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Demolishing Myer's Lonsdale Street store, looking east into the city block - the building is being gutted so a new shopping centre can be built in the middle.
This brick rowhouse on Savoy Place in Cincinnati's Avondale neighborhood was once surrounded by wood-frame houses in the vernacular Italianate and Second Empire styles, all of which except one have now been demolished. The rowhouse's time appears to be running out, as it is vacant and boarded up, as the neighborhood is being bought out in order to make way for a future mega-block redevelopment as part of the Uptown Innovation Corridor plan. The neighborhood, which was isolated by the reconstruction of Martin Luther King Drive, is quickly disappearing, and may become the future site of a new NIOSH research facility, and is not protected at all under historic designation despite having a collection of homes that had been remarkably intact, well-kept, and eligible. The loss of the neighborhood is a loss for the low-to-moderate income residents that once called it home and a loss for the residents of Avondale, who haven't seen much benefit from the large-scale developments in their neighborhood, no matter how much John Cranley or any of the political elites of the city try to make it sound that way.
These homes are being cleared for the expansion of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital across the street, which will disrupt the lives of those who live in the Avondale neighborhood. These homes were largely constructed in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, when Avondale was one of the choice neighborhoods for the city's middle class and rich. However, demographic shifts have seen many of these houses become low-income housing, and despite investment in the major institutions in the neighborhood, the residents have seen little change in their situation. The loss of the architectural heritage, along with the lack of mitigation measures for local residents, make the current situation a mess and something that needs to be changed, but there remain doubts that will happen. I have hope, however, that Avondale can be reinvigorated whilst preserving the historic buildings in the neighborhood and improving the lives of the residents in a meaningful, measurable, and noticeable way.
In this photo I wanted to capture the contrast between seeing what used to be there, looking at the mud and what is there now, the buildings that have been built onto of it. I didn't do a lot of editing on this one but I think that it turned out well, although out of all my photos I think that it was not the strongest in connecting to my theme of passing by.
Another building (in the distance) being demolished and no doubt a new one built. I cant understand why this happens so much. Just use the origanal old one that was there!
This is a demolished house that once sat on Hyatts Road, the east neighbor to the John Steitz home. This house was built sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The house was occupied until August 2012 and demolished in February 2013. The overgrown garage strangely still stands.
Don't have an address for this on but it was demolished for a new retail strip. In the background is the sign for what used to be Just brakes it is now Rusty Taco
This brick rowhouse on Savoy Place in Cincinnati's Avondale neighborhood was once surrounded by wood-frame houses in the vernacular Italianate and Second Empire styles, all of which except one have now been demolished. The rowhouse's time appears to be running out, as it is vacant and boarded up, as the neighborhood is being bought out in order to make way for a future mega-block redevelopment as part of the Uptown Innovation Corridor plan. The neighborhood, which was isolated by the reconstruction of Martin Luther King Drive, is quickly disappearing, and may become the future site of a new NIOSH research facility, and is not protected at all under historic designation despite having a collection of homes that had been remarkably intact, well-kept, and eligible. The loss of the neighborhood is a loss for the low-to-moderate income residents that once called it home and a loss for the residents of Avondale, who haven't seen much benefit from the large-scale developments in their neighborhood, no matter how much John Cranley or any of the political elites of the city try to make it sound that way.
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Upon receiving a tip from a friend about a city-ordered demolition of an historic Italianate apartment building on W Liberty Street in the city's West End, I decided to go out and investigate. This demolition beggars belief, it is both irrational and short-sighted, as so many buildings in a similar neglected and abandoned state throughout surrounding neighborhoods, some mere blocks away, have been renovated and are now highly desirable and vibrant places, but this building will become yet another vacant lot, a victim of the city's deaf, dumb, and blind policy of wholesale demolition of any structure that has been neglected, regardless of potential future or historical value. However, it did appear that there had recently been a fire on the first floor, but buildings in far rougher shape with far more interior damage have survived and been restored. This Italianate-style three-and-a-half story building was constructed as apartments in the 1870s, and originally housed the city's then-large German immigrant population. It survived urban renewal and the widening of Liberty Street, only to become neglected by a slumlord (whom are well-protected by the politicians in the city), and then abandoned, finally having the city put out an order for its demolition. It's disgraceful that in this day and age and the lessons we should have learned from the mistakes this city has made, that we are still throwing all of our heritage and history into the landfill.