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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

1900 Census

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

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