylvania, a corridor from the corner to north central border
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The widest point on the Ohio River is just west of
Downtown Louisville, where it is one mile (1.6 km) wide
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Ohio River basin
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The
Allegheny River, left, and
Monongahela River join to form the Ohio River at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the largest metropolitan area on the river.
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The 1849
Wheeling Suspension Bridge was the first bridge across the river.
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Vine Street, Cincinnati
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Vine Street functions as Cincinnatis central thoroughfare. It bisects the neighborhood, as well as the adjacent Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. The street also serves as the line for the east and west sides of the city. All east-west addresses in the city start at zero at Vine Street, Vine Street and Jefferson Avenue were both realigned in the 1970s to provide a bypass around the Corryville Neighborhood Business District. Previously, Vine St and Short Vine formed a five-leg intersection with Auburn Avenue, the south legs of Vine and North leg of Auburn were removed to make room for a commercial shopping center. However, Vine St and Short Vine still divide the east and west sides of Cincinnati, the Jefferson Avenue bypass is still on the west side of the city. The north end of Short Vine connects to Vine Street at the Martin Luther King, Vine Street descends past the Cincinnati Zoo and the Vine Street Hill Cemetery. Near the bottom of Vine Street Hill, the leaves the City of Cincinnati and takes a northwestern heading through the independent entities of Saint Bernard, Ohio. In Saint Bernard, it passes beneath the Mill Creek Expressway, after a railroad crossing near Ivorydale, it meets Spring Grove Avenue. Vine Street then enters Elmwood Place and serves as the central boulevard. Vine continues in a direction through the Cincinnati city neighborhood of Carthage. The Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway crosses over Vine Street, passing on through the Cincinnati neighborhood of Hartwell, Vine Street then becomes Springfield Pike when it enters Wyoming, Ohio. Springfield Pike continues through Woodlawn, Ohio, at the north end of Woodlawn, entering Glendale, Ohio, there is a fork in the road. Most of the buildings on Vine Street are commercial, and represent the historic business district. The street is well maintained, however many of the buildings are deteriorating, Vine Street is also known for its large amount of pedestrian traffic, particularly around Fountain Square
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Vine Street in 1907.
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Vine Street in 1973.
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Corner of Vine Street and McMillan St in 2009.
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Covington, Kentucky
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Covington is a city in Kenton County, Kentucky. It is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers, cincinnati, Ohio, lies to its north across the Ohio and Newport, Kentucky, to its east across the Licking. Part of the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area, Covington had a population of 40,640 at the time of the 2010 U. S. census and it is one of its countys two seats, along with Independence. The city was incorporated by the Kentucky General Assembly a year later. Stewart Iron Works was established in 1862 and became the largest iron fence maker in the world, Covington experienced growth during most of the 19th century, only to decline during the Great Depression and the middle 20th century. The city has seen some redevelopment during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, instead, Covington was awarded a team in the new outlaw circuit, the Federal League. The city raised $13,500, with $6,000 budgeted to build the ballpark, bernard Wisehall, a prominent local architect, designed Federal Park with a capacity to 6,000. The playing field was tiny, believed to be smallest for any pro baseball park ever built, by June, Covington was seeing only a few hundred fans per contest. On June 26, the moved to Kansas City and ownership of the team reverted to creditors. Federal Park was used for other events the next few years, Covington has not hosted a professional team in any sport since. Covington claims 19 distinct neighborhoods, ranging in population from several hundred to 10,000 people, many of the neighborhoods are located in 12 historic districts that are predominantly found in the northern portion of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, Covington has an area of 13.7 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people,18,257 households, the population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile. There were 20,448 housing units at a density of 1,556.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 87. 05% White,10. 14% African American,0. 24% Native American,0. 34% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 63% from other races, and 1. 57% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1. 38% of the population,36. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the family size was 3.08. The age distribution was 25. 9% under the age of 18,10. 0% from 18 to 24,33. 3% from 25 to 44,19. 0% from 45 to 64, the median age was 33 years
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Downtown Covington skyline
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Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home
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The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge
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A view of the
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, looking towards Covington
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Newport, Kentucky
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Newport is a home rule-class city at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 15,273 at the 2010 census, historically, it was one of four county seats of Campbell County. Newport is part of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area, which includes over 2 million inhabitants, Newport was settled c. 1791 by James Taylor Jr. on land purchased by his father James Sr. from George Muse, who received it as a grant. Taylors brother, Hubbard Taylor, had been mapping the land twenty years prior and it was not named for its position on the river but for Christopher Newport, the commander of the first ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Newport was established as a town on December 14,1795, in 1803, the Ft. Washington military post was moved from Cincinnati to become the Newport Barracks. A bridge first connected Newport to Covington in 1853, and the first bridge spanning the Ohio River to Cincinnati, Newport experienced large German immigration in the 1880-90s. By 1900, Newport was the third largest city in Kentucky, after Covington and Louisville, although Newport, prohibition under the Volstead Act of 1919 resulted in a widespread illegal sale of alcohol. Many gangsters began to smuggle alcohol into the city to supply citizens, speakeasies, bribery, and corruption became a norm in Newport. Newports worst natural disaster occurred in 1937, when a flood covered a part of the city. A flood wall was completed in 1948, and remains a significant part of Newports landscape, Newport once had the reputation of Sin City due to its upscale gambling casinos on Monmouth street. Monmouth also had many stores, nice restaurants, and ice cream parlors. Investigations for racketeering pushed out the casinos, which were replaced by peep shows, many of the old businesses disappeared when parking became difficult on Monmouth Street and the commercial district opened on the hill of south Newport. A garage at 938 John Street manufacturing illegal fireworks exploded without warning in 1981, in the 1980s and 1990s, Newport made plans to develop its riverfront and core to focus primarily on family friendly tourism, instead of the Sin City tourism of the past. In May 1999 the $40-million Newport Aquarium opened, and the historic Posey Flats apartments were leveled in favor of the Newport on the Levee entertainment complex, in 1997 plans were announced for a 1, 015-foot structure called the Millennium Tower were revealed. The towers main selling point was building it would be financed by private money. The tower was expected to be completed by 2003, but investors later pulled out, today the site for the tower is a parking lot next to the World Peace Bell. Today, Newport is becoming the entertainment community of the fast-growing Northern Kentucky area while its neighboring cities--Bellevue, Newport was the county seat of Campbell County from 1797 until 1823, and again from 1824 until 1840. In the 19th century, the majority of the population lived in Newport
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Monmouth Street Historic District
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The Campbell County Courthouse in Newport, Kentucky
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The
Daniel Carter Beard Bridge is more commonly called the "Big Mac" bridge because of its resemblance to McDonald's iconic arches.
