April 6, 20169 yr In that last image i was confused as to what the white sided building to the right of the Millennium Hotel was then i noticed a similar clad building on the roof of the old Enquirer building. Doh, just an optical illusion and they are hvac buildings on the roof of the old Enguirer bldg, not behind the Millennium at all.
April 25, 20169 yr Yep, definitely need a 500+ footer on the 4th and Plum lot to balance that skyline out and center it on the Roebling.
April 26, 20169 yr Yep, definitely need a 500+ footer on the 4th and Plum lot to balance that skyline out and center it on the Roebling. If the convention center with a new hotel tower expands to fill out that block we could get something, but I don't think it would be 500'. One can hope.
May 10, 20169 yr Author The old Drop Inn Center before it was demolished to make way for the new Cincinnati Shakespeare Company theatre.
May 24, 20169 yr Love the view of downtown from the reading exit. You can really see the depth of the city that isn't visible in straight on pictures taken from Kentucky.
May 29, 20169 yr Niiiiiiiiiiiiice. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 13, 20169 yr Author If you want to get some pics from the top of Pogue's Garage (4th & Race), you better do it now -- demolition will start this summer!
June 13, 20168 yr taestell[/member] - that photo looking up Race St is incredible, really shrinking the distance between the CBD, OTR, and Bellevue Park. So cool!
June 13, 20168 yr taestell[/member] - that photo looking up Race St is incredible, really shrinking the distance between the CBD, OTR, and Bellevue Park. So cool! Yes. It's rather breathtaking. Too bad you can't get just a bit further to the right and see directly up the canyon.
July 7, 20168 yr Hmmm... From the bridge's cobalt near upper section, along its turquoise support beams down to GE's aqua U.S. Global Operation Center on the far left - what's there not to like about all the shades of blue?
July 9, 20168 yr Looking down Main Street in Over-the-Rhine: I get so jealous over Cincinnati's architecture and even the density sometimes. Such an east coast feel I love it. Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk
August 29, 20168 yr Author Southbank Shuttle rolling up Vine Street with the newly completed GE Global Operations Center in the background.
August 29, 20168 yr Who needs streetcars when you can hop on the trolley and hitch a ride to Dick's Last Resort! “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
October 8, 20168 yr Check out the detail in this KodaChrome from the 1940's. I stumbled on it randomly and had never seen it before. LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS!!!! I posted it on the Save the Dennison Hotel site as it is the first shot Ive seen from above in color & with all the neighboring buildings intact.
October 9, 20168 yr Check out the detail in this KodaChrome from the 1940's. I stumbled on it randomly and had never seen it before. LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS!!!! I posted it on the Save the Dennison Hotel site as it is the first shot Ive seen from above in color & with all the neighboring buildings intact. Great shot! I love photos from this era, right before the crazy amount of destruction began in the next decade.
October 10, 20168 yr Check out the detail in this KodaChrome from the 1940's. I stumbled on it randomly and had never seen it before. LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS!!!! I posted it on the Save the Dennison Hotel site as it is the first shot Ive seen from above in color & with all the neighboring buildings intact. My guess is that that photo was taken from the Carew Tower. Based on the angle, I think it probably was not from the Observation Deck, but from a lower level. Would love to see somebody try to re-create this shot.
October 10, 20168 yr Good Lord that is amazing! Every time I get depressed from seeing the past destruction of Cleveland's historic fabric, I realize that Cincy had it way worse. This is not meant to be a competitive dig at the city at all. Take it as a compliment. The built environment of Cincy was/still is one of the best outside of New York in the entire country. The downtown/OTR area always gives me a Tribeca/West village feel every time I am there. It's just a shame that the West end and Pendleton lost so much :-(
October 10, 20168 yr Check out the detail in this KodaChrome from the 1940's. I stumbled on it randomly and had never seen it before. LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS!!!! I posted it on the Save the Dennison Hotel site as it is the first shot Ive seen from above in color & with all the neighboring buildings intact. My guess is that that photo was taken from the Carew Tower. Based on the angle, I think it probably was not from the Observation Deck, but from a lower level. Would love to see somebody try to re-create this shot. Yep, you are correct, looks like either from the top of the Omni Netherland or from leaning out one of the windows near the top. I angled it out on google maps like I was a CSI person to verify. The new close by tall buildings block out a good chunk now, but still would be cool to see.
October 10, 20168 yr It's always great to see photos like that one because they show how the density of downtown and OTR used to simply continue up the hillsides to neighborhoods like Mt. Adams, CUF, and Mt. Auburn. A lot of demolition occurred on the hillsides around OTR due to foundation issues. Today it's prohibitively expensive to build much on those hills for the same reasons - so instead of a continuous unbroken density we have all sorts of wooded gaps between dense neighborhoods. I wonder if, in the distant future, demand for property in OTR gets so great that hillside development will become viable again. Though hopefully not too soon since my house is atop one of those hills and has a great view I wouldn't want to lose...
October 11, 20168 yr Check out the detail in this KodaChrome from the 1940's. I stumbled on it randomly and had never seen it before. LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS!!!! I posted it on the Save the Dennison Hotel site as it is the first shot Ive seen from above in color & with all the neighboring buildings intact. That's freakin nuts!
October 11, 20168 yr It's always great to see photos like that one because they show how the density of downtown and OTR used to simply continue up the hillsides to neighborhoods like Mt. Adams, CUF, and Mt. Auburn. A lot of demolition occurred on the hillsides around OTR due to foundation issues. Today it's prohibitively expensive to build much on those hills for the same reasons - so instead of a continuous unbroken density we have all sorts of wooded gaps between dense neighborhoods. I wonder if, in the distant future, demand for property in OTR gets so great that hillside development will become viable again. Though hopefully not too soon since my house is atop one of those hills and has a great view I wouldn't want to lose... There weren't as many mature trees on the hills in the early-mid 1900s as there are now since they were all logged in the 1800s. I'm sure that at least some of the homes that remain are much more secure now than they were previously.
