Parks

   
List of all the Parks in Cincinnati area.

EDEN  PARK

  The first part of this section will concentrate on the two main entrances to Eden Park to be reached from Gilbert Avenue. There is a third entrance and it is shown in the last two cards. The first three cards show the entrance at Elsinore Tower from a distance with Gilbert Avenue going by it left to right. If you turn left on Gilbert Avenue at Elsinore Tower you would see the view in the fourth card. The last card shows the area called Deer Creek Common (you can see parts of it in all these cards). There were 6 landscaped baseball diamonds and a field house for indoor sports. This was the scene of the city's amateur baseball games, It was also where Woodward High School played its football and baseball home games. The buildings you see in the distance on Gilbert Ave. was the Baldwin Piano factory. The buildings you see on the top of the hill in the first four cards is the Cincinnati Art Museum.

  Elsinore Tower is said to be inspired by Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Built in 1883 it was actually a valve house for the reservoir in Eden Park. Its purpose was to control the amount of water from the reservoir to the city basin below. There are steps behind the tower leading up the hill to the park, art museum, and a  bandstand located on top. Later a roadway was constructed thru the arch turning right and going up to Mount Adams and from there to Eden Park. The reservoir valves are now housed in a vault beneath the tower.

               
                                                                                               Glitter card

              
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                                                                                       View from top of hill

MAIN  ENTRANCE

  We are now at the main entrance to Eden Park which is across Gilbert Avenue from the Baldwin Piano Factory. The first two rows show the entrance from Gilbert Avenue. The next three rows show the entrance from inside the park. In some of the cards you can see the Baldwin Piano Factory thru the arch. In the last two cards you can see the Cincinnati Art Museum on the left side.
  One thing you will notice in most of these cards are the street cars going by over the top of the entrance. Constructed in 1874 this was called a double-decked viaduct and was used up until 1949 when the Mount Adams Incline was closed and this line was no longer used, (it went to McMillan Avenue and points beyond). The top half was used first by horse cars and then by street cars. The lower deck was used by carriage riders and pedestrians.

Not a postcard

Scene on lower part of viaduct

                       
Real Photo Postcard                                                                                                                                                                  

These two cards are probably showing the entrance to Eden Park on Fulton Avenue, which can be
 reached from several streets along Gilbert Avenue. I just love those "realistic" looking cars drawn in.

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