September 25, 20177 yr They've started demolition on two of these three on Vine: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1542621,-84.5065343,3a,75y,91h,92.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbk2pz3HG7VGZiQicsDZ3vg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en These three are finally on the ground. They stopped and started demo a couple different times.
September 25, 20177 yr They've started demolition on two of these three on Vine: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1542621,-84.5065343,3a,75y,91h,92.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbk2pz3HG7VGZiQicsDZ3vg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en These three are finally on the ground. They stopped and started demo a couple different times. Those three parcels are owned by the Hamilton County Landbank.
September 26, 20177 yr Curious as to why there is historic district zone for Camp Washington. I would say for the same reason it is elsewhere. It is a tool to help preserve the existing building stock. The Cincinnati Preservation Collective just had a walk through the Neighborhood Sunday and it was very informative. The artists, musicians and younger folk in rehabbed factory lofts share the neighborhood with lifelong residents and are close to lots of things without the entertainment zone feel some other areas are striving for. They have lost much with the highways the suburban exit feel of what Hopple became and the loss of employers like Kahns & the old Workhouse. The historic district tries to keep together what is left. There is quite a bit of history down in the valley. The foreground of the pic is now I-75 but a lot of the buildings in this pic are still there, and this is probably no later than the 1920's if not earlier. https://scontent.fluk1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21743666_1794531600576198_3863799467752336126_o.jpg?oh=b042796767387a2515107f2a4cf6537c&oe=5A54892D
September 26, 20177 yr I know that a lot of the historic structures have been lost, but I don't know why we wouldn't want to save the ones that remain...
September 26, 20177 yr Is that building outside of the historic boundaries I'm guessing? Curious why it's being allowed for demo when it could be repurposed for something more useful than a parking lot.
September 26, 20177 yr I know that a lot of the historic structures have been lost, but I don't know why we wouldn't want to save the ones that remain... So odd that the current owner is an accounting and engineering consultancy with 4 employees. Bought it on 08 for only 165,000. Back in the late 90's i used to frequently visit the old school print company that is still across the street and this place was actively still a metal/machine shop that was humming along. Looks like Powell Valves sold it off to the current owner (after owning it since 1947) in 08 and it went downhill FAST. Tax write off?
November 10, 20177 yr 160 year-old Riester's Tavern in White Oak torn down: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/green-township/2017/11/10/white-oak-loses-piece-its-past-riesters-tavern-torn-down/848830001/ I had no idea this place was built in the 1850s. I remember having a party in there when I was a kid at the end of a baseball season and it wasn't very remarkable on the inside.
November 13, 20177 yr Someone on Facebook mentioned that the buildings at 308-316 Main Street, currently owned by 3CDC, are once again for sale. Hopefully this won't be a repeat of the Dennison Hotel scenario, where a developer buys them with the intention to demolish.
January 28, 20187 yr What is the status of the protection of buildings on Auburn Ave.? Aside from the Taft house, it seems like any and everything is vulnerable to the wrecking ball. There is a ton of land in between Wellington and Hollister that wasn't developed in the 1800s but which could be easily graded now. In fact everything between Wellington and McMillan St. is in danger: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1251168,-84.5108933,551m/data=!3m1!1e3
January 28, 20187 yr Mount Auburn is really just a crappy location for such a large hospital, even if we ignore the historical significance of the stuff that Christ (and Uptown now) keeps tearing down. It's in the heart of a residential area, abutting a very narrow thoroughfare and a steep hillside which is also full of tight, out-of-the-way roads. And the MLK interchange doesn't make it any more accessible for ambulances. “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
January 31, 20187 yr Apparently this house in Walnut Hills has had a demolition permit issued... What a waste. I've seen buildings in worse shape in Detroit get rehabbed instead of demolished. “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
January 31, 20187 yr ^ That really sucks, but isn't all too surprising. Typical Cincinnati self destruction.
February 5, 20187 yr Apparently this house in Walnut Hills has had a demolition permit issued... What a waste. I've seen buildings in worse shape in Detroit get rehabbed instead of demolished. OTR Adopt is trying to save the building. Email of owner: [email protected] Please send a polite email explaining why they should allow otr adopt to save this historic gem.
February 5, 20187 yr ^Any relation to Shree Kulkarni of Conservation Board/Dennison Hotel infamy, or just an odd coincidence? EDIT: Poking around on Kulkarni Properties' website, it appears there's some sort of connection between them; Samir's company Solica Construction is linked on Kulkarni Properties' "about" page. “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
February 5, 20187 yr Incidentally, there have been A LOT of one-off demolitions in Walnut Hills recently, although mostly poor-quality wood homes. I wouldn't doubt that developers are trying to assemble strips of lots for future row house development.
February 5, 20187 yr Around the zoo, along Vine St near Forest Ave, there have been been several demolitions lately (mostly run down properties). Looking at CAGIS, the zoo owns a lot of the properties around there. The Hamilton County landbank also owns a lot of land there. I'm not sure if the Zoo intends to expand in that direction, or if they're just trying to remove blighted properties. The zoo also has demolished all of the properties along Louis Ave up to Euclid Ave.
