I lied, these photos are mostly from August.  But there is already an August thread, take a look here:

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,17041.0.html

 

 

Here are the new photos, in no particular order...

 

C&O RR viaduct & crooked bridge over Mehring Way:

 

Waldvogel Viaduct:

 

Lower Price Hill looking toward Price Hill:

 

Ohio River & River Rd. from the Waldvogel Viaduct:

 

Southern RR bridge viewed from Elberon Ave.:

 

Mt. Hope Rd. looking south across Ohio River to Kentucky hills:

 

Renovated row homes on Mt. Hope:

 

Price Hill near incline overlook:

 

Grand Ave.:

 

Lower Price Hill rows:

 

Lehman Hill:

 

Waldvogel Viaduct ramps from Elberon Ave.:

 

Western Hills Viaduct viewed from Harrison Ave. hill:

 

South Fairmount row houses:

 

Lower Price Hill:

 

Corner of Queen City & Harrison:

 

Western Hills Viaduct staircase:

 

Union Terminal:

 

Queensgate RR yard:

 

I-275 Cropper Bridge

 

QCS garage demolition:

 

Lower Price Hill:

 

Newport, KY:

 

Square tree on Euclid Ave.:

 

View of Mt. Adams & Big Mac Bridge from Newport hills:

 

Fairview row homes:

 

Covington panoramic:

 

Tow approaching Markland dam 1200ft. chamber:

 

Markland dam auxiliary 600ft. chamber:

 

Argosy Casino expansion:

 

Great American Ballpark:

 

Roebling Suspension Bridge at night:

 

Bridge tower & Paul Brown Stadium:

 

Before the fireworks:

 

Fireworks:

 

Skyline viewed from GABP:

 

Price Hill viewed from Ludlow, KY:

 

Ridiculous new house under construction in Indian Hill:

 

More Indian Hill:

 

Downtown:

 

The Place:

 

Garage demo:

 

Garage demo:

 

Garage demo:

 

Suburban bliss:

 

The Delta Queen steams downriver beneath the Brent Spence Bridge:

 

The Delta Queen steams downriver at the Ohio/Indiana border:

 

Nice! You got some stuff you don't usually see on this forum. I really like Waldvogel Viaduct. It's a lot of fun driving through that industrial wasteland. I used to ride the school bus across the 8th street viaduct and think about all the potential down below. There's a lot of history in those areas and I don't think people realize a lot of those factories in Lower Price Hill are still in business. It's too bad the whole area by the Kroger plant stinks to high hell.

 

That really big house in Indian Hill looks ridiculous. I'm surprised residents aren't up in arms. A lot of the stuff they're building there (Carson Palmer's current house for example) looks like it belongs in Rollman estates in Amberly Village, not an historic neighborhood like Indian Hill. The sh!t is tacky. Hah. Stucco in Indian Hill.

 

Nice collection.

>It's a lot of fun driving through that industrial wasteland

 

Beekman Ave, State Ave, and Lower Price Hill are almost impossible to photograph.  The people are always sitting outside arguing with each other or just plain staring at passers-by.  I even had some clown in his underwear yelling at me when I was on the viaduct taking photos.

 

Where is Carson Palmer's house?  Indian Hill actually has a lot of tacky stuff in it but the mature forest tends to take the edge off.  The whole time I'm in Indian Hill, I feel like I'm in trouble, like their police force is just going to swallow me whole and I'll never be heard from again.  There's hardly anyone around so I find Indian Hill just plain creepy.  It takes up 1/10th of the county but only has 5,000 residents and you have to figure 1,000 of them are out of town at any given time.       

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j231/jmecklenborg/suspension-panorama-small.jpg

^Great photograph.

 

Question: Were you up here as part of a special group or something for the fireworks or is this tower always open as an observation deck to the public?

I love Indian Hill.  It is very peaceful.

>It's a lot of fun driving through that industrial wasteland

 

Beekman Ave, State Ave, and Lower Price Hill are almost impossible to photograph. The people are always sitting outside arguing with each other or just plain staring at passers-by. I even had some clown in his underwear yelling at me when I was on the viaduct taking photos.

 

Where is Carson Palmer's house? Indian Hill actually has a lot of tacky stuff in it but the mature forest tends to take the edge off. The whole time I'm in Indian Hill, I feel like I'm in trouble, like their police force is just going to swallow me whole and I'll never be heard from again. There's hardly anyone around so I find Indian Hill just plain creepy. It takes up 1/10th of the county but only has 5,000 residents and you have to figure 1,000 of them are out of town at any given time.

