Cincinnati
— — the river city that learned to keep its old brick.
Not only on a wall.
“The Queen City sits on a long bend of the Ohio, with the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge running south to Covington and the spires of Over-the-Rhine standing where the German brewers built them. Cincinnati keeps its 19th-century brick the way other cities keep their skylines. Late afternoon, the limestone of Music Hall takes the light, the river barges work the channel, and the smell of chili from a Skyline counter drifts up Vine Street. from the studio
Cincinnati, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Cincinnati sits on the north bank of the Ohio River in Hamilton County, Ohio, at about 482 feet of elevation, directly across from Covington and Newport, Kentucky. Founded in 1788 and named for the Society of the Cincinnati, it grew through the 19th century as a Midwestern pork-packing and river-trade hub. The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, completed in 1866, served as the prototype for Roebling's later Brooklyn Bridge. The city's Over-the-Rhine district holds one of the largest concentrations of Italianate architecture in the United States, and the Cincinnati Reds, founded in 1869, are the oldest professional baseball franchise.
The Ohio River runs 981 miles from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, and Cincinnati grew at the bend where flatboat traffic naturally paused. The river is a working channel still, locked and dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers, and tow barges run coal and grain past the Public Landing where steamboats used to tie up. From Mount Adams the river reads as a slow brown ribbon under six bridges. The Roebling Bridge, painted blue, hums under tire traffic the same way it has since 1867.
Over-the-Rhine sits just north of downtown, walkable from Fountain Square in about ten minutes. Findlay Market, open since 1852, is Ohio's oldest continuously operated public market and runs Tuesday through Sunday. Music Hall, finished in 1878, hosts the Cincinnati Symphony and the May Festival. For the river, the Smale Riverfront Park and the Roebling pedestrian deck give the cleanest line of sight. Skyline and Camp Washington are the two chili counters most often named when locals are asked.