February 5, 20187 yr Yeah, very few occupied buildings remain on the south side of Erkebrecker. Also, the land is now completely cleared for Children's and the re-routing of Erkenbrecker.
February 5, 20187 yr They are beginning to disappear on Beldare now with a lot more frequency as well.
February 5, 20187 yr I forget who said it, but during the Childrens Hospital expansion debate, someone said, "we need to stop thinking of these neighborhoods as developable land." It's a perfect quote because that's exactly the attitude that these large institutions have towards Uptown. I have very little hope that many historic homes will survive while the Zoo, the hospitals, UC, and large apartment developers swallow up those neighborhoods.
February 9, 20187 yr Cross-posting from the Eighth and Main thread: This might be overly trivial of me to mention (sorry I'm still new here), but North American Properties seems to have applied for a demo/new building permit for the southwest corner of 8th and Main, 721 Main Street. That was February 5th, so it seems like things are indeed moving along here. Here's the link: https://cagis.hamilton-co.org/opal/apd.aspx?QSPerm=2018P01085 That is a good sign that the project is moving forward. In the past, the developer promised to not tear down the existing building until all financing/details were in place to begin construction on new building.
February 9, 20187 yr I forget who said it, but during the Childrens Hospital expansion debate, someone said, "we need to stop thinking of these neighborhoods as developable land." It's a perfect quote because that's exactly the attitude that these large institutions have towards Uptown. I have very little hope that many historic homes will survive while the Zoo, the hospitals, UC, and large apartment developers swallow up those neighborhoods. Heathcare has turned into an amoeba.
March 7, 20187 yr I heard on the Raymond Thundersky Facebook page that this office building started coming down today. No big loss at all as it was looking quite ratty the last few years but i wonder if it for the new 75 bridge project or for new development? Too bad they couldn't cap the highway here and put the new FCC stadium here across from the giant CINCINNATI sign and skyline backdrop. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1031593,-84.5286561,3a,75y,124.69h,96.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRaVuNqsBOnw8ohEthRQG8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
March 7, 20187 yr And so it goes. Cincinnati Gardens is going down starting today. https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/bond-hill/watch-live-crews-demolish-cincinnati-gardens
April 19, 20187 yr 408 W Liberty St (1880 three-family brick building) is being torn down. Are there any historic overlay requirements in this part of the West End? In other words, did the owner need to go through any approval process to get the demolition permit? http://wedge3.hcauditor.org/view/re/1330006028600/2017/summary Photo from earlier today:
April 19, 20187 yr Here's a map of all of the local historic districts around the West End. Although the map needs to be updated to show the Sohn-Mohawk Historic District that was just approved. It connects the Mohawk-Bellevue and OTR historic districts around McMicken and Central Parkway.
April 19, 20187 yr There are no protections on that stretch of Liberty in the West End. I saw they had taken the top floor and roof off last fall so it was only a matter of time till they took the rest. It's a shame. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
April 20, 20187 yr Fencing is up around the red brick industrial building on Reading road south of Kinsey. Guessing for demolition. Would’ve been a cool adaptive reuse for some kind of light industrial or fabrication shop/studio, but too late now I suppose. www.cincinnatiideas.com
April 20, 20187 yr Fencing is up around the red brick industrial building on Reading road south of Kinsey. Guessing for demolition. Wouldve been a cool adaptive reuse for some kind of light industrial or fabrication shop/studio, but too late now I suppose. Kingsley Development bought up all of that and the vacant parcels around it for a total over $1 million a week or so ago. Must be their new project since their version of the Central Parkway Kroger fell through..
April 25, 20187 yr Greater Cincinnati house built in 1825 to be razed One of Greater Cincinnati’s oldest homes will soon be torn down, the Enquirer reports. Fairfield City Council voted unanimously Monday night to spend $18,000 to demolish the Cooper house on the former 3.3-acre Muskopf farm, which was bought by the city with an Ohio Public Works Commission grant in 2016 to expand Marsh Park. The action came a week after the city’s park board voted unanimously to disband the Muskopf Property Ad Hoc Committee and recommend demolition of the home located at 6460 River Road. The barn, garage and other farm-related structures were torn down last year. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/25/greater-cincinnati-house-built-in-1825-to-be-razed.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 25, 20187 yr It's such a shame that these municipalities surrounding Cincinnati seem to have zero awareness of historic preservation and zero desire to preserve any historic structures.
June 14, 20187 yr Latest HCB packet has a petition to demolish the little gas station at 262 W McMicken. No immediate plans for the property. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/buildings/historic-conservation/historic-conservation-board/june-18-2018-staff-report-and-attachments/
June 15, 20187 yr Latest HCB packet has a petition to demolish the little gas station at 262 W McMicken. No immediate plans for the property. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/buildings/historic-conservation/historic-conservation-board/june-18-2018-staff-report-and-attachments/ This has been advocated for years from community members as it is an absolute magnet for drug dealing, prostitution, open air toilets, and worse. The city had to step in to declare it a nuisance as somehow in the past the gas station was split into three separate lots under separate ownership making it impossible to get anything done.
