Description: Reverse reads: "Art Museum Eden Park Cin Ohio" The Cincinnati Art Museum is located at 953 Eden Park Drive, in Eden Park. In 1880, Charles W. West of Cincinnati donated 150, 000 dollars to the Cincinnati Museum Association to establish an art museum in the city. In 1886, the Cincinnati Art Museum opened, and became one of the leading art museums in the United States. The Romanesque Revival style building was designed by James W. McLaughlin. In 1881, the Cincinnati Museum Association convinced the McMicken School of Drawing and Design to relocate to the Cincinnati Art Museum. McMicken College later became the University of Cincinnati. The college agreed to turn over all operations of The School of Drawing and Design to the Cincinnati Museum Association. The school became known as the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Established in 1887, the academy has trained artists for more than a century. In 1998, the Art Academy of Cincinnati legally separated from the museum and became an independent college of art and design and has since moved to another location. By the early twenty-first century, the Cincinnati Art Museum contained works of art spanning more than five thousand years. Its holdings include works by Picasso, Matisse, and El Greco. The museum also owns a number of works by Frank Duveneck and other local artists. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_002_001
Subjects: Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cincinnati (Ohio). Art Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The old water tower, a well-known landmark in Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. Concrete bridge in foreground is reputed to be the first of its kind constructed in this country. June 10, 1937." The Eden Park Stand Pipe is located in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio. The brick structure has a cylindrical water tank with a taller octagonal turret attached, was built in 1894 and is 172 feet high. The castle shaped water tower was designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons in the Romanesque Revival style and is now used by the city as a communications facility. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F09_010_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Ohio. Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works. & Recreation, Division of; Parks--Ohio; Water towers--Ohio; Stand-pipes; Cincinnati (Ohio). Water Works; Concrete bridges--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "This interior view of the Conservatory in Eden Park shows the palm house, forty-five feet in height, with the waterfall around which many varieties of tropical palms and vines have been cultivated in imitation of an equatorial forest." Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. Conservatory Eden Park’s first greenhouses, built in the 1880s, were used strictly for growing plants. In 1902, a new greenhouse designed for public displays was opened. The following year, the display greenhouse held a chrysanthemum show, and the Park Board decided to maintain a consistent change of plants and flowers to keep displays new and attractive to visitors. As a result, more than 300,000 people visited the greenhouse in its first two years. In 1930, the Park Board decided to replace its old greenhouse buildings with a modern plant conservatory. The new building was designed in the Art Deco style, the leading design movement of the 1920s & ‘30s, and was built of aluminum and glass. The Eden Park Conservatory opened to the general public on Sunday, March 26, 1933. December of that year, the Conservatory began a holiday tradition of exhibiting its Educational Christmas Tree, decorated with ornaments made of natural materials and crafted by Conservatory horticulturists. On April 30, 1937, the Board officially named the new conservatory the Irwin M. Krohn Conservatory, in honor of Irwin Krohn's 25 years of service on the Board of Park Commissioners. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F09_019_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Ohio. Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works. & Recreation, Division of; Parks--Ohio; Botanical gardens--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Ohio River Obelisk Monument. Eden Park. Cin. O.." Also known as just the Ohio River Monument or the Navigation Monument, the thirty foot high gray granite memorial was dedicated in 1929 by President Herbert Hoover, to commemorate the completion of the canal system in the Ohio River that connected Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois. Bronze plaques on each of its four sides tell the story of the canal and list the leaders of Ohio Valley Improvement Association. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F06_006_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Monuments--Ohio; Obelisks; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1935-1939, this photograph shows the construction of a comfort station in Alms Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in Hamilton County. The photograph's caption reads "District #16. Project #16-31-747. Construction of comfort stations in Alms Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. Project started November 12, 1935, employs an average of sixteen men, and will cost a total of $16,119, of which the W.P.A. is furnishing $7,018. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No. 1. (Writers') 6-22-36." The Frederick H. Alms Memorial Park is located at 710 Tusculum Avenue on Mount Tusculum, in Cincinnati, Ohio, overlooking the Ohio River. The park was given to the Park Board by Frederick Alms' wife in 1916. Alms was born in Cincinnati on February 26, 1839 and died July 25, 1898. A former solider and successful businessman, Alms is best remembered as an extraordinarily generous philanthropist. He married Eleanora C. Unzicker on November 9, 1870. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_001_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Alms, Fred H.