October 11, 20168 yr Isn't there considerable land slide risk on most of the steep hillsides in Cincinnati? I doubt we could ever see similar hillside development as to what is shown in the photo, or what exists in contemporary San Francisco simply due to the relatively loose ground of our hillsides.
October 11, 20168 yr Isn't there considerable land slide risk on most of the steep hillsides in Cincinnati? I doubt we could ever see similar hillside development as to what is shown in the photo, or what exists in contemporary San Francisco simply due to the relatively loose ground of our hillsides. There are a few hillside homes going up right now but securing the hillside can cost more than $100,000. So it's only going to happen for higher-priced homes, not for working class housing, as was the case in the 1800s.
October 11, 20168 yr Isn't there considerable land slide risk on most of the steep hillsides in Cincinnati? I doubt we could ever see similar hillside development as to what is shown in the photo, or what exists in contemporary San Francisco simply due to the relatively loose ground of our hillsides. There are a few hillside homes going up right now but securing the hillside can cost more than $100,000. So it's only going to happen for higher-priced homes, not for working class housing, as was the case in the 1800s. Then if you piss off Riggs he's just going to come along in his dually and pull your house down with a chain.
October 11, 20168 yr ^^ ^Yeah there are ways to mitigate the landslide risk, but they are all pretty cost prohibitive given current real estate costs. If we ever get to a point where most of the vacant parcels in OTR are developed, development has spread into the west end, and people are still wanting new construction in lieu of previously occupied buildings, the hillsides could become viable for development - it's just a matter of the price being right, IMO. If houses here sold for what they do in San Francisco, people wouldn't hesitate at all to drop triple figures on foundations and retaining walls. On a related note, this is a great website if you've got a little spare time and want to read about Cincinnati landslides - I took a class at UC on Cincinnati regional geology (ended up being one of my favorite classes, actually) from one of the guys that runs this: http://www.ohiovalleylandslides.com/?page_id=6
October 11, 20168 yr ^^ ^Yeah there are ways to mitigate the landslide risk, but they are all pretty cost prohibitive given current real estate costs. If we ever get to a point where most of the vacant parcels in OTR are developed, development has spread into the west end, and people are still wanting new construction in lieu of previously occupied buildings, the hillsides could become viable for development - it's just a matter of the price being right, IMO. If houses here sold for what they do in San Francisco, people wouldn't hesitate at all to drop triple figures on foundations and retaining walls. On a related note, this is a great website if you've got a little spare time and want to read about Cincinnati landslides - I took a class at UC on Cincinnati regional geology (ended up being one of my favorite classes, actually) from one of the guys that runs this: http://www.ohiovalleylandslides.com/?page_id=6 There are a few hillside homes going up right now. One on Liberty Hill, one on Milton, one or two on Boal, and one or two on Pueblo. Look at how 2-3 lots have been for sale on Zier Pl for the past 3-4 years...obviously each would require serious hillside mitigation or else they would have sold right away.
October 12, 20168 yr Good Lord that is amazing! Every time I get depressed from seeing the past destruction of Cleveland's historic fabric, I realize that Cincy had it way worse. This is not meant to be a competitive dig at the city at all. Take it as a compliment. The built environment of Cincy was/still is one of the best outside of New York in the entire country. The downtown/OTR area always gives me a Tribeca/West village feel every time I am there. It's just a shame that the West end and Pendleton lost so much :-( I think your referring more to the west end. OTR and Pendleton are sort of lumped into one since they border each other. Pendleton for the most part is intact, barring a few side streets. OTR is the same. Clearly their are vacant lots aplenty, but you still have the bones and character of OTR in place. You never feel like that the demolition of the past had gotten to the point where the neighborhood has lost its identity. There is still the remaining part of the old West end, and nearby Mohawk and Brighton which are all fairly intact as well. We lost an entire neighborhood in the Kenyon Barr urban revitalization (the west end), but the other neighborhoods remained, (or at least the general bones of them)
October 14, 20168 yr Check out the detail in this KodaChrome from the 1940's. I stumbled on it randomly and had never seen it before. LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS!!!! I posted it on the Save the Dennison Hotel site as it is the first shot Ive seen from above in color & with all the neighboring buildings intact. My guess is that that photo was taken from the Carew Tower. Based on the angle, I think it probably was not from the Observation Deck, but from a lower level. Would love to see somebody try to re-create this shot. Gave it a shot. From the fact that you see the back of the Enquirer cornice i thought it had to be from the Omni, but nope, you were right probably about the 20-somethingish floor. Tried to catch the same area though.
May 5, 20178 yr Author The Groton Lofts at 7th and Race. The owner of Che in Over-the-Rhine will soon open a new restaurant called The Butcher and Barrel in the ground floor retail space.
May 22, 20178 yr Took this Saturday night when the storm was rolling in. Looks like the UFO from Independence Day.
May 22, 20178 yr Took this Saturday night when the storm was rolling in. Looks like the UFO from Independence Day. Nice! I got a good look at that from Covington, my place faces West with no obstructions.
May 23, 20178 yr My friends were at Prima Vista that night and said that the entire crowd at the restaurant was captivated by it. They all described it the same way: Independence Day mothership. In fact storm chasers call these mothership shelf clouds.
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