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East Row Historic District, Newport, Kentucky
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Northern Kentucky
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Northern Kentucky is the name often given to the northernmost counties in Kentucky. Historically, Trimble, Mason, and Lewis counties have also included in Northern Kentucky. Immediately on the side of the Ohio River from Covington and Newport is Cincinnati. However, the core region is relatively densely populated, with these cities surrounded by many smaller towns which have little other than a city limit sign between them. The periphery of Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties, namely the western half of Boone County, the area, primarily the three northernmost counties, has a high amount of German heritage and moderate Irish heritage, being across the river from Cincinnati. The four outer counties are primarily rural. Combined with the southeast corner of Indiana, and Southwestern Ohio, all seven counties are a part of the Greater Cincinnati area, beginning in the 1970s, many factors combined to create major growth. Its geographically central location makes it ideal for distribution centers, in addition to location, the Northern Kentucky area hosts several organizations which strive to enhance the quality of life and the local economy. The primary airport serving Cincinnati is located in Northern Kentucky, nickname, the nky Northern Kentucky is located within a climatic transition zone and is at the extreme northern limit of the humid subtropical climate. The common wall lizard, introduced from Italy in the 1950s, is an example of fauna in the area that lends a subtropical ambiance to areas near the core of Cincinnati. Northern Kentucky is considered to be within the periphery of both the Midwest and the Upland South, Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau Northern Kentucky Area Directory
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This article is about the geographical region. For the university, see
Northern Kentucky University. For that school's athletic program, see
Northern Kentucky Norse.
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Fountain Square, Cincinnati
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Fountain Square is a city square in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1871, it was renovated in 1971 and 2005 and currently features many shops, restaurants, hotels, an Indian mound stood at the present site of Fountain Square when the first white settlers arrived. Fountain Square has been the center of Cincinnati since 1871. The square, which replaced a butchers market, was a gift from Henry Probasco in memory of Tyler Davidson, Probasco traveled to Munich and commissioned a bronze allegorical fountain from Ferdinand von Miller named The Genius of Water. Originally, the square occupied an island in the middle of Fifth Street with buildings to the north and south. It is used for lunch-breaks, rallies, and other gatherings, in addition to the renovations, many buildings in and around the Fountain Square district are currently being renovated and redesigned. The Fountain itself was restored and moved to a more central location in the square. After the death of his brother-in-law and business partner Tyler Davidson, Cincinnati businessman Henry Probasco went to Munich, many years before, artist August von Kreling had collaborated with Ferdinand von Miller at the Royal Bronze Foundry of Bavaria to design a fountain. Probasco requested the addition of four figures with animals that would act as drinking fountains, Fountain Square has many events all through the week including speeches, games, movies, concerts, giveaways, and festivals. The square also has many events such as Halloween on the square. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day 2010, the square featured EcoSculpt 2010, the exhibit included Atlas Recycled by Tom Tsuchiya, a sculpture made of used atlases that doubled as a recycling receptacle for plastic bottles and aluminum cans. The Fountain Square District is becoming a restaurant and entertainment hub and it contains many offices, hotels, specialty shops and restaurants. Office Fifth Third Bank Headquarters Macys, Inc
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Fountain Square
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The
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Map of Fountain Square
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One of the works in the "EcoSculpt 2010" exhibition.
