ANNA LOUISE INN
Dining Room
Located next to Lytle Park at 3rd and Pike this building was constructed in 1909 as a residence for young working women. The original structure contained 120 single rooms but it proved to be so popular that it was later added to so that it now contains 285 single rooms, sitting rooms on each floor, and a large drawing room. When it was first opened no girl was allowed to live there if they earned more than $10 a week. The price of room and board varied from $2.75 to $4.50 a week depending on the rooms location and how much the girl made a week. The inn also contained a laundry, a sewing room, and a roof garden. The Union Bethel that was located across 3rd Street was the organization that was responsible for the construction of the building. and the inn was named after the daughter of the principle donors, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft.
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10 View Court
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Mt. Auburn
Loveland
HOMESTEAD HOTEL
Kings Mills
MARIEMONT INN
Located at 6880 Wooster Pike in the Village of Mariemont the Inn was built in 1925 initially as the office space for the Mariemont Company (company responsible for the construction of the city of Mariemont) which included the rental and sales department. In September 1926 the Engineering dept. moved in. The Mariemont Inn opened for business on April 13, 1929. Flowers were dropped from an airplane onto the Inn during the opening. The Mariemont Company operated the Inn with their own manager for a time. Later outside hotel men took over the management. In 1945 the Inn was sold to Lawrence Jones of Philadelphia. In 1962 the Jones estate sold the Inn to Spinnen-weber Builders, Inc.
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ELEANOR LODGE GREEN TOWNSHIP HOTEL KEMPER LANE HOTEL LAREDO HOTEL
THE PRESIDENT THE EIMER HOTEL
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3743 Reading Road
6th & Walnut
at Greenwood
THE OAK HOTEL AUBURN HOTEL PARK HOTEL
Main & Malvern Place
College Hill
HOTEL ANDERSON COLONIAL HOTEL SEIBERT'S HOTEL ELMWOOD PLACE
307-309 Broadway
311 Broadway
Next door to Hotel Anderson!
VALLEY VIEW HOTEL
This card has so much crossed out and replaced with new information it is hard to figure out what this complex used to be.
THE ANSWER
DIXIE HOTEL PRINCETON HOTEL BRISTOL HOTEL
3rd & Broadway
431 Main Street
SW Corner 6th & Walnut
A Chinese laundry is on the corner.
VERNON MANOR
Located at 400 Oak Street this 177 room building
was built in 1924 at a cost of $1.5 million. When opened it was for wealthy,
retired persons living in luxurious apartments, it also contained hotel rooms
and a restaurant open to the public. In 1945 it was considered to be pretty well
run down. It was bought by Marge Schott's father-in law Walter Schott. It continued
downhill due to racial unrest in the area during the 60's and 70's. It was again
sold in 1977. In the 1980's a multi-million dollar restoration once again
brought back the hotel to its old glory. It has now been decided to close the
hotel at the end of March, 2009 due to "current market conditions."
Over the years the hotel has hosted many of the nation's most famous
celebrities such as Presidents Lyndon Johnson, George Bush Sr. and John F. Kennedy. Some of
Hollywood's celebrities have been Judy Garland, Yul Brynner, Jane Fonda, Pete
Rose, Sarah Jessica Parker, Willie
Nelson, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, little Richard, The Temptations, Luther
Vandross, Emmy Lou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Charlie Daniels, The Allman
Brothers, Sheryl Crow, etc. The cast and crew of the movie "Rainman"
including Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise made the Vernon Manor their temporary
home while filming in the Cincinnati area in 1988. In the movie, Hoffman's
character keeps repeating "400 Oak St." in various scenes.
The famous anthropologist Margaret Mead resided here annually when
she was a visiting professor at the medical school.
The Beatles stayed at the hotel in 1966, during the band's second
trip to Cincinnati. The suite they stayed in had two bathrooms, living and
dining rooms, a kitchen and den. Since then it has been known as The Beatles
Suite and contains Beatles memorabilia on all the walls with the furniture in
Sgt. Pepper colors.
The swimming pool seen in the last card has long been filled in for
use as a parking lot. The building will be converted, in 2010, into office space
for Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
YONONTE INN
Not a postcard
Located in the area of Woodford and Robinson Roads in Kennedy Heights. Yononte Inn was started by Anthony J. Bullock, as a summer resort. Built in the 1880s, the sprawling 50 room Queen Anne style building cost $65,000 to build, It was called Yononte after a legendary Miami Indian maiden who, according to legend, had been married on the site. It was located on the eastern rim of the hills above the Norwood trough, overlooking the Little Miami Valley, Madisonville, Oakley, Hyde Park, and Norwood. The inn prospered, attracting the Cincinnati elite. It was the sight of many parties and balls to which the rich and famous, including the Vanderbilts were said to have attended. By 1907 the hotel had outlived its usefulness and, after serving for a time as an exclusive dance hall, closed its doors. It burned to the ground in 1909.
CLEVES LOVELAND MILFORD
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