Cincinnati Parks, East Price Hill Business Alliance & Price Hill Will present In the Park after Dark: Outdoor Movie Night on May 26, starting at 7:30
If you are looking to buy a home, you can't miss the Spring edition of the Price Hill Showcase of Homes. This event allows homebuyers to view dozens of Price Hill homes that are for sale through a coordinated neighborhood-wide open house event.
The Showcase takes place on April 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. You can stop by the offices of Price Hill Will to pick up a map or you can download and print your own here if you are on Facebook, or here if you aren't.
The event is free and there will be refreshments available at Price Hill Will. For more information or to receive a map via e mail, call Matt Strauss at 251-3800 x105.
The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived. The Grand Opening Celebration for the Elberon Apartments is scheduled for April 12 at 10 a.m., and everyone is invited.
This historic structure has been transformed into 37 one and two bedroom units for seniors 55 and up, through a partnership with Price Hill Will, the Model Group and others. The rehab has taken only 14 months to complete and the place is looking outstanding.
Anyone interested in rental information should e mail Brickstone Properties. You can follow the project on Facebook, too.
A Price Hill pioneer, “Uncle Peter” Stryker, was one of the leaders of the so-called Squirrel Hunters who helped defend the heights of the neighborhood from the threat of attack by Confederate troops during the Civil War. The homeguard defenders manned cannons that were placed on the brow of the hill, ready to fire on the rebel raiders if they attempted to cross the Ohio River. After the war, Price Hill boasted its own Grand Army Post of Civil War veterans with a large membership. The post was named after Captain George B. Whitcomb, a Price Hill native who died during the war.
Newport's popular Bayou Fish House has expanded to Price Hill with a new store at 3108 Price Avenue, in the heart of the new Price Hill Community Entertainment District. The store opened on January 23rd with a Grand Opening celebration on January 31st at 11am.
Bayou features made-to-order fried fish in their signature homemade batter. They're known for their Catch of the Day special, which can be found on their Facebook page daily. Oh, and their cole slaw is legendary.
Owner Grant Gieseler chose Price Hill because of the community enthusiasm and the assistance that the neighborhood offered in making the expansion possible.
They haven't been open long, but the response has been outstanding. Customers have been lining up and the reviews have been great. Stop by today for some great fish. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week.
Warsaw Avenue was originally a mud road, which was later “paved” with wooden planks to make it more navigable in wet weather. Eventually the toll road, Warsaw Pike, was paved with macadam and the grade of the road was lowered—the earlier turnpike was much steeper than the road is today. Tollgates were located at Warsaw and Grand Avenues, and later at Glenway Avenue and Vaughn Road (now Rosemont Avenue). There were double tollgates at Mueller’s Corner (where Glenway, Cleves Warsaw Pike, and Guerley Road meet). This corner was originally called Gazley’s Corner, named for an early settler, Allen Gazley. When Mueller’s Roadhouse opened at the corner, it became known as Mueller’s Corner; then, when the Prout Building was built in 1928-1929, it became Prout’s Corner, as it is known today
(Courtesy of the Price Hill Historical Society)
(CINCINNATI) – The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of WAR, by Canadian playwright Dennis Foon, will perform at Prospect House, 682 Hawthorne Ave. in Price Hill. The show is open to the
public and will take place on Friday, January 13, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
Cost is $4 for adults, and $1 for children aged 11 – 18. Call the above telephone numbers to reserve a seat. There will be snacks and a discussion afterward.
WAR examines how aggression and violence permeate youth culture as four young men struggle with the pressures of competitiveness, anger and vulnerability.
According to Playhouse Director of Education Mark Lutwak, “WAR is a powerful and rich play that explores the ways in which boys use warfare as a metaphor for their lives: in sports, with their peers, in academics and in their relationships with others, particularly women. Contemporary ‘manhood training,’ as laid on young boys by popular culture, adults and peers, is wildly out of sorts with the kind of maturity that we expect and need from the our next generation. This play raises important questions that will be discussed long after the performance is over.”
The playwright uses invented language to stand in for harsh slang, creating a poetic and highly theatrical experience.
Performances will include a facilitated talkback to help students articulate and respond to the issues of the play.
CAST: Greg Mallios (Shane), Aram Monisoff (Tommy), Carlos Saldaña (Brad), Ben Sullivan (Andy) and Lormarev C. Jones (Facilitator) from the Playhouse’s Bruce E. Coyle Intern Company will appear in WAR.
