CINCINNATI 



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CINCINNATI 



Parks, Boulevards and Squares. The streets 

 and avenues of Cincinnati average sixty-six 

 feet in width and cross each other at right 

 angles in the old portion of the city. As 

 they approach the higher sections they become 

 more irregular and conform to surface condi- 



METROPOLITAN DISTRICT MAP 



1. Green 4. Newport 



2. Delhi 5. Columbia 



3. Covington 6. Mill Creek 



tions. Of the seventy-seven parks, whose com- 

 bined area is 2,500 acres, Eden Park (210 acres) 

 on Mount Adams is the largest. It contains 

 the Art Museum and Art School and the two 

 main city reservoirs, which appear as two 

 beautiful lakes; its imposing entrance, Elsinore 

 Gateway, is the reproduction of a medieval 

 structure. Burnet Woods (160 acres) includes 

 the grounds of the University of Cincinnati. 

 Ault Park, Blackly Farm and Mount Airy 

 Forest are among the other recreation grounds, 

 and besides these there are twenty-four well- 

 equipped playgrounds and a fine baseball park. 



The Zoological Garden comprises sixty acres 

 of natural hills, dales and ravines, and contains 

 a great variety and a large number of animals. 

 Spring Grove, the most noteworthy of the 

 city's twenty-six cemeteries, covers 600 acres 

 and is approached by an avenue 100 feet wide. 

 Tyler-Davidson Fountain on Fountain Square 

 is the city's most conspicuous ornament. It 

 was cast at the Royal Bronze Foundry in 

 Bavaria and cost over $200,000. Fountain 

 Square is the meeting point for more than 

 fifty street- and interurban-railway lines. The 

 statues of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Har- 

 rison and James A. Garfield, former Presidents 

 of the United States, and the Fort Washington 

 Monument are also works of artistic merit. 



Buildings. Most imposing of all the city's 

 fine, substantial buildings is the United States 

 Government Building, which was erected in 

 1880 at a cost of $6,000,000. The county 

 courthouse, with the jail, occupies a square; 

 the city hall, completed at a cost exceeding 



$1,000,000; the old and new city hospitals; city 

 workhouse ; Masonic and Odd Fellows' temples ; 

 the Central Union Depot; the Hughes High 

 School; the buildings of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati and the new Memorial Hall are all 

 noteworthy. The Union Central Life Insur- 

 ance Building, in which the Chamber of Com- 

 merce has its home, is a thirty-four story 

 structure and is the tallest building in the 

 United States between New York and Seattle, 

 Wash. It is shown in the illustration heading 

 this article. The city also has a number of 

 fine bank buildings, and several office buildings 

 of the "skyscraper" class. 



The most prominent religious building is 

 Saint Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral, an 

 immense structure with a stone spire 224 feet 

 high; Murillo's original Saint Peter Delivered 

 is its altarpiece. Saint Francis de Sales, Saint 

 Paul's Methodist Episcopal, Saint Paul's Prot- 

 estant Episcopal, First Presbyterian and Sec- 

 ond Presbyterian churches and the Jewish Syn- 

 agogue are' structures of unusual architectural 

 beauty. Of the city's twenty-four hotels the 

 Sinton, Gibson (rebuilt in 1914), Lackman and 

 Metropole are perhaps the most widely known. 

 The Music Hall, also used as an exposition 

 building, has a seating capacity of 5,400, and 

 its organ is one of the largest in the United 

 States. 



Institutions. The public school system of 

 Cincinnati offers opportunities for higher edu- 

 cation through its capstone institution, the 

 University of Cincinnati (an outgrowth of Mc- 

 Micken University), the only university in the 

 United States conducted as part of the public 

 school system; it has law, medical, dental and 

 cooperative engineering departments and an 

 observatory at Mount Lookout (see CINCIN- 

 NATI, UNIVERSITY OF). There are six high 

 schools, a school for deaf mutes, several scores 

 of parochial schools, Saint Joseph's and Saint 

 Xavier's colleges, Lane Theological Seminary, 

 Ohio Mechanics' Institute, six Roman Catholic 

 schools for young ladies, Hebrew Union College 

 (the principal one in the United States for the 

 education of rabbis), commercial colleges, con- 

 servatories of music and a fine public library 

 containing 300,000 volumes. The city has more 

 than fifty benevolent institutions and associa- 

 tions, including Saint Mary's, Good Samaritan, 

 Jewish, United States Marine and the city hos- 

 pitals, Longview Asylum, Ohio Hospital for 

 women and children, homes for the aged, the 

 friendless and the infirm, and asylums for 

 orphans. 