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Tyler Davidson Fountain
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The Tyler Davidson Fountain or The Genius of Water is a statue and fountain located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is regarded as the symbol and one of the areas most-visited attractions. It was dedicated in 1871 and is the centerpiece of Fountain Square and it is surrounded by stores, hotels, restaurants and offices. Originally, and for more than 130 years, it was located in the center of 5th Street, in 2006, renovations were undertaken to Fountain Square, and the Tyler Davidson Fountain was temporarily removed. When reinstalled it was relocated to a wider space near the north end of the reconfigured square, closer to the Fifth Third Bank Building. The fountain is turned off for the months and turned on again in time for the first home game of Major League Baseballs Cincinnati Reds. The 43-foot-tall fountain is cast in bronze and sits on a granite base. The inscription To the People of Cincinnati appears on its base, the artistic fountains motif is water, in homage the river citys continuing debt to the Ohio River. The central figure, the Genius of Water—a female in heroic size—pours down the symbolic longed-for rain from hundreds of jets pierced in her outstretched fingers, the figure is 9 feet high and weighs 2 tons. The pedestal itself is square with four representations in basso-relievo of four uses of water, namely, steam, water-power, navigation. From the center of the pedestal rises a shaft spread at the top with interlaced vines and foliage, upon these two groups the Genius of Water is dropping a gentle spray. At the west a young girl is offering the water to an old man with crutches, on the east side a mother partially nude is leading her naked and reluctant boy to the bath. Four outer figures with animals represent the pleasures of water and these are working drinking fountains from which passersby can drink. On the drinking fountains are figures of nude boys- one riding a dolphin, another playing with ducks, a third struggling with a snake, the construct is made of approximately 24 short tons of cannon bronze purchased from the Danish government and 85 short tons of granite. After the death of his brother-in-law and business partner Tyler Davidson, Cincinnati businessman Henry Probasco went to Munich, when Miller could find no patron to sponsor the fountain, the designs languished until Probasco came to him with an interest in a similar theme. Probasco requested the addition of four figures with animals that would act as drinking fountains, the original miniature model is now located in the Cincinnati Art Museum. The fountain was cast in sections at the foundry and shipped to Cincinnati for assembly. Probasco requested that the City of Cincinnati remove the market along 5th Street between Vine and Walnut Streets for the fountain
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Tyler Davidson Fountain
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A boy with a goose represents one of the pleasures of water.
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Tyler Davidson Fountain in 1906.
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The Genius of Water close-up at its former location.
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A town square is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings. Other names for town square are civic center, city square, urban square, market square, public square, piazza, plaza, most town squares are hardscapes suitable for open markets, music concerts, political rallies, and other events that require firm ground. Being centrally located, town squares are surrounded by small shops such as bakeries, meat markets, cheese stores. At their center is often a fountain, well, monument, many of those with fountains are actually called fountain square. In urban planning, a city square or urban square is an open area in a city. Red Square in Moscow was originally used as a marketplace and later became the stage for Soviet military parades. Similarly, Beijings Tiananmen Square was the scene of both communist parades and anti-government protests, john-F. -Kennedy-Platz was the site of the West Berlin town hall and John F. Kennedys famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech. New York Citys Times Square as well as Bryant Park, Washington, D. C. s National Mall, trafalgar Square in London does the same for the United Kingdom. Saint Peters Square in Vatican City, the enclave within Rome. Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto is a renowned and famous square in Canada, nathan Phillips Square is a popular square in front of Torontos landmark City Hall. Hviezdoslavovo námestie is one of the squares in Bratislava and a centre of a social life. Dam Square in Amsterdam for the Netherlands, Main Market Square in Kraków, Market Place in Warsaw and Wrocław Main Square for Poland. The City Hall Square, Copenhagen for Denmark, praça do Comércio, in Lisbon, Portugal, was formerly known as the Terreiro do Paço. It was destroyed after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake but was rebuilt, the symmetrical buildings around the square hold government bureaus and ministries. Wenceslas Square is one of the city squares in the New Town of Prague. In Mainland China, Peoples Square is a designation for the central town square of modern Chinese cities. These squares are the site of government buildings, museums and other public buildings, the probably best-known and largest such square in China is Tienanmen Square. The German word for square is Platz, which also means Place and these have been focal points of public life in towns and cities from the Middle Ages to today
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Piazza della Signoria, in
Florence,
Italy, a historic example of a traditional public square
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Yonge-Dundas Square, in
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Pariser Platz with
Brandenburger Tor, in
Berlin,
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President
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Mikulas Dzurinda are greeted by a crowd of thousands gathered in
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Lytle Park
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Lytle Park Historic District is a historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Roughly bounded by 3rd, 5th, Sycamore, Commercial Sq. and Butler Sts. in downtown Cincinnati, in 2014, Western & Southern Financial Group, owner of many properties within the Lytle Park Historic District asked the city to remove historic status of several historic buildings. The company hopes to demolish sections of the district in order to new office space. Lytle Park has a history and represents one of the oldest areas in the city. Originally a hardwood forest, the park and its vicinity was the site of Fort Washington. The site next served as the homestead of the prominent Lytle family, surveyor General of the Northwest Territory William Lytle II built his house there in 1809, about ten years prior to the completion of the neighboring Martin Baum mansion. The land then known as Lytle Square was purchased by the City of Cincinnati in 1905, the 11-foot bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln facing the entrance of the park was commissioned by the Charles P. Taft family. The unusually beardless statue is the public monument to an individual ever produced by sculptor George Grey Barnard. The statue was dedicated amid great fanfare on March 31,1917, the adjacent U. S. Marine Corps Memorial is a granite boulder with bronze plaque and Marine emblem atop a globe. When an expressway was planned to be downtown, Lytle Park faced its possible demise. When the Lytle Tunnel was completed in 1970, Lytle Park was the first park to be located above an interstate road, described as an urban oasis, Lytle Park is known for its large seasonal flower beds of tulips and chrysanthemums in entirely urban surroundings. In 1976, the buildings around the park were declared a district
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Lytle Park Historic District
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Statue of Lincoln with the park and the Taft Museum visible in the background
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Piatt Park
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Piatt Park, is the oldest park in Cincinnati, Ohio. The urban park stretches two blocks between Elm Street and Vine Street on Garfield Place/8th Street, the park is owned and maintained by the Cincinnati Park Board. The Garfield statue, by Charles Henry Niehaus, was commissioned in 1883, due to the presence of the statue of Garfield, the city park was known for a time as Garfield Park, officially receiving its designation as Piatt Park by the Board of Park Commissioners in 1940. The James A. Garfield statue was originally at the center of the crossing of Garfield Place and Race Street. In 1915 it was moved into the close to the same intersection. It was again moved during the renovation of Piatt Park in 1988, in1994 the statue was vandalized with a painted anarchy symbol which seeped into the stone pedestal and is still somewhat visible. The bronze statue of a uniformed General Harrison on horseback by Louis T. Rebisso of the Cincinnati School of Design, the North side of the pedestal states Ohios First President and the South side has his name William Henry Harrison. The statue is odd in that there is no saddle on the horse so the stirrups seem airborne, one of the horses legs is raised indicating that the rider was wounded in battle. It is notable for being the equestrian monument in Cincinnati. The monument originally faced East toward Vine Street but was moved in 1988 to its present location, flanking Race Street in Piatt Park are two circular reflecting pools with granite slabs that mirror the surrounding urban landscape. Beneath a curtain of water flows over the granite surfaces are carved symbols for water, air. Cincinnati artist Stuart Fink’s fountain was dedicated in 1989 in memory of local delicatessen owner Isadore “Izzy” Kadetz, in October 2011, the park was utilized by the protest group Occupy Cincinnati, a local version of the national Occupy Wall Street movement
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The Garfield Monument in winter.
