SCARLET OAKS BETHESDA HOME FOR THE AGED
Drawing room in the Mansion
Chapel
Scarlet Oaks was built in 1867 on 47 acres at 440
Lafayette Ave., Clifton for George K. Schoenberger (1809-1892). Owner of the
Juanita Ironworks he brought craftsmen from Europe to carve the woodwork. The
name came from the many oak trees that grew on the property. The cost of
construction was $750,000 not counting the furnishings. His summer home was in
what was then called Schoenberger's Woods, it is now known as Inwood Park..
Schoenberger was a philanthropist and one of the developers of Spring Grove
Cemetery. It is said he developed Spring Grove so that the view of the valley
below his home would be improved.
Ernest H. Huenefeld, a prominent Cincinnati businessman and
supporter of the German Methodist Church, bought Scarlet Oaks in 1908 and
presented it to the Bethesda Methodist Deaconess for use as a hospital for the
elderly. Lafayette Hall, a nursing home, was built nearby in 1918-1919.
The adjoining Scarlet Oaks Manor, a 112 room residential building
was dedicated in 1960, the health center in 1966, and additional apartments in
1973. The improved and restored mansion was listed on the National Register of
Historic Places in 1973 and now houses a chapel, library, beauty shop, craft and
recreation facilities, drawing room, and private dining room.
Bodman Widows
Home
Home for the Jewish Aged Mount
Healthy Christian Home. 8097 Hamilton Ave.
Riverview
Home
St. Theresa Home
The Cincinnati Presbyterian Home
Dining Room
5999 Bender
Road
6760 Belkenton Place
1701 Llanfair Ave.
The Baptist Home & Center
Old Folks
Home
The Willis D. Gradison Memorial Lounge
2373 Harrison Ave. Westwood
Walnut
Hills
The Willis D. Gradison Memorial Lounge is located at the Hyde Park Multi-Service Center for older adults at 2800 Eire Avenue.
The Widow's and Old Men's Home located at 1310 East McMillan Street was founded in 1849.
CLOVERNOOK HOME FOR THE BLIND
Clovernook is Ohio's first home for blind women. Located at 6900-7000 Hamilton Avenue in North College Hill, it opened on May 8, 1903 with 10 residents. The original 1837 Cary farmhouse seen in many of the cards below, was the childhood home of poets Alice and Phoebe Cary. William Cooper Proctor, co-founder of the Proctor & Gamble Co. bought the land for the purpose of teaching the blind to read brail and to learn a trade. Proctor bought the land at the urging of Georgia and Florence Trader who, because Georgia was blind, had devoted themselves to improving the lives of blind Cincinnatians.
Warren Cary at well
Cary Cottage
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Printing
Shop
Weaving Department
This card is identical to the Weaving Department
card seen in the previous row except for one very important difference. It was
produced for blind people. This card was embossed with the Braille Language.
Although I can not read Braille it is pretty obvious that it says
"Greetings from Clovernook Home for the Blind".
One of the major items Clovernook now produces, at their plant in
Memphis, Tenn., are recyclable cups. They provided 30,000 drinking cups to the
Democratic National Convention when Barack Obama was nominated. The U.S. Navy
purchases roughly 9 million cups each year for use on its ships, the cups leave
little or no impact to the ocean environment. Another major buyer of about
120,000 cups per year is the Statue of Liberty National Monument gift shop and
concession service. Clovernook now employs around 90 visually handicapped adults
here and in Memphis. Other paper products made are things like file folders,
Braille magazines, and books.
Clovernook pets
Rugs & coverlets
made at Clovernook
Newer long post card showing knee blankets
made by the women at Clovernook Home & School.
Carey Oaks
Private Mailing
card
Free Day
Nursery
Bond Issue for a recreation site in the city basin
area.
Rescue Mission boat during flood
Shantytown Children
or Bible School at Shanty Town
Home for incurables located on Beechwood Avenue
East Walnut Hills
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Sisters of Charity Residence
Norwood Heights
UNION BETHEL
The location on the card below is probably in
the area of 501-505 E. Third St. (next to Lytle Park). The Cincinnati Union
Bethel was founded in 1839 by The Western Seamen's Friends Society to give a
helping hand to river men, their families, and the poor in general. The Union
Bethel is the oldest private social service agency in the Cincinnati area. They
were originally located on the North side of Front St. between Sycamore St. and
Broadway on the Public Landing. In order to reach a larger number of river
boatmen then could conveniently attend religious services at their Public
Landing Headquarters, the Union Bethel, in 1853, outfitted a barge and sent it
out on the river as a meeting hall. This river church, called the Floating
Bethel and sometimes the Boatmen's Bethel brought religion to many landings near
Cincinnati.
In 1866 the Union Bethel became an independent agency and
moved to the location in the card below. At this time it modified its program
and in addition to providing medical aid and charity for people in the
neighborhood, they began to carry out broad recreational and educational
programs. Their activities included club work, handcrafts, home management,
economics, health programs, and musical training. As a side note, the person
teaching the children in the card below was the Reverend James O. White who was
responsible for, (with financial help from the Taft family), the opening of the
Anna Louise Inn for working women which is located next to Lytle Park. The Union
Bethel ran this Inn in addition to other endeavors. It is a Community Chest
agency and still going strong.
Teaching children gardening
