Mt. Adams Incline photograph   Save
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Description: Reverse reads: "View of Cincinnati taken from top of Mt. Adams incline looking West." Mount Adams Incline, extending from Lock St. to Rookwood Pl. and Celestial St., was the more important of the two local inclines. The inclines comprised two stilted, cable-drawn platforms that raised wagons and pedestrians, and later the Zoo-Eden Streetcars and automobiles 268 feet from Lock Street to the hilltop on an inclined track 945 feet long. The understructure, over house tops and streets, is made of stout lumber and had a track gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches. The funicular railway, completed in 1875, was closed in 1948, and I-471 now runs through the location at the base of the hill. The large square building in center middle ground was once home to the United States Printing Co. In the near distance is the Pugh Building, a textiles factory. Pugh Building text reads, in part: "Varsity-Town Clothes tailored by the H.A. Seinsheimer Co.; Fechheimer's Uniforms; the Hamilton Tailoring Co.; Weldman-Schild Inc." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_013
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Funicular railroads; Inclined planes
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)