Posted October 29, 200816 yr From the city's website: Stately stone walls with tall piers frame the entrance to [Alms Park]. Installed in 1929, this gateway reflects the formal approach taken in the design of the park by Albert D. Taylor, a Cleveland-based landscape architect of national stature. This hilltop park was given to the Park Board in 1916 as a memorial to Frederick H. Alms by his wife. The land was once owned by Nicholas Longworth, who produced his famous Catawba wine there before the Civil War. The entrance to his underground wine cellar can still be seen to the northeast of the pavilion. The park also offers a concrete slide and terraced overlooks. Cincinnati park pavillions are mindblowing Two-story restroom (men on bottom, of course) That is it for the year, the leaves are falling. Cincy Parks Photo Thread Index: Vol. 1: Piatt Park Vol. 2: Ault Park Vol. 3: International Friendship Park Vol. 4: Bicentenial Commons Vol. 5: Eden Park Vol. 6: Mount Echo Park Vol. 7: Mount Storm Park Vol. 8: Alms Park
October 29, 200816 yr Great park, that restroom building was just recently restored. I'm proud to call this park my office.
October 29, 200816 yr ^There was some strange dude hanging around the walkway up to the Hillside Trust office, otherwise I would have included it.
October 29, 200816 yr I love Alms. I used to go there sometimes after school to do homework at the Lunken Overlook and watch the planes take off :-)
October 29, 200816 yr ^There was some strange dude hanging around the walkway up to the Hillside Trust office, otherwise I would have included it. There are often times Cincinnati Park employees that just seem to hang around there. It could have also been my boss, but he doesn't tend to give off that "strange dude" look.
October 29, 200816 yr Best park in the city. Got engaged at pic 2. A great place to think and get some sun in the spring and fall.
October 29, 200816 yr No pictures of the concrete slide? Isn't there also one of those at Burnet Woods?
October 29, 200816 yr Neato. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 23, 200816 yr Alms is such a great park, I married Mrs. RiverViewer there six years ago! ...love this series - I know you want to portray the parks in the glories of their foliage-filled parkiness, but a little wintertime action is pretty cool too!
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