The 2012 Bockfest Parade in Photos via the OTR blog:
Bockfest kicked off yesterday with as much fanfare as ever…
via the OTR blog:
Over-the-Rhine is staking its claim as Cincinnati’s restaurant mecca with a variety of high quality dining experiences. The long waits just to be seated at these establishments tell the story. OTR is in high demand. Wine Me, Dine Me has the scoop on Cincinnati Magazine‘s Top Ten restaurants of 2012 as well as Best New restaurants…
I have a crush on over-the-rhine, all the moms in the world tell me not to go there but I still get to stare at it out the window of the bus
whereintheworldisinterestingguy:
Cincinnati, Ohio
- Cincinnati was founded in 1788 by John Cleves Symmes and Colonel Robert Patterson.
- The first major inland city in the country, it is sometimes thought of as the first purely American city.
- Cincinnati is home to two major sports teams, the Cincinnati Reds and the Cincinnati Bengals, and it sponsors annual events such as the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament, the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival, and the Thanksgiving Day race.
- Cincinnati is known for its large collection of historic architecture. Over-the-Rhine, a neighborhood just to the north of Downtown Cincinnati, boasts among the world’s largest collections of Italianate architecture, rivaling similar neighborhoods in New York City,Vienna and Munich in size and scope.
From Wikipedia:
Over-the-Rhine has been praised for its collection of historic architecture. The New York Times described the neighborhood as having “a scale and grace reminiscent of Greenwich Village in New York.” Most of Over-the-Rhine’s ornate brick buildings were built by German immigrants from 1865 to the 1880s
Over the Rhine - This Place Matters (by xoxopr0ud)
Vote for OTR in the This Place Matters national competition. First place is $25,000 dollars!
http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.
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When I visited Cincinnati last week, I marveled at the condo buildings, chic little boutiques, art galleries and gourmet gastropubs that have sprung up in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood during the past few years. This Cincinnati Enquirer slideshow chronicling that neighborhood’s evolution in the ten years following the Cincinnati Riots reveals just how much Over-the-Rhine — and the city itself — has changed.
