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Cincinnati began with the settlement of Columbia, Losantiville, and North Bend in the Northwest Territory of the United States beginning in late December 1788. The following year Fort Washington, named for George Washington, was established to protect the settlers.
Dec 28, 2013 · In 1804, the garrison moved to Newport, and Fort Washington was torn down in 1808 to make way for a growing city. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819 and by 1850 had a population of...
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May 8, 2021 · On September 22, 1788, three speculators — John Filson, Colonel Robert Patterson, and Mathias Denman — crossed the Ohio River from Kentucky and onto their 800-acre investment in the...
Jan 5, 2017 · CINCINNATI -- Six men who established three settlements within several months in Hamilton County 228 years ago qualify to be called Cincinnati's Founding Fathers: Benjamin Stites, John...
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Plum Street Temple [photo] 720 Plum St (45202) The Jewish temple at 8th and Plum Streets has been sitting firmly in place for 150 years. Isaac Mayer Wise, the man who shares his namesake with the temple, was a prominent rabbi before the Civil War. Seeing a need to grow his congregation, the lot where the building currently stands was purchased and ...
Shillito's Department Store [photo] 151 W 7th St (45202) John Shillito started his department store business in 1832. By the 1870s, he was ready to expand beyond his 4th Street store. Renowned architect James W. McLaughlin, who designed the old public library and the Art Museum among many others, was contracted to build Shillito's new multi-story d...
The Palace Hotel [photo] 601 Vine St (45202) In 1882, master architect Samuel Hannaford built the Palace Hotel at the northwest corner of 6th and Vine. It featured 300 rooms with a shared bathroom on every floor and myriad modern-at-the-time amenities, including strategically placed hitching posts in the front of the building. To top it all off wit...
Cincinnati's City Hall [photo] 801 Plum St (45202) Samuel Hannaford won a contest for the contract to build the new City Hall on the site of the old one at 8th and Plum Streets in the late 1880s. His plans outlined a Richardsonian Romanesque building of massive proportions featuring ornamentation around the facade and cornered with an iconic 9-stor...
The Union Trust Building [photos] 36 E 4th St (45202) Famed Chicago architect Daniel Burnham came to our city to build Cincinnati's first skyscraper, the neoclassical 19-story Union Savings Building on the northwest corner of 4th and Walnut Streets for the Union Trust Company. J. G. Schmidlapp, a well-known financier of the building project, recoun...
The Union Central Tower [photo] 1 West 4th St (45202) When the former Chamber of Commerce building was demolished, Cass Gilbert, the architect who designed countless buildings across the US including the Woolworth Building in NYC, designed the Union Central Tower on the southwest corner of 4th and Vine for the company of the same name. Garber and W...
The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Building [photo] 139 E 4th St (45202) The first gaslights were lit in 1843 at the corner of 4th and Main Streets by the precursor of what would later become Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company. Their business boomed, consolidating electric companies in the years to come and garnering a good reputation for their services....
The Cincinnati Times-Star Building [photo] 800 Broadway (45202) By the late 1920s, the Times-Star newspaper needed more space than their 6th and Walnut Streets offices offered, so a new Art Deco tower at the corner of 8th and Broadway Streets was planned. Samuel Hannaford & Sons received the commission to design and construct the building. The owne...
The Terrace Plaza Hotel[photo]15 W 6th St (45202) On July 16th, 1948, developer John J. Emery proclaimed the newly opened Terrace Plaza Hotel on the southwest corner of 6th and Vine Streets would never again be closed to the public. Under the direction of architect Louis Skidmore and senior designer Natalie de Blois, the Terrace Plaza Hotel was an ...
The Cincinnati Public Library [photo] 800 Vine St (45202) John W. McLaughlin, who constructed the Shillito's Building from the 1870s, went on to build a gorgeous public library (originally intended to be an opera house by another architect) on Vine Street in 1874. The library was legendary in its beauty and was used by countless Cincinnatians durin...
The history of Cincinnati got going in 1802 when it was formed as a village, later becoming an incorporated city in 1819. Two major events helped to shape the young town's future - the arrival of steam navigation for boats along the Ohio River and the completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in 1827.
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Apr 16, 2018 · The ground that would become Cincinnati was only grudgingly given up by the Shawnee in the 1786 Treaty of Fort Finney, also known as the Treaty at the Mouth of the Great Miami.