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Aronoff Center
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The Aronoff Center is a large performing arts center in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Events that can typically be found at the Aronoff Center include, plays, ballet, popular music concerts, stand-up comedy shows, the center was designed by renowned architect César Pelli and named in honor of Cincinnati native and Ohio senator Stanley Aronoff. Procter & Gamble Hall seats 2,719 The Jarson-Kaplan Theater seats 437 The Fifth Third Bank Theater, is a theater which seats up to 150. Additional Areas Rehearsal Hall, a flexible area, the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, a 3, 500-square-foot art gallery. Green Room for receptions and dinners or screenings Center Stage Room, usable for receptions, founders Room, for small meetings and parties. List of concert halls Aronoff Center Homepage Wicked is performing at Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, OH Aronoff Center
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Front facade.
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List of tallest buildings in Cincinnati
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This is a list of tallest buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S. A. This lists ranks 28 Cincinnati area skyscrapers that stand at least 250 feet tall and this includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. Some of the buildings are not in Cincinnati but rather a neighboring community. An equal sign following a rank indicates the height between two or more buildings. com
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Aerial view of downtown Cincinnati
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Carew Tower
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Carew Tower is a 49-story, 574-foot building completed in 1930 in the heart of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, overlooking the Ohio River waterfront. It is the second-tallest building in the city and was added to the register of National Historic Landmarks on April 19,1994. It is named for Joseph T. Carew, proprietor of the Mabley & Carew department store chain, the hotels Hall of Mirrors banquet room was inspired by the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza is a member of Historic Hotels of America, Carew Tower was designed by the architectural firm W. W. Ahlschlager & Associates with Delano & Aldrich and developed by John J. Emery, the original concept was a development that would include a department store, a theater, office accommodation and a hotel to rival the Waldorf-Astoria. Emery took on as partner Col. William A. Starrett and Starrett Brothers, the building is widely considered to be an early prototype of an urban mixed-use development, a city within a city. New York Citys Rockefeller Center, built around the time, is a more famous example of this concept. The Hotel Emery and an office belonging to Mabley & Carew were demolished to make the site available for construction. Construction began in September 1929, just one month before the market crash on October 24 that triggered the Great Depression. Because of this, construction was continued on a modified plan, art deco themes can be found throughout the building, particularly in the metalwork and grillwork of the elevators and lights. Locally sourced inlaid Rookwood Pottery floral tiles adorn the east and west entrances of the building, sculpture on the exterior and interior of the building were executed by New York City architectural sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan. Eighteen Louis Grell murals can be throughout the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel on the bottom floor. The ten murals in the Palm Court represent the recreation and it is believed that the artist representations of Carew Tower can be worked into each background by Grell. The staircase mural says Welcome Travelers and the four in the Continental Room represent the four seasons of the year, the massive 90 foot long Apollo Gallery boost another Apollo on Chariot mural and a large Hunt of Diana mural by Grell. All murals are believed to be oil on canvas, the total cost of the building was US$33 million, which at that time was an enormous sum of money. It took crews only 13 months to complete the construction, working 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, from 1930 until 1960, Carew Tower was the home of the Mabley & Carew department store. Procter & Gamble, the producers, are based in Cincinnati. It was also featured in the opening and closing credits on the TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, the building is home to a mixed group of tenants, including a shopping arcade, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, and offices
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Cincinnati Skywalk
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The Cincinnati Skywalk is a series of walkways, primarily indoors and elevated, which allows pedestrians to traverse downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in segments starting in 1971, the 1. 3-mile skywalk was completed in 1997 at a total cost of more than $16 million. Since then, some city leaders have begun to see the skywalk as a barrier to development, as it may decrease street-level. Some segments of the skywalk have been removed and future demolitions are expected, in 1957, Cincinnati Director of Planning Herbert W. Stevens introduced the idea of elevated skywalks as a way to keep pedestrians safe from cars driving through downtown. When the federal government agreed to provide urban renewal funds to pay for the project. The first link opened in 1971, connecting the Cincinnati Convention Center to Fountain Square, more segments were added through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. It was officially finished in 1997 at a total cost of more than $16 million, cincinnatis 2002 Center City Plan emphasized downtown economic development, and stated the Skywalk allowed pedestrians to bypass the street and led people to believe downtown was abandoned. The report stated that increasing street-level pedestrian traffic would increase economic activity downtown, safety and maintenance were also becoming a growing concern. In 2005, then-mayor Charlie Luken told the New York Times the Skywalk is ugly, in 2002, five years after it was considered complete, pieces of the skywalk started to come down. Crews tore out a segment connecting Riverfront Stadium to the Atrium I, in 2005, as part of the redevelopment of Fountain Square, the city ripped out a segment from the Fifth Third Center to Vine Street and a pedestrian bridge over 5th Street. In June 2008, a bridge segment over 5th Street between Elm and Race Streets was demolished, when the segment was first built, it connected Saks Fifth Avenue to an office tower on the north side of 5th Street. When the office tower was torn down, the bridge was no longer needed and removed. In 2012, the city removed a segment of the skywalk over Elm St. In January 2013, the segment over Race Street between 5th and 6th Streets was removed. This bridge once connected Macys to a building on the west side of Race Street. The office building was demolished but the bridge remained intact for several years, the construction of the new dunnhumby USA office building did not include the use of the skywalk bridge and the bridge was demolished. A research team at UrbanCincy. com has created this current map of the Cincinnati Skywalk using Google Maps, the map shows that as of March 2015, the skywalk exists in two isolated segments, separated by Fountain Square
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This section of Skywalk crosses 5th Street near
Vine Street, connecting
Carew Tower with
Macy's.
