On the west side of Hamilton, the New London Road area holds some of the most impressive homes and three beautiful parks. As far as older homes go, Oak Park and Forest Hills take the cake. Both these 1930/40's subdivisions were developed by Ellis Potter, a New York businessman who grew up in Hamilton. Before developing the land, he donated extensive acerage for Hamilton's first municipal golf course, Potter's Park, which opened in 1927. Forest Hills abuts and overlooks the course's greens.

 

To start, Forest Hills:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we go...

 

Oakwood, Maplewood, Elmwood...are you catching the pattern?

 

 

 

Concrete light poles?

 

Okay, so I like this one

 

City of Sculpture, remember?

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the big boxy windows

 

 

Someone let this one go...  :cry:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:-o

 

The view (and this is winter)

 

Again

 

Again

 

 

 

And this is the back of another house

 

A look back

 

 

Signing out from Forest Hills

 

A couple pics of Potter Park from this summer

 

The clubhouse (if you could only see behind that dumb fence)

 

One of many stone feactures

 

Between Forest Hills and Rossville lies Oak Park

 

 

 

This is actually the back of this new house that looks to have a great view of the city accross the river

 

Another back

 

 

I didn't have the guts to walk up the hill and get the whole thing

 

Under renovation

 

 

 

 

 

How about trimming the bushes?

 

These pics are moved over from the Rossville thread, all contain Oak Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why not?

 

For kicks, I thought I'd throw in the Colligan Lodge in Veteran's Park which is roughly in the area

 

Built in 1932 for the American Legion, it was recently restored and used for banquets and events

 

 

A patio

 

With a view

 

Why they call it Veterans Park

 

 

Hamilton Core Galleries

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 1 - Downtown

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10975.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 2 – Main Street Business District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5108.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 3 - Dayton Lane Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5269.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 4 - Rossville Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5417.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 5 - Glorious Old Industry

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6730.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 6 - German Village Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6958.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 7 - Historic Highland Park

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7208.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 8 - Southeast Neighborhood

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7309.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 9 - Prospect Hill and Grandview

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8025.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 10 - Forest Hills and Oak Park

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8107.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 11 - Greenwood Cemetery and St. Stephen's Cemetery

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8438.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 12 - Lindenwald

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9336.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 13 - Hyde Park and Verlyn Place

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8424.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 14 – Historic Images of City Life and Atmospheres

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8668.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 15 – Art Deco etc.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8830.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 16 - The Gardens of Rossville

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9262.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 17 - The Northend and Fordson Heights

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9501.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 18 - The East Avenue Ghetto and Jefferson

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10146.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 19 - Butler County Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10205.0

Nice tour!  A few of those seem to have a bit of an Oakwood/western Kettering look to them.

 

By the way, I love the shot with half a head in it! :lol:

By the way, I love the shot with half a head in it! :lol:

 

It took me 4 times of scanning to see what you meant, I thought you were losing your mind. I removed the pic with the jogger, it was rather gross once I caught it. :lol:

There's some nice ass houses in that tour :) Thanks.

I would LOVE to list any of these homes, but they don't come up for sale very often.  Nice shots.

Hamiltucky

I make nearly 10 threads, all of which in hopes to undo the stereotypes that have have held Hamilton back for years, and there it is again, right in my face. :cry:

^Haha I just did that to get a reaction out of you. I had this crazy friend from Hamilton and everywhere we'd go they'd ask where we were from and he'd say he was from Hamilton and everyone would say "Hamiltucky!?" lol I've driven past the mansions in the "Historic district" or whatever it's called, it is nice. However, F street where he lived was not.

^Well...whatever. It will never die. Maybe one day I'll show you F street.

nice tour, once again.  I've heard "hamiltucky" "middletucky" "brunstucky" (brunswick around cleveland) so I dont think the ripping of the state of kentucky is directed solely at hamilton.

bah