Posted February 13, 200718 yr From the 12/18/06 Enquirer: PHOTO: Former Reds owner Powel Crosley Jr. built the English Tudor mansion it, seen here from the rear lawn, for about $750,000 in 1927. PHOTO: Powel Crosley Jr. PHOTO: The estimated 2,000 people who toured the mansion during a rare public opening for a book signing discovered that much of the interior was as Crosley built it. PHOTOS BY CARA OWSLEY / THE ENQUIRER PHOTO GALLERIES Photos: Crosley mansion The house that Powel built Powel Crosley's Pinecroft mansion - a 'hidden treasure' on the Mercy Hospital Mount Airy grounds - could see its glory restored BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | [email protected] The grand parties like the ones Powel Crosley Jr. threw at Pinecroft estate could return to his old Mount Airy mansion next year. "This is a hidden treasure. We want to restore this place, and turn it into a community asset," says Paul C. Hiltz, president and CEO of Mercy Hospital Mount Airy. The hospital was built on the Kipling Avenue land after the 1961 death of the 74-year-old Crosley, Cincinnati industrialist, WLW-AM founder and former Cincinnati Reds owner. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061218/LIFE/612180302/1025/rss05
February 13, 200718 yr Man...they sure don't build like that anymore! That Enquirer Photo Gallery was amazing...all the detail in the bldg, and unique features (wine cellar, that stone stairway, the doorhandle). Awesome home!
March 13, 200718 yr Push is on to restore the Crosley Mansion JOE WESSELS | CINCINNATI POST March 13, 2007 PHOTO: Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, left, and City Council Member Jim Tarbell tour the Powel Crosley Mansion in Mt. Airy. JOE WESSELS/for The Post MT AIRY - There is a fortune's worth of Rookwood Pottery tile buried behind the Crosley Mansion in Mount Airy. The tile lined the swimming pool, which was filled in sometime after the home's owner, Powel Crosley Jr., died in 1961. Now, Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell, who both toured the home on Kipling Avenue Monday, think that not only should the pool be unearthed, but the whole building should be renovated and turned into a museum that could also be used for wedding, retreats and other events. http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/NEWS01/703130377
March 13, 200718 yr a thread like this needs a pic! i googled -- is this it? if so, its begging to be put to good public use for sure.
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