Exerior view of the Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati Museum Center

The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is a converted railroad terminal that houses museums, theaters, and a library. Nickname: The Queen City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 355 km 355 km 8. ... Amtrak train in downtown Orlando, Florida Amtrak’s high-speed Acela Express at Penn Station New York, NY Amtrak, is the brand name of the intercity passenger train system created on May 1, 1971 in the United States. ... The Cardinal is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1442 KB) Outside shot of the Cincinnati Museum Center File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1442 KB) Outside shot of the Cincinnati Museum Center File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Cincinnati-union-terminal. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Cincinnati-union-terminal. ...

History

The Museum Center was originally built as Cincinnati's Union Terminal. Construction took place between 1929 and 1933. The principal architects of the massive building were Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, with architects Paul Philippe Cret and Roland Wank brought in as design consultants; Cret is responsible for the building's Art Deco style. At the time of its completion, it was the only half-dome in the Western Hemisphere. Winold Reiss was commissioned to design and create two 22 foot high by 110 foot long color mosaic murals for the rotunda, two murals for the baggage lobby, two murals for the departing and arriving train boards,14 smaller murals for the train concourse representing local industries and the large world map murial located ar the rear of the concourse. Reiss spent roughly two years in the design and creation of the murals. The 14 industries chosen to be depicted were: Nickname: The Queen City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Paul Philippe Cret (October 24, 1876, Lyon, France – September 8, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a French-American architect and industrial designer. ... Roland Wank Roland Wank (1898–1970) was a Hungarian modernist architect, best known for his work for the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States. ... Asheville City Hall. ...

• Piano making (Baldwin Piano Co.)
• Radio broadcasting (Crosley Broadcasting)
• Roof manufacture (Philip Carey Co.)
• Tanning (American Oak Leather Co.)
• Airplane and parts manufacture (Aeronica Company)
• Ink making (Ault & Weiborg Corp.)
• Laundry-machinery manufacture (American Laundry Machine)
• Meat packing (Kahn Meat Packing)
• Drug and chemical processing (William S. Merrill Co.)
• Printing and publishing (U.S. Playing Card Co. and Champion Paper Company)
• Foundry products operations (Cincinnati Milling Machine)
• Sheet steel making (American Rolling Mills and Newport Rolling Mill)
• Soap making (The Procter & Gamble Co.)
• Machine tools manufacture (Cincinnati Milling Machine).

The mayor at the time of the project's inception was Murray Seasongood. It took four years and $41.5 million to complete. Like other union terminals and stations, it was a joint project of several, in this case seven, railroad lines to create a single station for the entire city. The Union Terminal Company was created to build the terminal itself, the railroad lines into and out of the terminal, and to reconstruct the roadways that were destroyed by this project. The new viaducts the Union Terminal Company created to cross the Mill Creek valley ranged from the well built, like the Western Hills viaduct, to the more hastily constructed and shabby, like the Waldvogel Viaduct. The terminal welcomed its first trains on March 19, 1933 when it was forced into emergency operation due to flooding of the Ohio River. The official opening of the station was on March 31, 1933. Murray Seasongood (October 27, 1878-February 21, 1983) served as the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1926-1930. ... A union station or union terminal is a train station where tracks and facilities are shared by two or more railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ohio River viewed from Liberty Hill in Ripley, Ohio. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Train terminal

During its heyday, the Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and 108 out. In the terminal's rotunda, two murals (mosaic) depicting the history of Cincinnati were created by German artist Winold Reiss. Three concentric lanes of traffic were created to go in one side of the terminal, underneath the main rotunda of the building, and then out the other side: one for taxis, one for buses, and one (although never used) for trains. However, the time period in which the terminal was built was one of decline for train travel. While it had a brief revival in the 1940s, because of World War II, it declined in use through the 1950s and the 1960s. Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. ... Cincinnati was founded in 1788 by John Cleves Symmes. ... Winold Reiss (1886-1953) was born September 16, 1886 in Karlsruhe, Germany. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 8 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. ... 1950 (MCML in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