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "an inside view of the ? growth to be found in the Conservatory the year round. Eden Park, Cincinnati. Ohio." Eden Park's first greenhouses, built in the 1880s, were used strictly for growing plants. In 1902, a new greenhouse designed for public displays was opened. The following year, the display greenhouse held a chrysanthemum show, and the Park Board decided to maintain a consistent change of plants and flowers to keep displays new and attractive to visitors. As a result, more than 300, 000 people visited the greenhouse in its first two years. In 1930, the Park Board decided to replace its old greenhouse buildings with a modern plant conservatory. The new building was designed in the Art Deco style, the leading design movement of the 1920s & ‘30s, and was built of aluminum and glass. The Eden Park Conservatory opened to the general public on Sunday, March 26, 1933. December of that year, the Conservatory began a holiday tradition of exhibiting its Educational Christmas Tree, decorated with ornaments made of natural materials and crafted by Conservatory horticulturists. On April 30, 1937, the Board officially named the new conservatory the Irwin M. Krohn Conservatory, in honor of Irwin Krohn's 25 years of service on the Board of Park Commissioners. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F06_006_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Botanical gardens--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937. Eden Park, Art Museum from Elsinore Tower" Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. Elsinore Arch The Elsinore Arch (sometimes called Elsinore Castle, or Elsinore Tower) is an impressive stone entrance to Eden Park, with steep stairs leading to the Cincinnati Museum of Art. It was designed by Charles B. Hannaford in 1883 as a result of the Kronborg Castle backdrop for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” at Music Hall. It was not only intended as an impressive entrance, but also a means for the Cincinnati Water Works to extend the water main supply tunnel, which started at a reservoir in Eden Park. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_004_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio). Water Works; Cincinnati (Ohio). Art Museum; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Bridge in Eden Park and Tower Cincinnati Ohio" Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. This bridge and tower still stand in Eden Park. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F06_019_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio);
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Elsinore Tower, Eden Park, Cincinnati" Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. Elsinore Arch The Elsinore Arch (sometimes called Elsinore Castle, or Elsinore Tower) is an impressive stone entrance to Eden Park, with steep stairs leading to the Cincinnati Museum of Art. It was designed by Charles B. Hannaford in 1883 as a result of the Kronborg Castle backdrop for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” at Music Hall. It was not only intended as an impressive entrance, but also a means for the Cincinnati Water Works to extend the water main supply tunnel, which started at a reservoir in Eden Park. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_009_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio). Water Works; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Bridge over Driveway in Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio" Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_011_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Concrete bridges--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Flap attached to reverse reads: "EDEN PARK CONSERVATORY A view of the conservatory from one of numerous drives in park. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project #1 (Writers') Eden Park's first greenhouses, built in the 1880s, were used strictly for growing plants. In 1902, a new greenhouse designed for public displays was opened. The following year, the display greenhouse held a chrysanthemum show, and the Park Board decided to maintain a consistent change of plants and flowers to keep displays new and attractive to visitors. As a result, more than 300, 000 people visited the greenhouse in its first two years. In 1930, the Park Board decided to replace its old greenhouse buildings with a modern plant conservatory. The new building was designed in the Art Deco style, the leading design movement of the 1920s & ‘30s, and was built of aluminum and glass. The Eden Park Conservatory opened to the general public on Sunday, March 26, 1933. December of that year, the Conservatory began a holiday tradition of exhibiting its Educational Christmas Tree, decorated with ornaments made of natural materials and crafted by Conservatory horticulturists. On April 30, 1937, the Board officially named the new conservatory the Irwin M. Krohn Conservatory, in honor of Irwin Krohn's 25 years of service on the Board of Park Commissioners. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F06_010_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Botanical gardens--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "The old water tower, a well-known landmark in Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. Concrete bridge in foreground is reputed to be the first of its kind in this country. Photo by Federal Writers' Photographer, District #12. June 10, 1937 The Eden Park Stand Pipe is located in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio. The brick structure has a cylindrical water tank with a taller octagonal turret attached, was built in 1894 and is 172 feet high. The castle shaped water tower was designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons in the Romanesque Revival style and is now used by the city as a communications facility. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_015_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Water towers--Ohio; Stand-pipes; Cincinnati (Ohio). Water Works; Concrete bridges--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)