Fisk Jubilee Singers, October 6, 1871
Today marks the 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ first tour. On October 6, 1871, a musical group comprised of students from Fisk University, Continue Reading
Category: Culture
Louis Rebisso and the Modeling Arts in Walnut Hills
In about 1874, not long after Walnut Hills sculptor Louis Rebisso had arrived in Cincinnati in 1870, he joined the faculty of the McMicken School Continue Reading
Douglass School, High Culture, and American Performing Art
In 1916, the (white) Cincinnati Commercial Tribune newspaper reviewed a “splendid” musical performance by the Douglass Choral Society. The reviewer observed that the group presented Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue Sculptor: Louis Rebisso
Louis T. Rebisso lived on Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills for practically all this working life as a sculptor and as a teacher at the Continue Reading
Fountain Lewis Sr.
In the previous post we met the Black barber Fountain Lewis, Sr. who was active in Cincinnati for more than half a century from the Continue Reading
Fountain Lewis Sr., barbering and Music Hall.
The Friends of Music Hall posted a wonderful blog entry on Fountain Lewis, Sr., a Black barber active in Cincinnati from the early 1840s until Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue in the 1870’s and 1880’s
From early in Walnut Hills history, Lincoln Avenue was at the heart of a vibrant, diverse community. Using the 1870 and 1880 census along with Continue Reading
Construction During Reconstruction: Eden Park Band Stand
Cincinnati came to see itself during the period of Reconstruction as a leading cultural center in what was then called the West. This artistic renaissance Continue Reading
Glimpses of Jazz in Walnut Hills: Hotel Alms
The “new” Alms Hotel in 1925, with its 400-car enclosed parking garage, and its orientation toward the planned Victory Parkway, embraced the full integration of Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass School Library 1911
Since the nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Public Library provided service in the district’s school buildings. Douglass was no different; it housed a small library for Continue Reading