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A Skywalk bridge over Vine Street between 4th and 5th Streets connects the Westin hotel complex to the Carew Tower complex.
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A section of the Cincinnati Skywalk inside the Mercantile Building near E. 4th St. and Main St.
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A segment of Skywalk next to Saks Fifth Avenue. The skywalk bridge in the background crosses Race Street near 5th Street.
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Contemporary Arts Center
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The Contemporary Arts Center is a pioneering contemporary art museum located in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States. The CAC is a museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art. Remaining committed to programming that reflects the art of the last five minutes, in 2003, the CAC moved to a new building designed by the late Zaha Hadid. The Contemporary Arts Center was founded as the Modern Art Society in 1939 by Betty Pollak Rauh, Peggy Frank Crawford and these three women were able to raise enough money through donations to display modern art at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Early advice and encouragement was offered by both Edward M. M, warburg, a friend of the Pollak family, as well as Alfred H. Barr. The societys very first exhibit, Modern Painting from Cincinnati Collections, in 1954 the Modern Art Society adopted its current name, the Contemporary Arts Center. The name change coincided with the creation of two permanent galleries that were remodeled from part of the lower level. These two spaces, designed by Carl Strauss and Ray Roush, consisted of about 900 square feet each, many local Cincinnati collections were shown in this space, including works now kept at the Cincinnati Art Museum from the Mary E. Johnston collection. Construction on the Emery Wing at the Cincinnati Art Museum replaced the original space of the CAC. As a result of the museum’s need to expand, the center moved out in 1962 and temporarily inhabited various locations at the Taft Museum of Art, space at 608 Main Street, and the Carew Tower. In 1964 the center occupied the floor of the Women’s Exchange building at 113 West Fourth street where it remained for six years. After just two years on Fourth street the center announced that it had plans to move to the Mercantile Center on Fifth street, the new building cost $400,000 and was designed by Harry Weese. The CAC’s space covered about 12,000 square feet and overlooked the new bus terminal in downtown Cincinnati, despite early financial troubles in 1971, the CAC was able to put on over 400 exhibitions during its 30-year stay on Government Square. A permanent lease for the location was acquired in 1982 through a city bond, early proposals for a new home began at the end of the 1980s and included possible locations at the Ohio Mechanics Institute and the Aronoff Center. Later, as the idea of constructing a new building became possible. By 1997 the center’s Architectural Selection Committee was publicly seeking architects to design the CACs first-free standing building, one year later the board granted the commission to Zaha Hadid. Construction began in 2001 and the new building opened on May 31,2003, CAC and Formica Corporation presented the architects with a challenge, to design an object that people could sit upon, lie upon, lean upon, play upon. The architects present a range of approaches to the challenge
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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
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The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the Center also pays tribute to all efforts to abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people. It is one of a new group of museums of conscience in the United States, along with the Museum of Tolerance, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Civil Rights Museum. The Center offers insight into the struggle for freedom in the past, in the present, many found refuge in the city, some staying there temporarily before heading north to gain freedom in Canada. After ten years of planning, fundraising, and construction, the $110 million Freedom Center opened to the public on August 3,2004, the 158,000 square foot structure was designed by Boora Architects of Portland, Oregon with Blackburn Architects of Indianapolis. Three pavilions celebrate courage, cooperation and perseverance, the exterior features rough travertine stone from Tivoli, Italy on the east and west faces of the building, and copper panels on the north and south. According to Walter Blackburn, one of its primary architects before his death, the buildings undulating quality expresses the fields, first Lady Laura Bush, Oprah Winfrey, and Muhammad Ali attended the groundbreaking ceremony on June 17,2002. The centers principal artifact is a 21 by 30 foot, two-story log slave pen built in 1830, by 2003, it was the only known surviving rural slave jail, previously used to house slaves prior to their being shipped to auction. The structure was moved from a farm in Mason County, Kentucky and it was reconstructed in the second-floor atrium of the museum, where visitors encounter it again and again while exploring other exhibits. Passersby on the street outside can see it through the Centers large windows. The pen was originally owned by Captain John Anderson, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, the pen has eight small windows, the original stone floor and fireplace. On the second floor are a row of iron rings through which a central chain ran. Male slaves were held on the floor, while women were kept on the first floor. The pen is powerful, says Carl B, westmoreland, curator and senior adviser to the museum. It has the feeling of hallowed ground, when people stand inside, they speak in whispers. I believe it is here to tell a story - the story of the slave trade to future generations. Visitors to the museum can walk through the pen and touch its walls. The first names of some of the believed to have been held in the pen are listed on a wooden slab in the pens interior
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Main entrance to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
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The Slave Pen, the principal artifact at the Freedom Center, was transported from its original Kentucky location and reconstructed on the second floor of the Center
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This shackle ring in the second-floor joist was used to secure male slaves in the pen
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Taft Museum of Art
