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
Tag: Culture
Louis Rebisso and Very Large Men on Even Larger Horses
We have met the Italian-born sculptor Louis Rebisso, who lived on Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills, in the context of his first major public work 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
Jennie Jackson DeHart and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Jennie Jackson sang in the original Fish Jubilee Singers beginning in 1871. In 1885 she married the Nashville preacher Andrew J. DeHart, and the couple Continue Reading
Cincinnati’s First Carnegie Branch Library
24 May 2019 The Building From the late-1800s, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH) was beginning to search for solutions to their Continue Reading
Kathryne Gardette
Kathryne Gardette is well known in Walnut Hills as a business woman, investor, advocate, booster, and — yes! — even match-maker. The Miller-Gardette building on Continue Reading
Eden Park after Reconstruction: Presidents, Politics and Forestry
The 1882 Arbor Day celebration intersected with other history around the end of Reconstruction. It was as much an occasion for forgetting as for remembering Continue Reading
Baldwin Piano
D.H. Baldwin, a music teacher in Cincinnati, began selling pianos in about 1862; his stock included Chickering and Steinway products. In 1865, he hired a Continue Reading
Frances Jones Poetker
Frances Jones Poetker, of “Jones the Florist,” was born in Walnut Hills in 1913. The family had moved the floral business from Northern Kentucky to Continue Reading
Mary Emery
Mary Emery, one of the founders of what became Children’s Hospital, moved with her husband into a mansion they built in Walnut Hills in 1881. Continue Reading