Walking Cincinnati. Danny Korman

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points in the city. From here, go left around the church and begin to follow Guido Street. You’ll pass the former rectory and school on your right.

      When you reach Pavilion Street, glance to your left to see some of the main business strip; we’ll return to that later. Instead, turn right on Pavilion. Ahead, as you continue forward, Pavilion will curve to the left and become Carney Street; walk on the left side to stay on the sidewalk and continue. For the next few blocks, headed mostly downhill, observe the colorful siding of the homes and the range of architectural styles. This is residential Mount Adams today: wealthy, private, filled with neat gardens and creeping ivy, settled closely together, intrinsically urban. Between the buildings to your right, you’ll catch more glimpses of wonderful river views.

      Turn right on Parkside Place. You are now walking along the borders of Eden Park.

      Follow Art Museum Drive away from the museum as the road curves around the hill. Continue right at the fork; do not turn left on Mt. Adams Drive.

      Turn left on Ida Street. You’re reentering the Mount Adams neighborhood, and to your right you will again see the beautiful narrow houses hanging off the side of the hill.

      Turn right on Wareham Drive, and then immediately turn left to continue on Paradrome Street.

      Turn right on Louden Street. As you walk slightly uphill, you’re nearing the main area for businesses and nightlife.

      As you head up the stair-stepped brick sidewalk, take a look at the statue of the wine-sloshing monk on the patio. He’s called Father Quinn by the locals and is a tribute to one of Mount Adams’s mythic figures: Father Quinn is said to have brought provisions to the needy during the brutal winter of 1888.

      Originally called Mount Ida, after a washerwoman who was said to have lived there in the base of a sycamore tree, the entire area of Mount Adams was purchased by Longworth in 1831. He turned the barren, deforested land into a vineyard, on his way to becoming the first commercially successful winemaker in the United States. Later, he donated 4 acres at the top of the hillside to be made into an observatory (supposedly with a mind to increase his property’s value). John Quincy Adams, in one of his last public speeches, presided over the dedication of the Cincinnati Observatory in 1843, and this is why the hill was redubbed Mount Adams.

      The original observatory building was moved to Mount Lookout in 1873 to escape the air pollution from downtown, and the site in Mount Adams became home to the Holy Cross Monastery and Church. The building you’re looking at was completed in 1901 and served as a monastery until 1977. The Holy Cross Church served the Irish immigrants of the hill, and later the parish combined with the German parish of the Immaculate Conception to become the Holy Cross Immaculata that you saw at the beginning of this tour, on the other end of Pavilion Street.

      The monastery building is one of several Mount Adams buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and today it houses commercial office space and an event center.

      Turn left on Monastery Street and head down the hill. As you bear left on Celestial Street, you’ll see wide views opening ahead of you again. Continue to bear left


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