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The Gourmet Room or Gourmet Restaurant (1948–1992) was a fine-dining restaurant and iconic modernist space in Cincinnati, Ohio, which received five-star Mobil ratings in the 1970s and was at the time one of the few restaurants in the country so rated. [1] It won multiple dining awards from Holiday. [2] [3]
The Taft Museum of Art is a fine art collection in Cincinnati, Ohio.It occupies the 200-year-old historic house at 316 Pike Street. The house – the oldest domestic wooden structure in downtown Cincinnati – was built about 1820 and housed several prominent Cincinnatians, including Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft. [2]
William Howard Taft National Historic Site has two main buildings. The first is the original home owned by William Howard Taft's parents, Alphonso and Louise Taft. It has been restored to look as it did during the time William lived there. All the family portraits and many of the books on display belonged to the Taft family.
York Street Cafe, Newport. After writing an ode to York Street Cafe several years ago, I was sad to see it go. Real estate developer David Hosea opened what was then called York Street ...
Downtown Cincinnati is an increasingly residential area with former commercial space, such as Park Place at Lytle, being converted into luxury condos. [12] Museums downtown include the high-rise Contemporary Arts Center, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the Taft Museum of Art.
Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory William Lytle II built his house there in 1809, [6] about ten years prior to the completion of the neighboring Martin Baum mansion (now the Taft Museum of Art). [7] [8] Lytle II was known for helping set up the first bank in Cincinnati called the Miami Exporting Company, along with other reputable men ...
Cincinnati was home to three of the eight Mobil 5-star rated restaurants in the United States in the 1960s; at the time, New York City had two. [8] [9] [10] By 1986 Cincinnati had two 5-star Mobil restaurants, Pigall's and The Maisonette; it was one of only a few cities with two restaurants with the rating. [11]
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