Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
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
Horace Sudduth founded the Industrial Building and Loan Corporation in December 1919. Its main office was in Sudduth’s West End real estate office, but from Continue Reading
When Horace Sudduth began working in the Walnut Hills market, he played much the same role dealing in and managing tenements as he had downtown. Continue Reading
In the previous post we looked at Horace Sudduth’s business dealings in the West End during the 1910’s. We also noted that the Lincoln Theater, Continue Reading
When Horace and Melvina Sudduth moved to Cincinnati in 1910, they settled in the West End downtown. The last of the wealthy neighborhoods in the Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth (1888-1957) was the wealthiest African American of his generation in Cincinnati, and its most influential Black businessperson. Like the nineteenth century Black coal Continue Reading
On the railroads, as on the steamboats, Black men would come to serve important roles in passenger service. Palace cars, first class accommodations owned by Continue Reading
Black home buyers struggled against two great restrictions in the 1910s through the 1950s. The first was an increasingly hostile attitude in white neighborhoods toward Continue Reading
We saw in an earlier post that a number of African American men, and one woman, living on Lincoln Avenue in 1870, worked on steamboats. Continue Reading
At our November, 2020, virtual meeting, Geoff Sutton presented research on how Cincinnati and Walnut Hills responded to the Great Migration. This research grew out Continue Reading