Mark Lutwak will direct. Other members of the production team include Veronica Bishop (Set Designer), Chad Phillips (Costume Designer), Sebastian Botzow (Sound Designer), Jonn Baca (Fight Director), Lormarev C. Jones (Choreographer) and Sydney Kuhlman (Stage Manager).
On January 19, 2012, students from Roberts Cincy After School program will have their class projects on display at Warsaw Project Gallery.
The Cincy After School program involved photography and fashion design. Each student created a body of photographs and a finished outfit fabricated from pre-existing garments which they altered and embellished with additional elements by the end of the project. Students began the project with a topic of interest to them as a reference point for the remainder of their work in the program. Themes could include music, popular culture, sports, celebrities, international culture, geography or periods of history, among others. Final student projects consist of their photographs, collage work and actual fashion designs.
Students were given guided writing exercises at the beginning of each unit to prompt creative thinking and research about their chosen reference point. Once students developed a basic level of understanding of their reference point, they were given digital cameras to use during the class session to produce a series of photographs of their immediate surroundings. Their goal in recording and describing their surroundings was to collect visual examples of the various qualities they have identified in their research to date.
Once students developed an adequate design concept, they began sourcing material for final garments from a stock of pre-existing garments and fabric swatches. Students began laying out their designs on tabletops and a limited number of dress forms using safety pins, Velcro or other simple fasteners. Students were led through a series of exercises which required them to experiment with a variety of designs which assisted with developing a final design which best translated the visual qualities they were seeking to represent in their work. As students completed each design variation, they photographed their work to document and reflect on the process. Students produced a final variation of their design work which was photographed on a dress form and potentially on a live model.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at
Warsaw Project Gallery
3116 Warsaw Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45205
Light refreshments will be served
There are lots of things to do and see in Price HIll during the holidays this year. We thought of some things you won't want to miss.
Nov. 25 10am-noon along Glenway and Warsaw. The Thanksgiving Day Parade is a long-standing tradition. Thousands of residents and visitors line Glenway and Warsaw Ave., from Ferguson to St. Lawrence.The parade starts at 10am on Thanksgiving day, so grab a lawn chair and blanket and claim your spot early!
You may have noticed garland and lights being strung around the lamp posts in St. Lawrence Corner or holiday scenes being painted on storefront windows throughout the neighborhood. It's all part of the 7th Annual Holiday on the Hill (Dec 2-4). This event is packed with entertainment, and if you're someone who likes to give thoughtful, unique gifts (or if you don't want to wrestle your way through mall traffic), you will definitely want to do some shopping here.
Dec. 2nd starting at 6pm at Seton High School - Light the Hill. Light the Hill kicks off the weekend. If you've been to this event in the past, there is a different look for the event shall we say? Hint: we're going to need more lights for the tree. Plus Police Chief James Craig will do the honors. Later in the evening there will be the Illuminating the Arts Gallery Walk and Price Hill Author's Book Signing (both new events).
Dec. 3rd starting at 10:30am Throughout Price Hill - Holiday on the Hill. Head on over to the Holiday on the Hill page for the full details and to plan your event route! Holiday on the Hill Schedule>>
Cincinnati City Council has unanimously awarded Price Avenue Community Entertainment District status. This designation will allow restaurants and bars a faster, easier and cheaper way to get liquor licenses with community approval.
This will fast track development along the newly thriving Price Avenue Business District, adding momentum to already impressive growth. Projects going on along this corridor include:
The Incline Village condos and restaurant.
The renovation of Olden View Park, one of the best view parks in Greater Cincinnati.
The total rehab of the Elberon apartments, one of the West Side's most iconic buildings.
The Flats apartments and Gallery.
Bayou Fish House coming to Price Hill.
These projects are welcome additions to an area that includes great anchor institutions like the Queen's Tower, Holy Family Church and School, Corner BLOC Coffee and Cincinnati's most romantic restaurant, Primavista.
Price Hill homeowners are so excited about the neighborhood and their homes that they needed a movie to tell their story. Five families sat down with Price Hill Living to tell us - and you - why they bought a home in Price Hill.
Each family tells about how they looked all over the city, the suburbs or across the river and decided that Price Hill was the place for them. Between the proximity to everything, the schools, the architecture, the value, the sense of community and the neighborhood's green reputation, they found that there's no better place to call home than Price Hill.
Let them tell you themselves why Price Hill Living is more than just a phrase.
The Fall Price Hill Showcase of Homes will take place on Sunday, September 18 from 11am to 3pm. The Showcase is the twice-yearly event where homes for sale in Price Hill hold open houses at the same time. Realtors from agencies all over town list some of the most outstanding and affordable homes for sale in Price Hill.
