Oral History
Walnut Hills has many people who grew up in the neighborhood — some having lived here all their lives. Others moved to the area as Continue Reading
Tag: Buildings
Frederick Douglass School Building 1911
The Elm Street School for Colored Children had been built in 1872, when Cincinnati annexed Walnut Hills north of McMillan Street. The Arnett law of 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
Women’s History Facts – Edgecliff College
In 1935, the Sisters of Mercy opened Our Lady of Cincinnati College to commuting students in the leased Walnut Hills Edgecliffe estate, formerly the home Continue Reading
Children’s Hospital founders
In 1883, three Episcopalian women determined to open a new hospital in Cincinnati to care for sick children. The idea originated with a Mrs. Robert Continue Reading
Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
African American Cincinnatians fared better than their sisters and brothers in the South during the years of Jim Crow beginning in the 1880’s, but even Continue Reading