Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
Model Drug Store Walnut Hills Branch: what professional success looked like Model Drug Stores, the largest chain of Black-owned pharmacies in Cincinnati during the 1910s Continue Reading
Cincinnati came to see itself during the period of Reconstruction as a leading cultural center in what was then called the West. This artistic renaissance Continue Reading
Fourth graders from Frederick Douglass School and the Spencer Center have a combined history club. The Douglass kids stay after school; always start with a Continue Reading
Model Home by Schmidlapp Jacob Schmidlapp talked some of his friends into joining him in financing a half-million-dollar joint stock company called the Cincinnati Model Continue Reading
The Washington Terrace Apartment Complex built by Jacob Schmidlapp’s Model Homes Company west of Gilbert and south of Blair was built on vacant land that Continue Reading
Jacob Schmidlapp (see a recent low-cost housing post) continued his mission to produce affordable, decent housing in Walnut Hills from 1911 until his death in Continue Reading
Cincinnati allocated $15,000 in 1906 to produce a master plan for parks and parkways. The planning culminated the very next year in a sumptuous volume Continue Reading
Jacob Schmidlapp moved from his native Piqua, Ohio, to Memphis, Tennessee shortly after the civil war, where he went in to the tobacco and cigar Continue Reading