With the unusually warm temperatures last Friday, I took a stroll through Highland Park on Hamilton's west side.

 

Some historical perspective on the neighborhood and time:

http://www.duricy.com/~highlandpark/homeworthhaving.shtml

 

 

 

Park Ave. Methodist, really should be called Dick Ave. Methodist, but they used the side street for some reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the only neighborhood in Hamilton that I've ever seen a teardown, this one for an addition to a neighboring house

 

 

My favorite...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The neighborhood features many smaller homes with just as much character

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fort Hamilton Hospital in the distance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats a nice neighborhood.  Reminds me of Cleveland Hts., Shaker Hts & Beachwood.

Hamilton looks to be a nice town.  Why, I wonder, did everyone make fun of Hamilton when I lived in Ohio?

Comfortable.

Hamilton looks to be a nice town.  Why, I wonder, did everyone make fun of Hamilton when I lived in Ohio?

 

Hamilton definately has its good and bad parts (like almost all places)...ink does a nice job a highlighting the good and keeping the bad to a minimum.  BTW, Highland Park is probably my favorite neighborhood in the city!

Nice shots.  All the houses look remarkably well-maintained.

Very pleasant-looking place!

Great post.  I've always loved that neighborhood even though it is on the West Side.  I have an East Side bias :)

Such beautiful, graceful old homes, sort of an Ohio version of "Wisteria Lane." It was refreshing to see the absence of those hideous, out-of-scale McMansions that are blighting other similar neighborhoods across the nation (After all, why not tear down a perfectly gracious, aesthetically appealing edifice which complements the other structures surrounding it and replace it with a garish eyesore the rest of the neighborhood can rally around to hate?). Perhaps in Hamilton there is an ordinance wisely in place in that prevents this type of overdevelopment.

That's a cute neighborhood.

Hamilton definately has its good and bad parts (like almost all places)...ink does a nice job a highlighting the good and keeping the bad to a minimum.

 

I'd like to think that I find the good within the bad.

It looks so pleasant and fallish.

reminds me of old orchard, toledo, along with cleveland's heights area. 

Wow, I had no idea there were neighborhoods in Hamilton that nice.  Can you pinpoint the area on the map for me, I'd like to go take a look at these houses.

^Hamilton has many attractive neighborhoods. Here is a map with Highland Park marked. I also tagged Oak Park and Forest Park, which contain larger housing from the same era (tutors, colonials, etc.).

 

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103616666891168852861.0004622106e0d2bce476f&z=14

 

I have some family friends that live in either Oak Park or Forest Hills (one of the ones where you cross the river and turn left and go up a hill...?). There is some serious money up in those neighborhoods in Hamilton.  My friend's mother grew up in one of those huge mansions on Grandin in Hyde Park, and her mother was one of those original "blue book" society families of Cincinnati.