This often overlooked part of the city is a rather large grouping of buildings in the neighborhood just above Prospect Hill.  Most of it is between Channing and Ringgold and along Young and Josephine, kind of in the area of Filson Park.  Here's a hybrid map.  You can kind of make out the larger buildings:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.114529,-84.506536&spn=0.004421,0.008174&t=h&hl=en

 

An interactive campus map is available on their website.

 

Have you ever gone up there and walked around?  Yeah, me neither.  Maybe I should take my camera. 

 

Apparently, they're having a three-phase building campaign called "Faith in the Future".  The total for the projects would be nearly $3 million.

 

I first became aware of this project as I was researching the tearing down of 1803 Josephine St., a home that has been empty and has had a fence around it for quite some time.  This home currently stands just before the bend where Josephine hits Ringgold.  It looks like it's in pretty decent shape:

 

It appears that on this site is going to be a new staff residence and a facilities maintenance building:

 

Anyway, here's the plan.  Apparently they are on Phase II.  Expect more.  They own a ton of lots on Young, Ringgold, Channing, Josephine and even a couple on Carmalt.

 

I'll put the school's website at the end if you want to check it out yourself.

 

Phase I ($1,400,000):

1) Student housing/parking

Addition to Knapp building, parking

 

2) Library fulfillment

Library expansion

 

3) Campus expansion and procurement

The purchase of adjacent property and housing to allow for future expansion

 

4) Faculty housing

Renovation of current homes and the purchase of additional housing

 

 

Phase II ($950,000):

1) New Facilities/Revivalist Press Building ($200,000)

 

2) Relocation and merging of High School and Academy ($150,000)

The two lower floors of the Revivalist Memorial Building

 

3) Relocating college music department ($50,000)

Practice rooms, classrooms and office space

 

4) New Entrance to the campus ($500,000)

Includes new entryway, parking, and renovating the music building to become a welcome center

 

5) Academy Entrance Improvements ($50,000)

Signage and other improvements

 

 

Phase III ($500,000):

1) Chapel expansion/Balcony annex

For special events and lectures

 

http://www.gbs.edu/index.shtml

 

God's Bible continues Mount Auburn expansion

Building Cincinnati, 8/24/07

 

Facilities Building

 

God's Bible School and College, a little-known school centered around Ringgold and Young streets in Mount Auburn, continues to acquire property as part of its $3 million Faith in the Future campaign.

 

The college first began acquiring property around the area to drive out crime and make the area more secure for its students.

 

Two recent purchases were made on Josephine Street, on which the college owns the majority of the properties. Uptown Consortium's Parks and Neighborhood Revitalization Plan envisions the creation of a new gateway for both the college and for Filson Park at the corner of Dorchester and Josephine.

 

Some of the homes on the street will become student housing, either through rehabilitation or infill.

 

Construction of the new Facilities Building at Josephine and Ringgold streets is nearing completion. This building will also house the offices of the Campus Adminstrator.

 

A search of the county auditor's website shows that the college now owns 67 properties in the neighborhood, all of them along Ringgold, Young, Channing, Carmalt and Josephine streets.

 

God's Bible School was established in 1900 and has over 230 students. Seventy percent of students live on their Mount Auburn campus.

 

Visit the God's Bible School and College website

 

WINDOWS LIVE BIRD'S EYE VIEW

GOOGLE AERIAL MAP

 

http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/08/gods-bible-continues-mount-auburn.html

 

They tore down a really sweet house right by the walker st pathway 1-2 years ago.  It had rookwood fireplaces and was in great shape.

Yeah...I worry that the school will remake that entire neighborhood around the campus into a demolition zone.