Trollope's Bazaar photograph   Save
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Description: Fanny Trollope, wife of the Victorian writer Anthony Trollope, herself having written glowing depictions of an American utopia in Tennessee, set off up the Mississippi in 1827. Finding the South not to be a utopia, she settled in Cincinnati with her children's drawing instructor, and built Trollope's Bazaar, a combination lecture hall, craft market and concert venue in faux-Egyptian decor. The venture ended in bankruptcy. Mrs. Trollope next wrote a best-selling invective against American coarseness. The building itself, known as Trollope's Folly, was destroyed in 1881. Reverse reads: "Bazaar building or Trollope's Folly, 3rd at West of Broadway; in the eighteen-thirties. Cincinnati. Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_002
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc ; Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)