Walking Cincinnati. Danny Korman

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200 artists and is headquarters for Final Friday and Second Look Saturday art walks. Turn left on 13th Street. On the right is St. Mary Baptist Church, housed inside one of the city’s former bathhouses. Spring Street (on the right) dead-ends at Liberty Street and features town houses, gardens, and carriage houses that serve houses on Broadway. Turn right on Broadway. On the east side is an impressive row of houses that defy urban life with their front lawns, large trees, and gardens. The Renaissance Revival limestone-fronted house at 1324 Broadway was built in 1852 and home to Christian Boss, owner of Gambrinus Stock Co. Brewery at 12th and Sycamore Streets. Follow the cast-iron railings to 1342 Broadway, a rare Federal house from 1834 and one of the city’s oldest. Seven houses on Broadway’s west side north of 14th Street are mostly Italianate.

      After exploring the market, continue south on Race Street. Over-the-Rhine Recreation Center, hidden behind 1708 Race St., is a mix of refurbished historic buildings and infill from 1971. [Detour: Head east two blocks on Green Street to Vine Street for Tucker’s Restaurant (1637 Vine St.), the neighborhood’s oldest diner (since 1946) serving comfort food classics for breakfast and lunch.]

      A cluster of culinary businesses has emerged in these blocks: Poke Hut (1509 Race St.), Anchor OTR (1401 Race St.), Zula Restaurant & Wine Bar (1400 Race St.), Salazar (1401 Republic St.), and more in a neighborhood with a regular stream of new business openings. Anchor OTR benefits from a restored wooden veranda, an important part of the area’s architectural heritage, facing Washington Park.

      Washington Park, on the right between 14th and 12th Streets, is older than most buildings that surround it. Cincinnati’s second-oldest park was the site of four separate cemeteries for several churches before the city acquired the land between 1855 and 1863. The 6-acre park is a popular destination year-round and features concerts in the bandstand, a water park, mature trees, and a playground.

      South of Cincy Shakes, as the theater calls itself, is the towering Central Parkway YMCA (1918). The Italian Renaissance building with two-story arched windows is home to offices for the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, along with 65 affordable apartments for seniors. Walk along 12th Street toward Race Street and take in the block-long rear facade of the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA). Key to the revitalization of Washington Park, this was the first K–12 arts school in the United States. Founded in 1973 as one of the first magnet schools in the city, it relocated here from the old Woodward High School building on Sycamore Street. SCPA is a model of excellence in school integration.

      Remain standing at 13th Street for a closeup view of two ArtWorks murals. Each is part of more than 50 elaborate murals painted on the sides of buildings in Over-the-Rhine and downtown. You’ll notice them almost everywhere you go. (For even closer inspection, ArtWorks student apprentices provide guided walking tours.) The Vision of Samuel Hannaford shows a portrait of Samuel Hannaford resting on blueprints, symbolizing his architectural legacy in Cincinnati. The Golden Muse features a larger-than-life figurine from an 18th-century mantel clock in the Taft Museum of Art’s collection.