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The Taft Museum of Art is a historic house museum holding a fine art collection in Cincinnati. It is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Cincinnati, the Taft house was first built for Martin Baum and then was the residence of Nicholas Longworth. David Sinton lived in the house with his daughter Anna, who married Charles Phelps Taft, the Tafts lived in the house from 1873 until 1929. William H. Taft accepted his presidential nomination there from its portico in 1908, the Tafts were avid art collectors. They turned their home into a museum, and donated their Greek Revival house, the Taft Museum opened to the public on November 29,1932. The galleries in the house also include Chinese porcelains, European decorative arts, Limoges enamels, watches, sculptures. Collection highlights include, Joaquin Sorolla, Portrait of Mr. Taft, frank Duveneck, The Cobblers Apprentice,1877. Henry Farny, Song of the Talking Wire,1904, rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair,1633. J. M. W. Turner, Europa and the Bull, james Abbott McNeill Whistler, At the Piano, 1858–59. Anonymous author of the 13th century, Virgin and Child, from Paris, Abbey of Saint-Denis, olivuccio di Ciccarello, Madonna nursing the Child with Saints. Frans Hals, Portrait of Seated Man Holding Hat, jeronymus Van Diest, Sailboats On River with Fisherman. An appreciable collection of Limoges enamel paintings, the museum reopened in May 2004 after an extensive renovation. The expansion includes a shop, the Carl H. Lindner Family Café. William Howard Taft National Historic Site Taft Museum of Art online Postcard Taft Home
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Baum-Taft House
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Portrait of Mr. Taft, by
Joaquin Sorolla (1909)
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The Banks
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The Banks is the name given to the current mixed-use project being developed on the land between Paul Brown Stadium and Great American Ball Park along the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio. The construction for a new riverfront area between the two stadiums is the result of a public planning process begun in October 1996. A Riverfront Steering Committee made up of City and County elected officials, focus groups, interviews, and public meetings were held throughout the planning process. A Concept Plan was published in April 1997 which identified three possible scenarios for the siting of the stadiums and the development of the riverfront, the preparation of a final Master Plan was delayed due to a November 1998 public referendum on the siting of the Reds Stadium. The final Master Plan includes The Banks recommendations from the advisors, Carter and The Dawson Co. were selected by the city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County as master developers for the 18-acre mixed-use project. Bob Castellini, CEO of the Cincinnati Reds, was a chair of Joint Banks Steering Committee, on November 1,2007, Cincinnati City Council and Hamilton County approved of the project. Groundbreaking took place on April 2,2008, the first phase, which opened in the summer of 2011, included Current at The Banks, a building containing 300 apartment units atop 96,000 square feet of street-level retail space. Currently, the apartments are fully leased and the space is approximately 92 percent occupied. Many of the retail tenants include bars, restaurants and musical venues such as Yard House, Tin Roof, Mahogany’s, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, the second phase of The Banks is slated to break ground in the summer of 2013. It will be located near Paul Brown Stadium, home of the Cincinnati Bengals, plans also call for the development of 180 Walnut @ The Banks, a 233, 496-square-foot, Class A office building. Upon completion, The Banks will be the region’s largest mixed-use development, the city of Cincinnati, the county and a joint venture between Carter and The Dawson Company formed The Banks Public Private Partnership to secure funding and develop the project. Through a successful partnership, The Banks is one of the nation’s preeminent urban Live, Work. The park will connect Bicentennial Commons and Sawyer Point to form an almost 3-mile corridor of public park along the river. The area to be occupied by the Banks and the Riverfront Park is the site of this storied facility. This is only a portion of the other 45 acres of park space. Congress has appropriated $3 million for design and planning, the federal government will contribute up to $50 million in additional funding. $3.5 million has been given by Cincinnati and Ohio for planning, Cincinnati has applied for $8 million federal funds and $2 million in state funds for the first phases of park construction. The initial $1 million has been provided by private funds, total cost for the park will be $66 million
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Courtesy of Mark Bowen
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Concept image of the Cincinnati Riverfront Park
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Paul Brown Stadium
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Mixed-use development
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Mixed-use development can take the form of a single building, a city block, or entire neighbourhoods. Traditionally, human settlements have developed in mixed-use patterns, in the United States, the heyday of separate-use zoning was after World War II, but since the 1990s, mixed-use zoning has once again become desirable as the benefits are recognized. Walking was the way that people and goods were moved about. Most people dwelt in buildings that were places of work as well as domestic life, people lived at very high densities because the amount of space required for daily living and movement between different activities was determined by walkability and the scale of the human body. This was particularly true in cities, and the floor of buildings was often devoted to some sort of commercial or productive use. This historical mixed-used pattern of development declined during industrialisation in favor of separation of manufacturing. This period saw massive migrations of people from areas to cities drawn by work in factories. These influxes of new workers needed to be accommodated and many new urban districts arose at this time with domestic housing being their primary function, thus began a separating out of land uses that previously had occurred in the same spaces. Furthermore, many factories produced substantial pollution of various kinds, distance was required to minimize adverse impacts from noise, dirt, noxious fumes and dangerous substances. Even so, at time, most industrialized cities were of a size that allowed people to walk between the different areas of the city. These factors were important in the push for Euclidean or single-use zoning premised on the compartmentalization of land uses into like functions, in the United States, another impetus for Euclidean zoning was the birth of the skyscraper. Fear of buildings blocking out the sun led many to call for zoning regulations, Zoning regulations, first put into place in the 1916 Zoning Resolution, not only called for limits on building heights, but eventually called for separations of uses. This was largely meant to people from living next to polluted industrial areas. This separation, however, was extended to commercial uses as well and this type of zoning was widely adopted by municipal zoning codes. However, it has been the post-second World War dominance of the automobile, throughout the late 20th century, it began to become apparent to many urban planners and other professionals that mixed-use development had many benefits and should be promoted again. As American, British, Canadian and Australian cities deindustrialized, the need to separate residences from hazardous factories became less important, completely separate zoning created isolated islands of each type of development. In 1961, Jane Jacobs influential The Death and Life of Great American Cities argued that a mixture of uses is vital, Zoning laws have been revised accordingly and increasingly attempt to address these problems by using mixed-use zoning. Mixed-use guidelines often result in buildings with streetfront commercial space
