Savoy Place, Avondale, Cincinnati, OH
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.
Savoy Place, Avondale, Cincinnati, OH
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.