June 21, 20186 yr Iconic St. Rita’s Haunted House to be demolished A historic building that was home to a Cincinnati icon for nearly 40 years is being torn down. The red brick house on the hill of St. Rita School for the Deaf’s campus that was used for the school’s annual haunted house from 1977 until 2015 will be torn down June 20-22. The house is one of the last remaining original buildings on the school’s campus. It was built prior to the Civil War and was once used as the boys’ dormitory. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/06/20/iconic-st-rita-s-haunted-house-to-be-demolished.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 14, 20186 yr So some good news for once...the appeals court denied the demolition of the Davis furniture building in today’s ruling.
December 26, 20186 yr I saw these windows on 4th St. wide open on Christmas Day: Who are these idiots? Supposedly this building is for sale or is actively being converted into condos, but come on, close the windows.
February 18, 20196 yr The demolition of Deaconess Hospital began on Saturday. As of Sunday night nearly all of the oldest part of the building facing Clifton Ave. is down.
May 1, 20196 yr On 9/24/2013 at 12:30 PM, taestell said: With demolitions like the Friar's Club, the Schiel School, the Goetz House, and numerous homes in Corryville, the urban fabric has already been damaged too badly I did a post not long ago about the Friars Club murals, painted by Lumen Martin Winter: http://abandonedonline.net/friars-club-murals/ The mural looked oddly familiar and evoked Classicism, Modernism Regionalism, and Romanticism styles, which I've seen in numerous other WPA-era murals in post offices and buildings, including the abandoned Armory in Detroit. In fact, I came across one in Boston last weekend which I swore was painted by Winter but was mistaken. "While living in the now-demolished Friars Club in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1941 and 1944, Lumen Martin Winter painted murals on the walls of the residents’ lounge. The 1,600 square-foot scenes, painted in tempera emulsion on a casein ground, depicted regional highlights of industry, music, religion, and literature. Winter had labored on the murals for four years, although his work was interrupted for 18 months while he was enlisted as a chief artist illustrator for the Air Force’s Signal Corps. The murals were dedicated on November 12, 1944."
May 3, 20196 yr ^So sad and fascinating: Interesting read on , Lumen Martin Winter, the man himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_Martin_Winter
May 29, 20196 yr Anyone here know who was able to salvage the Hudepohl art deco medallion logo, lower facade and polished stainless canopy before they started demo? Just curious if it was a private collector or if it would pop up somewhere local where i could see it again. Ive taken long exposure photos and other photos of it for years and was just curious. In other news it looks like the demo has begun, with them removing the casement windows and what salvageable metal was left as well is setting up cranes and carefully pealing back the connection to the part that looks to be staying in the back where the keg pick-up was.
May 30, 20196 yr 16 hours ago, SleepyLeroy said: Anyone here know who was able to salvage the Hudepohl art deco medallion logo, lower facade and polished stainless canopy before they started demo? Just curious if it was a private collector or if it would pop up somewhere local where i could see it again. Ive taken long exposure photos and other photos of it for years and was just curious. In other news it looks like the demo has begun, with them removing the casement windows and what salvageable metal was left as well is setting up cranes and carefully pealing back the connection to the part that looks to be staying in the back where the keg pick-up was. Yes, the Brewery District CURC is working with the Port to salvage them. No current plans for reuse as of yet.
May 30, 20196 yr 5 hours ago, mcmicken said: Yes, the Brewery District CURC is working with the Port to salvage them. No current plans for reuse as of yet. Thanks much!!! glad these bits git to live on and tell their story.
June 7, 20196 yr On 5/30/2019 at 1:53 PM, SleepyLeroy said: Thanks much!!! glad these bits git to live on and tell their story. Demolition continues. Entry and a neon sign box were salvaged today and are in storage. Edited June 7, 20196 yr by mcmicken
June 7, 20196 yr If interested and i can find the negatives I'll donate one of my night photos of the art deco entry to go with the collection of stuff. They were from before it got graffiti tagged on the stoneas well. Ive seen that H before in the background of urban explorer pics from the past just sitting up on the roof with some of the other letters. Pretty sweet finds! Is the smokestack going to be last? I'd like to try and get there to see it go.
June 7, 20196 yr I always assumed it was the H from here but i guess not. Looks like a different font and smaller.
June 10, 20196 yr On 6/7/2019 at 2:09 PM, SleepyLeroy said: I always assumed it was the H from here but i guess not. Looks like a different font and smaller. I've been trying to find a photo of the neon that has that particular H we salvaged as well. Word from the demo guys onsite is smokestack is coming down this Friday 6/14. Conventional demolition, no implosion.
June 10, 20196 yr ^^^ Thanks Much!!! I may have to take a day off for it. I saw the one for Stearns & Foster up in Lockland come down in a similar way where they just took a chunk out of the bottom and it tipped like a tree. With the base of this one up so high and in the middle of the site this may be way more dramatic. Sad to see it go though.
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