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Traditional mixed-use development: residential and retail, pedestrian-friendly street in
Bitola,
Macedonia
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Marina City in
Chicago, a mixed-use skyscraper
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Paul Brown Stadium
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Paul Brown Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in the north central United States, located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the venue of the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. Named after the Bengals founder Paul Brown, the stadium is located on approximately 22 acres of land and has a seating capacity of 65,515. Paul Brown Stadium is nicknamed The Jungle, a not only to the namesake Bengal tigers natural habitat. In 1996, Hamilton County voters passed a one-half percent sales tax increase to fund the building of two new venues for both the Bengals and the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds. Following the 2002 baseball season, Cinergy was demolished on December 29, the Bengals have hosted four NFL playoff games at Paul Brown Stadium, with no victories. For its first four years, the field was natural Kentucky Bluegrass, Hamilton County explored other options and chose the synthetic FieldTurf system. The infilled artificial turf looks and feels like real grass, and since the field markings are actually sewn into the fabric, the reduced maintenance saves the county approximately $100,000 annually. Additionally, it opens Paul Brown Stadium to other uses without worry of damage to the turf, the FieldTurf was installed for the 2004 season. The field is one of two stadiums in the NFL to have five miles of piping running under the field to keep the rubber inlays heated. Two LED video displays at either end zone, installed in 2000, over 200 feet of ribbon display was also installed along the fascia of the stadium. On September 5,2009, the Kentucky Wildcats and the Miami Redhawks played their games there. The University of Cincinnati also played Oklahoma in 2010 at Paul Brown Stadium, the Sooners won the game 31-29 with 58,253 fans in attendance. In 2011, the Bearcats played Big East Conference opponents Louisville Cardinals, the Bearcats returned to Paul Brown Stadium for the 2014 football season due to the renovations of Nippert Stadium with the largest attendance being Miami at 41,926. The average attendance was set at 28,840 for the year, additionally, the Macys Music Festival is held there every year. Unusual for a venue the size of Paul Brown Stadium, in the spring and this marked the first time a major concert had taken place at PBS. Chesney and McGraw were also joined by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Paul Brown Stadium also houses the Bengals administrative offices and training and practice facilities. The game field in Paul Brown Stadium is UBU Sports Speed S5-M synthetic turf system, there are three smaller practice fields nearby
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Great American Ball Park
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Great American Ball Park is a baseball stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is the home field of Major League Baseballs Cincinnati Reds. It opened in 2003, replacing Cinergy Field, their field from 1970 to 2002. The parks name comes from the Great American Insurance Group, the ballpark hosted the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The Reds put in $5 million for improvements, which included two new bars and upgraded concession stands, in 1996, Hamilton County voters passed a ½% sales tax increase to fund the construction of new venues for both the Reds and the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. Nearby Paul Brown Stadium broke ground in 1998 and was opened on August 19,2000, Great American Ball Park was built by the architectural firms Populous and GBBN at a cost of approximately US$290 million. It is located on the plot of land between the site of Cinergy Field and US Bank Arena, it was known locally as the wedge. The limited construction space necessitated the demolition of Cinergy Field. It was fully demolished on December 29,2002, the original address of Great American Ball Park was 100 Main Street. However, after the death of pitcher and longtime broadcaster Joe Nuxhall in 2007. A sign bearing Nuxhalls traditional signoff phrase rounding third and heading for home is located on the base side exterior of the park. The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum is adjacent to Great American Ball Park, a 35-foot--wide break in the stands between home plate and third base called The Gap is bridged by the concourse on each level. Aligned with Sycamore Street, it provides views into the stadium from downtown, when the Reds strike out a batter, fire blows out of the stacks beginning with the 2012 season. Fireworks are launched from the stacks after every Reds home run, the seven baseball bats featured on both smokestacks symbolize the #14 of Pete Rose. Each smokestack has seven baseball bats at the top to symbolize Pete Roses No.14 jersey, local designers and artist created the piece between 2001 and 2003 with concept, design and project oversight / management by Berberich Design. The illustrative artist was Mark Riedy, the sculptors of the model used for fabrication were Todd Myers. Just inside the main gates off the Crosley Terrace you will find two mosaic panels measuring 16 feet wide by 10 feet high, the mosaics were created between 2001 and 2003 with concept, design and project oversight / management by Berberich Design. The illustrative artist was Mark Riedy and these mosaic panels are made of opaque glass tiles and were produced in Ravenna, Italy by SICIS. Panoramas of downtown Cincinnati, Mt. Adams, the Ohio River, at 217 feet,9 inches wide, the scoreboard from Daktronics is the sixth largest in Major League Baseball, and the 15th largest in the United States out of all LED screens
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A view of Great American Ball Park, including The Gap.
