Hooked on Houses

We’re at our final stop on the Cincinnati Preservation Association’s house tour in the North Avondale neighborhood. And I think I saved the best for last.
The Mack House, a 7,000 square-foot Tudor Revival-style mansion, was built by Jacob Mack in 1931, and featured a round half-tower that you can see here. It looks like Rapunzel [...]

May 15th, 2008 | Tags: 1930s, Architecture, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Preservation Association, Dave Matthews Band, House Tour, John Henri Deeken, leaded windows, mansion, North Avondale, Ohio, tudor | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (19)

This Tudor Revival-style home was built in 1915 by Stephen Gerrard, who was known as “the Cantaloupe King.” He was a truck farmer who built an empire by shipping cantaloupes from Colorado to the Midwest in refrigerated railroad cars. He went on to invent the refrigerated truck and popularize iceberg lettuce in the U.S.
Sadly, when [...]

May 15th, 2008 | Tags: Better Homes and Gardens, cantaloupe, Cincinnati, gargoyles, Great Depression, House Tour, limestone, mansion, North Avondale, Ohio, Real Estate, renovating, Stephen Gerrard, trucks, tudor | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (15)

The Belvedere, one of the first luxury apartment buildings in Cincinnati, reeks of Jazz Age glamor. The high rise was constructed in North Avondale in 1925 and was one of the stops on the home tour we went on last weekend.
The apartment units originally featured up to 6 bedrooms, as well as separate servants’ quarters. [...]

May 14th, 2008 | Tags: 1920s, 1925, apartments, Architecture, chandeliers, Charles H. Ferber, Cincinnati, condominiums, elevator, House Tour, Jazz Age, North Avondale, Ohio | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (19)

It’s time to show you the actual houses that were on the North Avondale Home Tour last weekend. This 1937 Normandy Manor, known as The Levine House, will be our first stop.
But first, to set the scene, I’m going to tell you how I embarrassed myself a little that day. I don’t know why, since [...]

May 14th, 2008 | Tags: Cincinnati, fireplace, historic house, House Tour, mansion, Normandy Manor, North Avondale, Ohio, old house, Real Estate, Victorian | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (11)

This was one of the houses we walked by on the house tour through North Avondale. This three-story home was built in 1908 and has 6 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, with a total of 6,500 square feet. It’s currently on the market for $860,000, so I looked up the interior photos to show you (see [...]

May 13th, 2008 | Tags: 1908, Cincinnati, Decorating, kitchen remodel, MLS, North Avondale, Ohio, old house, Real Estate, Rose Hill | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (19)

Let’s continue our walking tour of North Avondale now and see what other interesting houses we can find– like this pink one with yellow trim, which looked like something out of a fairy tale.

May 12th, 2008 | Tags: Architecture, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Preservation Association, House Tour, North Avondale, Ohio, Real Estate, Victorian | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (16)

As I mentioned yesterday, Dave and I went on a tour of historic mansions in North Avondale over the weekend, and now I have lots of fun photos to share with you.
Avondale was one of the earliest, and toniest, suburbs of Cincinnati. In 1886 Willard Glazier wrote about it in his book Peculiarities of American [...]

May 12th, 2008 | Tags: Architecture, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Preservation Association, German, historic preservation, history, House Tour, Jewish, mansions, millionaires, neighborhood, North Avondale, Ohio, old house, real estsate, suburb | Category: House Tour, Older Homes | Comments (18)