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Past Events 2009
On Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 10 am, historic
preservation consultant Beth Sullebarger will give a lecture titled The New
Deal’s Legacy in Cincinnati Architecture: 1933 – 1943. The lecture will
include some of Cincinnati’s notable architecture including Lunken Airport,
Union Terminal and Greenhills. The lecture is presented by the Cincinnati
Preservation Association and the Betts House.
The lecture, held in conjunction with a national celebration of the 75th
anniversary of the New Deal, will take place at the Greenhills Community
Building on Endicott Street. Built in 1937 as the center of village life,
the Community Building features several fine works of public art by local
artists funded by the WPA. The village of Greenhills was built during the
New Deal as a model “Greenbelt” town. The project, which began in 1935, was
intended to provide jobs as well as housing in a community designed to
promote an ideal of suburban living. Greenhills was completed in 1938. A
guided tour of the Community Building will take place after the lecture.
Admission for the lecture will be $12 for the public and $7 for members of
the Cincinnati Preservation Association or the Betts House Research Center.
Reservations are recommended; please contact the Cincinnati Preservation
Association by phone at 513-721-4506 or by email at
info@cincinnatipreservation.org.
Beth Sullebarger, a historic preservation consultant based in Glendale,
Ohio, is a contributing author of Architecture in Cincinnati: an Illustrated
History of Designing and Building an American City, recently published by
Ohio University Press. Her interest in New Deal-era architecture led her to
produce A Guide to Art and Architecture in Cincinnati’s Parks, which
received an award from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office. Recent
projects include Sacred Spaces of Greater Cincinnati, a documentary
premiered by CET in March 2008 and an exhibit entitled Lost Cincinnati for
the Betts House Research Center. Ms. Sullebarger holds a master’s degree in
Historic Preservation from Columbia University and previously served as
Executive Director of the Cincinnati Preservation Association and a member
of the Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board.
Greenhills, OHIO
March 23: Dr. Allan Winkler was the guest lecturer in the Greenhills
Council Chambers on March 23, 2009. He spoke on Franklin D. Roosevelt and
the Making o Modern America. He is a professor of American history at Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio and specializes in 20th century American history.
He has recently completed a book on folk singer, Pete Seeger, that will be
out later this year.
May 18: Diane Smith of the Art Academy of Cincinnati spoke on Artists at
Work: The WPA in Cincinnati.
Point of Interest: The Greenhills Shopping Center was the first Co-op
Shopping Center in the U.S. I was the second Greenbelt Towns to open. Also,
it was the first automobile mall of its type in the U. S.
Greenbelt, MD was the first of the Greenbelt towns and had the first Co-op
Grocery Store.
Past Events 2008
1. Tentative-Main Library Cincinnati—Lecture series and exhibit
2. Uof Cinn. College Conservatory of Music — considering producing a Federal Theater play that was staged her during the ND.
3. Cincinnati
–The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Cincinnati
will offer a seminar in the spring composed of eight sessions studying New
Topics; philosophical foundations, cultural arts and FDR’s fight with the
Supreme Court among them. Moderated by NNDPA board member. Charles
Nuckolls, NNDPA board member
4. Hamilton, Ohio— Miami University. Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. “Eleanor
Roosevelt, This is My Story” The Michael J. Colligan History Project will
present Susan Marie Frontczak as the First Lady. The year is 1937. Come meet
her in during her husband’s second term. Through a series of vignettes,
catch alternating glimpses into Mrs. Roosevelt’s public and private
personae. One hour program starts with a 40-45 monologue in-character
followed by a Q&A session with Mrs. R and then Q&A with the
scholar/presenter.
*Also proposed activities—Main Branch of Library—series of lecture/discussion sessions based on the city’s New Deal history.
*University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music -- is considering the possibility of producing a Federal Theater Project play that was staged here
*Retrospective of 1938 WPA Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit.
5. On March 13, the Fort Ancient State Memorial dedicated an Ohio Historical Marker at the site of CCC Camp 588 in Oregonia, Ohio. Over 200 young African American CCC participants camp completed 56 projects at Fort Ancient, a prehistoric site back in the 1930’s. The camp area has continued to be used and received in 2005 a Save America’s Treasures grant to restore/update some of the clay drainage culverts put in place by the C’s. Much research has gone into the CCC work by the staff at Fort Ancient.
6.
Chillicothe—Tar Hollow State Park. Sept. 19 This State Park is planning
a 75th Anniversary celebration and is seeking the 67 CCC members of CCC Co.
502 (Camp Stony Creek) in Chillicothe in 1934. Please contact Mike Borland
at
Michael.Borland@dnr.state.oh.us.
7. FT. ANCIENT—Between
1933-35, over 200 young African American men between the ages of 18-25 lived
at Ohio’s Fort Ancient while working on 56 projects there. One of the
projects involved created drainage culverts, tiles, and head wall to stop
the ponding of water from many areas of the site. After 70 years of use many
of the clay drainage tiles have collapsed so in 2005 Save America’s
Treasures granted funds to study these sites and replace those with modern
drainage materials.
However, the best-preserved culvert was saved as an educational tool and
commemoration of the work of those young African American men and a Ohio
Historical Marker was placed on the site in April 2007 and pans are underway
for a dedication in 2008 as part of the 75th anniversary.
8. Greenhill, OH
— This New Deal created community has held a number of activities to
commemorate the 75th Anniversary. They include:
a. Lecture on the Writers Project and the authors that participated.
b. Hosted the Society of Architectural Historians to tour Greenhills as part
of their annual conference
c. Greenhills was chosen by Preservation OHIO as oe of the most endangered
areas statewide in regard to historical preservation.
d. Fourth of July parade and tour of the Community Building. The town was
also featured in a February 2009 article in the New York Times.
e. Relocation of the Richard Zoellner WPA murals and museum to the original
Community Building Library also known as the “Old Library.” was done in the
fall Lots of volunteer help made this happen to get restoration of space
done.
f. Dr. Greinacher from Univ. of Cinncinati’s College of Design, Art and
Architecture discussed the film, “The City” which explores the urban blight
during the Great Depression and why the government was creating greenbelt
towns for resettling city dwellers.
g. Glory Southwind, childhood resident of Greenhills and now Chicago
resident, has finished a documentary on Greenhills. She is also the past
president of the Nat. New Deal Preservation Assoc.
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