View of one mural in the rotunda of the Cincinnati Museum Center

In the early 1970s, train service at Union Terminal was reduced to just two trains a day and on the evening of Saturday, October 28, 1972 the last train—an overnighter to Washington, D.C.—pulled out of Cincinnati Union Terminal. Southern Railway had purchased some of the land to use for its own expanded freight operations in its Gest Street yard and planned on removing the 450 foot long passenger train concourse to allow additional height for its piggyback operations. On May 15, 1973 the Cincinnati City Council's Urban Development and Planning Committee voted 3-1 in favor of designating Union Terminal for preservation as an historic landmark, preventing Southern Railway from destroying the entire building. In 1974, the Southern Railway did tear down most of the train concourse, an action which they now say that they wish had never taken place. Before the concourse was destroyed, fourteen of the mosaic murals depicting important Cincinnati industries were removed from the concorse and installed at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The only mural no longer in existence is the world map which was destroyed when the concorse was removed. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 155 KB) One of the mural replicas now present in Cincinnati Museum Center File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 155 KB) One of the mural replicas now present in Cincinnati Museum Center File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... The Southern Railway (AAR designation SOU) was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined since the 1830s. ... Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... The term National landmark may refer to one of two programs of the United States government: National Historic Landmark National Natural Landmark Also see: Listed building (United Kingdom equivalent) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. ... Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (IATA: CVG, ICAO: KCVG) is located in Hebron, Kentucky in Boone County and serves the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. ...

Shopping mall

In 1978, Columbus, Ohio real estate development group the Joseph Skilken Organization converted the terminal into a shopping mall known as the "Land of OZ." This would projected to be a family entertainment and shopping complex including a shopping area, roller skating rink, bowling alleys, and restaurants. Skilken invested upwards of $20 million in renovations preparing the terminal in the hope that this would revitalize the complex and help keep people in downtown Cincinnati. Link title 1978 (MCMLXXVIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Nickname: The Arch City The Discovery City Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

These plans were put into action and on August 4, 1980, after 23 months of conversion construction, the mall had its Grand Opening, with 40 tenants. The complex drew on average 7,900 visitors per day and it would see a high of 54 shops or vendors. The recession of the early 1980s caused the project to on hard times. In 1981 the first tenant moved out and by 1982 the number of tenants had fallen to 21. Also in August of 1982, the Cincinnati Museum of Health, Science and Industry would open in the terminal. The OZ project officially closed in 1984 however Loehmanns, a clothing store located in the rotunda remained open until 1985. The passanger drop off ramps that ran under the rotunda was used for a weekend flea market for several years. August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI in Roman) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

Museum Center

The terminal laid empty for the next decade or so. In 1988, the City of Cincinnati passed a tax levy to save the terminal from destruction and to transform it into the Cincinnati Museum Center. Former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer was one of the major proponents of saving the building and transforming it into a museum. It was opened in 1990 and now provides a home to five organizations: 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII in Roman) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... Gerald Norman Jerry Springer (born February 13, 1944 in Hampstead, England, a suburb of London) is a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, who now hosts a television program bearing his name, The Jerry Springer Show. ... This article is about the year. ...

• Cincinnati History Museum
• Museum of Natural History & Science
• Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater
• Cincinnati Historical Society Library
• Cinergy Children's Museum

The renovations allowed Amtrak to restore service to Union Terminal via the thrice-weekly Cardinal on July 29, 1991. The Cardinal is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI in Roman) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Mecklenborg, Jake(2005). Cincinnati-Transit.net.
• Spurlock, William(2005). The Railroad Architecture of Alfred T. Fellheimer.
• The Railroad and the City, A Techonological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati, Written by Carl W. Condit. 1977, Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0265-9
• Works Progress Administration(ed. Harry Graff)(1943). WPA Guide to Cincinnati: Cincinnati, a guide to the Queen City and its neighbors. Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Historical Society. ISBN 0-911497-04-8.

External links

• Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal Web Site
• Building review incorporating images from the Historic American Buildings Survey
• The Railroad Architecture of Alfred T. Fellheimer
• Union Terminal Mosaics
• Union Terminal on Placeopedia
• Cincinnati Museum Center Rotunda VR (QuickTime 5 or 6 required)
• Exterior View VR (QuickTime required)