 

Carson Palmer stays on Whispering Hill Drive. His house is a staple McMansion (though I'm not gonna lie, I'd take it over anything I could ever afford lol).  Indian Hill police probably have a high sense of importance since they're paid above 70k a year.

 

I think it's an appalachian/white trash thing in Lower P-Hill (don't take offense, I didn't live too far away). The people are very territorial, they all know each other - their families have been there for several generations so I can see what you're talking about. If they've never seen you before then you're not from that neighborhood because no one goes to Lower Price Hill unless they live there. Especially if you're taking pictures. I think Cincinnati neighborhoods in general are hard to photograph because so many neighborhoods are isolated like that. Fun fact: The Paradise Cafe (I'm sure it's boarded up and closed by now) was the place they based the cafe in "Happy Days" off of. The writer or director who came up with the concept used to go in there all the time (at least that's what I was told). The layout was even the same but they've changed it over the decades. It's at 8th and State.

>Were you up here as part of a special group or something for the fireworks or is this tower always open as an observation deck to the public?

 

They only let the families of City of Covington employees on the bridge during the fireworks.  If you happen to know someone who works higher up for the city (*cough*) then you can sign a waiver and go to the top of the tower.  It's absolutely not open to the public because you actually have to climb at the top over a high railing.  It's ridiculously unsafe and you can't do it if you're fat but they had to do it that way to keep from tampering with the appearance of the bridge.  Believe it or not originally a rope ladder was used to climb into the towers from the inside of the arches.  If you look really close you can see the hatch from the walkways.  The climb today is way too much for smokers and couch potatoes to handle and the staircase is only wide enough for one person.  So public tours wouldn't work because you'd have people out of breath holding everyone up.     

Edit: Mr. Mecklenborg, Didn't mean to hijack your thread with questions or links, probably should've just pmed you, sorry for this waste of a post.

 

Great photographs! It's been great to see two different photographic perspectives on the Labor Day fireworks from both you and CincyImages. I have never gotten to photograph, nor attend those fireworks due to me having to work every Labor Day weekend or been out of town with family.

I loved these photos. Great work!

Great shots, but did you really need to call my new Indian Hill pad "ridiculous"?

....did you really need to call my new Indian Hill pad "ridiculous"?

 

How about "craptastic"?

I guess some people would rather have 10 rooms they will NEVER step foot in. In Ohio, the bigger the house is, the better, generally. It doesn't even matter how bland the house looks. I'd rather take the 5 million (or however much the house and land costs) and buy a penthouse.

I guess some people would rather have 10 rooms they will NEVER step foot in. In Ohio, the bigger the house is, the better, generally. It doesn't even matter how bland the house looks. I'd rather take the 5 million (or however much the house and land costs) and buy a penthouse.

 

Pre war homes are the answer!  This new stuff sucks!

^Says the man in Shaker Square...oy.

 

Anyway, fantastic photos!

Just for clarification, the Indian Hill house with the red tile roof isn't stucco.  It's the same kind of blond brick that is on the Michigan Terrace building in Hyde Park (or at least similar to it).  I thought it looked better when they were putting the brick on it.  At first it looked like it was going to look like a one of a kind mansion, but a few months ago I drove by and in person it just looks like an over-sized McMansion type home.  Indian Hill may have a historical society and a lot of old homes, but it's not really a historic area in general.  They tear down old homes all the time.  They tore down a very historical home at 8700 Shawnee Run about 2 years ago and split the property in half for new construction.  It was called Mt. Olympus and I think the original part of the home was built in the early 1800's.  If you go on the auditor site and look it up there are still 2 exterior photos on there, but all other information says it is a vacant lot.  The current owner is one of the Davis guys that run one of those check cashing businesses.  I can't remember his name, but his dad is the guy that built that huge 20,000+ sq. ft. home on Camargo (near the little red school building) that Stan Chesley owns now.

 

Here's the only link I could find for that Mt. Olympus house, it's just a letter to the editor of the local Indian Hill news letter (it's on page 4):

 

http://www.ci.indian-hill.oh.us/asp/data/bulletins/february%20bulletin.pdf

^Says the man in Shaker Square...oy.

 

Anyway, fantastic photos!

 

Man you damn right, I grew up in a pre war "home".  No offense to anyone who lives or has built a new home, but they look like crap to me!

^Says the man in Shaker Square...oy.

