Hopkins Street, West End, Cincinnati, OH : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hopkins Street, West End, Cincinnati, OH / w_lemay
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | These two old buildings in Cincinnati's Betts-Longworth Historic District have survived the wholesale demolition of the West End in the 1960s, and are examples that were typical of the thousands of structures demolished for urban renewal as early as the 1930s in the neighborhood. Constructed in the late 19th Century, these two homes retain much of their historic craftsmanship, charm, and beauty, with the one on the left featuring ornate woodwork and brickwork (though missing its Italianate cornice, a unfortunately common feature of many restored buildings in the West End and Over-the-Rhine), while the building on the right features an ornately detailed stone facade, intact cornice, and service Alley that is accessed via a small archway. The building next to these two wasn't so lucky, however, having been cleared sometime during the neighborhood's decline, along with a large structure housing the Queen City Vocational Center blocking off the end of the street in the late 20th Century. Today, these buildings serve as an example as to why large-scale clearance of the West End was a big mistake, but the city hasn't learned its lesson, opting to demolish a large part of Camp Washington in the 1990s for the widening of Hopple Street, and South Fairmount in the past few years for the Lick Run project. These projects are short-term and short-sighted, and will hurt those neighborhoods as the inner city becomes nicer, as they will not have the amount of historic buildings available that some other neighborhoods do, putting them at a steep disadvantage and making them like the parts of the West End that went through urban renewal, rather than the Betts-Longworth District, which is desirable and has a largely intact set of historic buildings anchoring it. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-02-18 16:12:18 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 地図 |