Lytle Park Historic District

01/16/2020

The Taft Museum of Art received a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to renovate the Historic House.

12/25/2019

Live Nativity in Lytle Park (1950). Merry Christmas! ❤️

11/03/2019

The Lytle Park Marriott Autograph boutique hotel is finally scheduled to open in March 2020. It will have over 100 rooms, a patio overlooking the park, a glass-topped lobby bar, a rooftop terrace with retractable cover, and even an Italian restaurant called "Subito".

06/21/2019

01/04/2019

Cincinnati from the Ohio river (circa 1907): on the upper left side you can spot the Polk Building (currently Park Place at Lytle).

11/21/2017

Just west of the Taft Museum, the intersection of Fourth, Lawrence, and Ludlow streets once marked the pointed end of a triangular neighborhood known as Flat Iron Square. Although there were some fine homes there, most of the structures running south to the river were craftsmen’s shops. When much of Flat Iron Square burned in 1870, the city bought it all up and created Lytle Park.

Today, 52 neighborhoods comprise the city of Cincinnati, from Sayler Park to Mount Washington. But there are neighborhoods that survive only in musty newspaper files and mysterious street names.

02/01/2016

On Friday I was informed that the sale of Lytle Street to Western & Southern had not made it onto the Friday afternoon agenda for today's Budget & Finance Committee. Apparently Western & Southern is paying the appraised value less the credit for 50% of the cost incurred with putting in their new private driveway. We lose public access and the parking places currently on the street.

What can we do? Send an email to City Council.

Here's what I wrote: "This obvious manipulation of public transparency is offensive and a violation of the spirit (if not the letter) of Ohio Sunshine laws. It's offensive to those of us who actually believe in democratic principles.
The public is tired of being intentionally excluded from development decisions that involve significant city investment and substantial risk. As our elected representatives, I beg you to demand city administration plays fair and lets citizens be a part of these conversations. Because we are not going away. Eventually we will draw enough attention to this matter to bring about real change."
If you get a chance, could you ask Council to demand that the administration play fair: [email protected]

02/01/2016

Historic protection shouldn't be so easy to get around. We lose buildings all the time under shady circumstances. Of course, Lytle Park Historic District should be particularly sensitive to this issue.

A historic district is a group of buildings that have been designated as historically or architecturally significant - and the honest to goodness truth is that they are all - every last one of them...

10/30/2015

Lytle Park is one of the lucky ones should Tuesday's property tax increase pass. But why are middle class home owners being asked to pay for an amenity redesigned for the needs oif one of our most financially successful corporations?

If you live or work in one of these nine neighborhoods, there’s a high probability you are an enthusiastic supporter of Mayor Cranley’s property tax increase for the parks: Central Business Distric...

10/01/2015

Again: what don't they want us to see?

While everyone is debating Issue 22, the Cincinnati Parks Levy, I hope they keep in mind the levy will only fund capital costs, not operating costs. Which means the city can build new parks, but not pay for ongoing operations. What does this mean? There are clues, our tone-deaf and relentlessly ill-…

09/14/2015

If you are interested in construction and amazing feats of human engineering, the Lytle Park Hole is a fascinating project and today Pike Street is closed to make room for the concrete pumping mach...