Description: Reverse reads: "College of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio." The photograph shows the front entrance and iron gates for the dormitory at Cincinnati's College of Music. The College of Music opened in 1878, with classes for 500 day and evening students being held in Dexter Hall, adjacent to Music Hall. Theodore Thomas was the first director, and he recruited very talented people from around the world to come and teach. In 1884, the College moved into its' first permanent building, The Odeon, which had a 1500 seat theater and a pipe organ. Throughout the 1880 and 1890's as the College and it's reputation grew, more buildings were built. The College of Music established a fruitful relationship both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and separately with the University of Cincinnati, during the 1900s. During the 1930s, they had the first collegiate broadcast department in the country, with the opening of its' Radio Extension of the College of Music. The College of Music and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music merged in 1955 due to declining enrollment at both schools and renamed the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music. This new school became the fourteen college at the University of Cincinnati in 1962, and a new complex was built on UC's campus (completed in 1972). CCM flourished as part of the university, and by 1999 renovations were undertaken and the CCM Village built. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F14_014_1
Subjects: Dormitories--United States; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; College of Music of Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "College of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio." The photograph shows the front entrance and iron gates for the dormitory at Cincinnati's College of Music. The College of Music opened in 1878, with classes for 500 day and evening students being held in Dexter Hall, adjacent to Music Hall. Theodore Thomas was the first director, and he recruited very talented people from around the world to come and teach. In 1884, the College moved into its' first permanent building, The Odeon, which had a 1500 seat theater and a pipe organ. Throughout the 1880 and 1890's as the College and it's reputation grew, more buildings were built. The College of Music established a fruitful relationship both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and separately with the University of Cincinnati, during the 1900s. During the 1930s, they had the first collegiate broadcast department in the country, with the opening of its' Radio Extension of the College of Music. The College of Music and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music merged in 1955 due to declining enrollment at both schools and renamed the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music. This new school became the fourteen college at the University of Cincinnati in 1962, and a new complex was built on UC's campus (completed in 1972). CCM flourished as part of the university, and by 1999 renovations were undertaken and the CCM Village built. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_012_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Dormitories--United States; College of Music of Cincinnati; Schools--Ohio; Music; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cinci., O., 1937. Stadium, Univ. of Cinci." This photograph show the south end of Nippert Stadium, with Schmidlapp Hall behind. Nippert Stadium was completed in 1924 as a memorial to James Gamble Nippert, a law student at the University of Cincinnati who died in 1923 as a result blood poisoning from a spike wound received during a football contest. His grandfather, James H. Gamble, a soap manufacturer donated $250,000, as a memorial, to help complete the 12,000 seat stadium. Home of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team, has undergone multiple expansions and renovations through the years. The first was a W.P.A. sponsored seating capacity expansion in 1936, which lowered Carson Field 12 feet and doubled the stadium’s original capacity, now seating 24,000. Renovations again took place in 1954, adding the Reed Shank Pavillon and raising capacity to 28,000. More renovations were completed from 1989 to 1992 which expanded the stadium’s capacity to 35,000. Schmidlapp Hall was completed in 1910 at a cost of $97,000 by architects Tietig Lee and Garber & Woodward. It was the university’s gymnasium, home of UC’s Bearcats basketball team, and athletic facility as well as housing the University of Cincinnati ROTC unit for a time. In 1995 it was renamed the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center (DVAC) and is the center of nearly all choral and vocal activity for the university’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) with many studios and rehearsal rooms View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F04_03_01
Subjects: University of Cincinnati; Education; Universities and colleges; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; College campuses--Ohio; University of Cincinnati. Bearcats (Football team); Football stadiums--Ohio; University of Cincinnati--Buildings--Pictorial works; University of Cincinnati. Bearcat
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)