Cincinnati Parks
The train tracks that were in this park became a popular hangout and a canvas for graffiti under the train trestles.
What is Ault Park?
This historic building is home to the Cincinnati Ballet.
What is Music Hall?
This bridge was designed to carry 80,000 vehicles in 1970; today it carries nearly double that and continues to increase!
What is the Brent Spence Bridge?
This famous Cincinnatian served as the 27th President of the United States.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Ghost stories revolve around this gazebo where a murder took place in 1927.
What is the Spring House Gazebo in Eden Park?
Originally owned by a wealthy landowner, Nicholas Longworth, this park was purchased by the city of Cincinnati in 1869
What is Eden Park?
This beautiful land above the Ohio River was originally a vineyard; thus giving it's name.
What is the Garden of Eden?
52 years ago, this famous historic home located at 316 Pike Street downtown was turned into an Art Museum.
What is the Taft Museum of Art?
This famous female singer/musician visited "Summerfair" on her Harley Davidson motorcycle in 1970 at Eden Park.
Who was Janis Joplin?
This city was called "Sin City" around the 1940's due to what reasons?
Newport, Kentucky had a lot of strip clubs, gambling halls, night clubs and mob bosses which included gangsters and a reputation of violence.
This beautiful small park is located in an East Walnut Hills neighborhood and named in honor of Mrs. Ann Wood, the mother-in-law of Judge Timothy Walker.
What is Annwood Park?
This popular event, a hot air balloon glow event, is held around Mirror Lake in Eden Park, and is one of the largest of its kind in the whole country.
What is Balluminaria?
This famous landmark erected in 1852, is was one of the first markets in the U.S. to use iron frame construction technology.
What is Findlay Market?
This neighborhood was home to the Shawnee and Miami Indians before this man began to develop it into an industrialized neighborhood (2 parts to the answer).
What is Price Hill and who is General Rees E. Price?
In 1794, it was said that 2 men were killed at the beginning of the creek at St. Bernard by Native Americans, which created the name for this location.
What is Bloody Run Boulevard?
This Park was designed by Landscape Architect Adolph Strauch.
What is Eden Park?
Famous movies have been filmed here; including Rain Man with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, and The Ides of March, a George Clooney film.
What is Newport, Kentucky?
This beautiful landmark, built in Gothic Revival style, is home to the largest swinging bells used in the U.S., nicknamed "Big Joe."
What is Saint Francis De Sales Church?
This local street was named after a famous Cincinnatian who was known to get stuck in his bathtub due to being so overweight!
Who/what is William Howard Taft?
This Cincinnati man was convicted for running an illegal alcohol distribution and served a 2-year prison sentence from 1925-1927.
Who was George Remus?
Located in Eden Park, this landmark built in 1933 showcases more than 3,500 plant species from around the world as well as Butterfly exhibits and seasonal botanical displays.
What is the Krohn Conservatory?
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this landmark offers exhibits, kid's activities, classes and houses a unique theatre with surround sound, enormous movie screen and a tall seating aspect ratio.
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What is Union Terminal (Museum Center) and IMAX theatre?
This beautiful Art Deco building was 22 distinct buildings created into one, and was set to hold 17,000 passengers and 216 trains when completed in 1933.
What is Union Terminal?
What is it called today?
Who is Cincinnati named after and when was it founded?
Cincinnati is named after the Ancient Roman Hero Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a hero of the Roman Republic (519 BC).
Claims of paranormal activity have occured at this famous Cincinnati landmark, making it one of the most haunted places in America. This could be accredited to the fact that what?
What is the name of this landmark?
It was built over a cemetery (Pauper's Cemetary).
Music Hall