Pictures & Postcards of Hamilton County
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| Ault Park | Burnet Woods | Burnet Woods | Burnet Woods |
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| Eden
Park Elsinore Entrance ~ 1906 |
Eden Park Reservoir | Eden
Park Green Houses and Water Tower |
Eden
Park View of the Ohio River ~ 1907 |
| Elsinore Tower, located at Gilbert Avenue and Elsinore Place, erected in 1883, was designed by Samuel Hannaford to commemorate a Shakespeare Festival being held in Cincinnati at the same time. It now serves as a valve house for the Cincinnati Water Works. | Remnants of the reservoir structure you see in the picture can still be seen in the Park today - it is located roughly between Krohn Conservatory in the park and the Cincinnati Art Club. | These greenhouses were built in 1902. The present greenhouse on the same site is known as the Krohn Conservatory and was built in 1933. | |
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| Eden Park ~ 1911 |
Eden
Park Lake and Hothouse ~ 1911 |
Eden Park Arch Bridge and Driveway ~ 1910 |
Eden Park Archway |
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| Garfield Park/Piatt Park |
Lincoln Park |
Lytle Park ~ Lincoln Statue |
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Cincinnati's first park, .84 acres at Eighth Street between Vine and
Elm,was given to the city by brothers John M. and Benjamin M. Piatt in
1817 "for a market space." In 1868, the park was dedicated as Eight
Street Park, and later became known for a period as Garfield Park,
because of the statue of James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the
United States, which stands in the park area. Another memorial in the
park is the Harrison Equestrian Statue, commemorating the President
from Ohio, Indian fighter, Northwest Territory governor, and "Mr
Cincinnati" himself. The official name of the Piatt Park was adopted by
the Board of Park Commissioners in 1940. The Garfield Statue was
executed by the Cincinnati sculptor, Charles H. Niehaus, and the
Harrison Statue was executed by Louis T. Robins. |
Lytle Park is in downtown Cincinnati - right across from the
old Taft home now the Taft Museum. |
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| Washington Park ca. 1908 | |||
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