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The centerfield "smokestacks"
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The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bengals currently compete in the National Football League as a club of the leagues American Football Conference North division. Their home stadium is Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati and their current head coach is Marvin Lewis, who has held the position since 2003 and is currently the second-longest tenured head coach in the NFL, behind the New England Patriots Bill Belichick. Their chief rivals are the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, the Bengals were founded in 1966 as a member of the American Football League by former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown. Brown was the Bengals head coach from their inception to 1975, after being dismissed as the Browns head coach by Art Modell in January 1963, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus. Due to the merger of the AFL and the NFL. The Bengals, like the other former AFL teams, were assigned to the AFC following the merger, Cincinnati was also selected because, like their neighbors the Reds, they could draw from several large neighboring cities that are all no more than 110 miles away from downtown Cincinnati. The Bengals won the AFC championship in 1981 and 1988, but lost Super Bowls XVI, after Paul Browns death in 1991, controlling interest in the team was inherited by his son, Mike Brown. In 2011, Brown purchased shares of the owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise. The 1990s and the 2000s were a period of great struggle, following the 1990 season, the team went fourteen years without posting a winning record nor making the playoffs. The Bengals had several head coaches and several of their top draft picks did not pan out, Mike Brown, the teams de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports. Since the mid-2000s, the teams fortunes have improved, two years after becoming head coach, Lewis guided the Bengals to their first winning season and first division title in over a decade. After the acquisition of Andy Dalton as quarterback in 2011, the Bengals had made the playoffs each season until 2016, the Bengals drafts are also highly touted, leading to a consistency that had long escaped the franchise. However, the team has remained unable to win in the postseason and have not won a game since 1990. The Bengals are one of the 13 NFL teams to not have won a Super Bowl as of the 2016 season, the franchise takes its name from an earlier Cincinnati Bengals team, which played from 1937–1941. It also was a nod to Paul Browns Massillon, Ohio, in 1967, an ownership group led by Paul Brown was granted a franchise in the American Football League. Brown named the team the Bengals in order to give it a link with past professional football in Cincinnati, another Bengals team had existed in the city and played in three previous American Football Leagues from 1937 to 1942. The citys world-renowned zoo was home to a rare white Bengal tiger
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Paul Brown Stadium, home of the Bengals.
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Quarterback Carson Palmer,
wide receiver #84
T.J. Houshmandzadeh, and the rest of the Bengals line up to play the
Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006.
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Andy Dalton takes a snap before a game against the Baltimore Ravens on January 1, 2012.
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Cincinnati Reds
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The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Reds compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the National League Central division. They were a member of the American Association in 1882. The Reds played in the NL West division from 1969 to 1993 and they have won five World Series titles, nine NL pennants, one AA pennant, and 10 division titles. The team plays its games at Great American Ball Park. Bob Castellini has been executive officer since 2006. The origins of the modern Cincinnati Reds can be traced to the expulsion of a team bearing that name. Both were important activities to entice the citys large German population, while Hulbert made clear his distaste for both beer and Sunday baseball at the founding of the league, neither practice was actually against league rules in those early years. On October 6,1880, however, seven of the eight team owners pledged at a league meeting to formally ban both beer and Sunday baseball at the regular league meeting that December. Only Cincinnati president W. H. Kennett refused to sign the pledge, when these attempts failed, he formed a new independent ballclub known as the Red Stockings in the Spring of 1881, and brought the team to St. Louis for a weekend exhibition. The Reds first game was a 12–3 victory over the St. Louis club, upon arriving in the city, however, Caylor and Thorner discovered that no other owners had decided to accept the invitation, with even Phillips not bothering to attend his own meeting. By chance, the duo met a former pitcher named Al Pratt, the ploy worked, and the American Association was officially formed at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati with the new Reds a charter member with Thorner as president. The club never placed higher than second or lower than fifth for the rest of its tenure in the American Association, the National League was happy to accept the teams in part due to the emergence of the new Players League. This new league, a failed attempt to break the reserve clause in baseball. Because the National League decided to expand while the American Association was weakening and it was also at this time that the team first shortened their name from Red Stockings to Reds. The Reds wandered through the 1890s signing local stars and aging veterans, during this time, the team never finished above third place and never closer than 10½ games. At the start of the 20th century, the Reds had hitting stars Sam Crawford, seymours.377 average in 1905 was the first individual batting crown won by a Red. In 1911, Bob Bescher stole 81 bases, which is still a team record, like the previous decade, the 1900s were not kind to the Reds, as much of the decade was spent in the leagues second division
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Cincinnati Reds baseball team in 1909
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Team logo
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Hall of famer
Edd Roush led Cincinnati to the 1919 World Series.
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The Reds played at
Crosley Field, pictured here in 1969, from 1912–1970
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Public Landing, Cincinnati
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The Cincinnati Public Landing is the landing on the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The Cincinnati Public Landing by 1825 had shipbuilding facilities and it was described in 1841 as a space of nearly 10 acres, with a front of almost 1,000 feet. In the age of steamboat transport, the landing was frequently jammed with riverboat traffic with 5,000 arrivals. The historic showboat Majestic is moored at the Public Landing, as of late 2013, performances have been suspended and the showboats future remains uncertain
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Riverboats dock at the Public Landing during the 2006
Tall Stacks festival
City of Cincinnati
