1900 Census: Mapping our Neighborhood
Using both Google Maps and Google Earth, we have been able to visually display the census data from 1900. Google Maps shows each dwelling, color Continue Reading
Category: Housing
1900 Census: Research, Maps and Insights
For the past few years, the college-level course on African-American History at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts has been dedicating time to Continue Reading
Historical marker, Horace Sudduth and the Manse Hotel
Manse Hotel and Annex Walnut Hills has been home to a significant middle- and working-class Black community since the 1850s.[i] In 1931, African American entrepreneur Continue Reading
The Manse Hotel: a rambling prehistory of a rambling building
The one-time Manse Hotel building at 1004 Chapel Street, originally a cruciform (cross shaped) frame (wood) home constructed in about 1876, was the first house Continue Reading
Home Laundry Rooms: The disruption of washerwomen as independent businesspeople
Most African American women in Walnut Hills took in laundry during the Reconstruction era, roughly 1865-1880. The work was punishing, but the washerwoman was her Continue Reading
Irene Kirke, Black O’Bryonville Woman in Business from the 1910s
Irene Kirke, an African American woman, was born in 1887 in what was then the small town of Milford, outside of Cincinnati. She attended public 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
Horace Sudduth: Businessman, Philanthropist, WH Resident
Horace Sudduth (1888-1957) was one of the most influential businessmen in Cincinnati. His work in real estate — both in the West End and in Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth and Women’s Institutions
We have explored Horace Sudduth’s support for the African American YMCA that opened on Ninth Street in 1916. This post will look at a series Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth and Real Estate as Investment and Wealth in the Black Community
We have seen in the previous posts that Horace Sudduth served as his community’s Real Estate agent, selling hundreds of homes to Black owner-occupants. Sudduth’s Continue Reading