diggingcincihistory

Reviving this really old thread to share my recent blog post about Mount Storm Park. The blog contains newspaper photos of the house from 1917. http://diggingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2013/02/mount-storm-estate-and-park.html

Is that pic above with the orange barrels a latrine pit? That could be some cool investigating!

I agree they do good work. It's just the italics in the poster seems to come off as an "us vs them" perspective. Edited to add: I need to learn more about OTRCH and the People's Platform to understand their perspective on the development of OTR. Also, what is considered "affordable housing" vs "market rate"? As much as I would love to move to OTR, my family needs a 3 bed/2 bath home but we can't afford over $200,000. I guess we fall somewhere in between.

Wow, sorry that is so big. I'm new to posting here. :-) Edited to change my tone: "effecting the lives of us who live here." Who is us and our own opinions? I love the changes that have come to OTR (except when my son and I got panhandled on 14th Street, walking to the City Flea).

Saw this on Over-the-Rhine Community Housing facebook page for today's Final Friday:

Property Acquisitions address is 1526 Elm which is a nicely rehabbed house.

The tower of this building was built in 1909 by Jefferson Livingston, sole owner of the TA Snider Preserve Company. It was originally planned to have 16 stories but only 8 were built. In 1921, it was sold to Pearl Market Bank and they added the shorter portion to the west. Pearl Market Bank was taken over by Central Trust in 1930. The building was owned by Central Trust until 1996.