 

Anyway, fantastic photos!

 

Man you damn right, I grew up in a pre war "home".   No offense to anyone who lives or has built a new home, but they look like crap to me!

 

Crap usually wrapped in plastic or vinyl!

This might be my favorite photo thread of all time.  Absolutely amazing collection of interesting/unique photographs.

 

Awesome pics.  Where is "The Place"  Ludlow?  Bellevue?  Bromley?  Looks fun.

I guess some people would rather have 10 rooms they will NEVER step foot in. In Ohio, the bigger the house is, the better, generally. It doesn't even matter how bland the house looks. I'd rather take the 5 million (or however much the house and land costs) and buy a penthouse.

 

$5 Million?! ... take that and multiply it by 3.

I guess some people would rather have 10 rooms they will NEVER step foot in. In Ohio, the bigger the house is, the better, generally. It doesn't even matter how bland the house looks. I'd rather take the 5 million (or however much the house and land costs) and buy a penthouse.

 

$5 Million?! ... take that and multiply it by 3.

 

If that house is worth approximately $15 million I'll french kiss c-dawg on the steps of athens city hall and have TMZ there for photo ops!

What street is that house on? It was just built; probably isn't on the auditor's site yet. If it is 15 million, it must be on a big chunk of land in IH.

It's at 9150 Cunningham Rd. A house of similar size is located behind the greenbelt behind this house and it sold for $8,000,000 a few years ago, so this one will probably be valued in that range. I don't know of any house in SW Ohio that has sold higher than $8m so far.  This red roof house is on 5.4 acres.  The current owner paid $1,650,000 for the vacant lot in 2005 (which had a ranch house on it and was torn down by the previous owner).

Wonderful photos, all scenes that are new to me except the craptastic "mansion" under construction. I've seen that thing in a photo somewhere before.

^ I think that Indian Hill house was in a youtube video. At least someone, somewhere posted a drive-by video of it under construction.

 

I don't have the slightest problem with big absurd mansions in general. However, I do have a problem with idiots using McMansion architecture for actual mansions. Why would you copy the style of a LOWER market segment??

 

Don't they understand that McMansions have 10 rooflines and ugly asymmetrical windows because they are specifically designed to make a 4,000 square foot house seem even bigger on first impression?

 

If you are building an ACTUAL 15,000 sqft mansion, you can use ACTUAL style, and the house will still look impressive.

 

The builders of that house are obviously trying to mimic a Tuscan villa. Why the bloody hell didn't they build one for real? Or for that matter, they could have copied a Palladian villa. It would have probably increased the resale value of the house anyway.

 

>Where is "The Place"  Ludlow?  Bellevue?  Bromley?  Looks fun.

 

I don't know what it's called.  You can't see it from the riverside street, you have to turn down a little dip toward the river and around a bend.  In other words, you have to know where it is.  It's roughly on the Bromley/Ludlow border. 

 

>If you are building an ACTUAL 15,000 sqft mansion, you can use ACTUAL style, and the house will still look impressive.

 

I'm sure a lot of people are mad about this house.  What makes matters worse is they cut down a lot of trees along the street and the house is relatively close to the street so there's no missing it.  I think Stan Chesley's house is pretty disgusting too since it's so visible and has something like 12 garages.   

 

 

I couldn't live in that place.

I guess some people would rather have 10 rooms they will NEVER step foot in. In Ohio, the bigger the house is, the better, generally. It doesn't even matter how bland the house looks. I'd rather take the 5 million (or however much the house and land costs) and buy a penthouse.

 

$5 Million?! ... take that and multiply it by 3.

 

If that house is worth approximately $15 million I'll french kiss c-dawg on the steps of athens city hall and have TMZ there for photo ops!

 

When is the date? ;)

very nice pictures ..

 

please where is the Waldvogel Viadukt ?

 

 

I guess some people would rather have 10 rooms they will NEVER step foot in. In Ohio, the bigger the house is, the better, generally. It doesn't even matter how bland the house looks. I'd rather take the 5 million (or however much the house and land costs) and buy a penthouse.

 

$5 Million?! ... take that and multiply it by 3.

 

If that house is worth approximately $15 million I'll french kiss c-dawg on the steps of athens city hall and have TMZ there for photo ops!

 

When is the date? ;)

Nevah!

please where is the Waldvogel Viadukt ?

.. apropo:

WALDVOGEL ....

is a german word .. for

"bird in the wood"

 

.. OK i have found ....