The Showcase is a great opportunity to see what's out there for sale in a market that is a can't miss for buyers. To find out which houses are open, stop by Price Hill Will (3724 St. Lawrence Ave.) or any participating home to pick up a map - and some refreshements, too! The event is free.
To see a map and schedule of houses participating in the Showcase click here. If the file is too large for your computer, e mail us at matt@pricehillwill.org and we can send you a copy.
To learn more about home buying in Price Hill, check out our Homes section on this website.
End your Price Hill Summer with arts and culture! We have three days of fun events for you to enjoy:
August 18: The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs are the final installment in our Swinging Sounds of Summer series. Join us at 7:00 on the lawn at Seton High School for some dancin' jug band music. Skyline Chili will be there, too! Bring a lawn chair if you don't feel like dancing. The concert is free.
August 19: Illuminating the Arts in Price Hill is an evening full of arts that will take you around the block from the Warsaw Project Gallery, the Flats Gallery and Corner BLOC Coffee. Find out who won the Price Hill: Looking Up photo contest. Bid on silent auction items. Enjoy wine by Henke Winery. This event runs from 6:30 to 8:30 and it's free, too!
August 20: The Price Hill Cultural Heritage Fest starts at noon and runs until 7pm at St. Lawrence Corner at the intersection of Warsaw, Enright and St. Lawrence. This event features international music, arts and food. We're excited to announce that Christian Moerlein and Hudepohl are the beer sponsors and Henke will be doing wine tastings. Get your groove on to Afro-Beat, Latin Jazz, German folk-dancing, Blues and Folk music. Arts and crafts are for sale, too. Bring the whole family.
The scheduled music and dance line-up:
12:00 The Queen City Zapatistas
1:00 Blues In The Schools
2:00 Prospect Entertainment
3:00 The Image Afro-Beat Band
4:00 Donauschwaben Schuhplatters
5:00 Poco Loco
6:00 Magnolia Mountain
These events are sponsored by Price Hill Will, the Price Hill Arts CAT, The East Price Hill Business Association, Robin Imaging, Fairy Dust Ltd., Rockin' Rooster Comics & Games, Noble Electric Co. Inc., Hart Pharmacy, Prima Vista and Team Cycling and Fitness.
There will be three categories for submissions to the contest:
Natural Price Hill - photos of non-human made objects within Price Hill. Nature photographs that contain human made objects that are not the subject (i.e., are in the background) of the photograph will be considered under this category.
The Architecture of Price Hill - any buildings or close-ups of buildings in Price Hill. Pictures highlighting the views from Price Hill will be considered in this category unless they focus specifically on nature. (The judges will make the determination.) All human-made objects that aren't buildings will fit into this category as well.
The People of Price Hill - photos of people in the neighborhood, whether residents, business people or people who happen to be in the neighborhood when the picture is taken.
All of these photos must be taken in Price Hill. Entries are due by the end of business on July 29, 2011. All submissions must be electronic and sent via e mail to matt@pricehillwill.org For contest rules, click here or e mail matt@pricehillwill.org
Six finalists (two for each category) will be announced and displayed at the Price Hill Cultural Heritage Fest on August 20. Judges will then choose a Grand Prize winner, winners and runners up of each category. The judging panel will be made up of three renowned local photographers, Michael Wilson, Brad Smith and Maurice Mattei. As many submissions as possible will be displayed on this website.
Photo by Michael Wilson 2010
This year's Cultural Heritage Fest will feature incredibly talented local musicians performing everything from Afro-Beat to Bluegrass. Great food, drink, art and more will make this a sure to be energetic event. Keep an eye on the Cultural Heritage Fest page for updates (under Neighborhood Traditions). You can also receive updates by finding the event on Facebook -Price Hill's 2nd Annual Cultural Heritage Fest!
Poco Loco will kick off the 2011 Swinging Sounds of Summer Concert Series. They were one of many great bands that performed at the Price Hill Cultural Heritage Fest last year, so we can attest this will be a great show.
This concert will also feature the Price Hill Women's Art Show and Sale.
7pm at Seton High School, 3901 Glenway Ave. (Front Lawn). Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
Cost: FREE
Save the date for Price Hill's 2nd Annual Cultural Heritage Fest! New and exciting features of the festival include the Sculpture Challenge
The Challenge: To create a 3D sculpture that interprets the diverse cultural heritage represented in Price Hill. Artists are encouraged to inventively use recycled materials, which will also illustrate our community’s commitment to a sustainable and renewable lifestyle.
Intent to Participate:Deadline is June 24, 2011 and should include your contact information, any inspiration/reference images from the specific cultural heritage chosen as well as an artist sketch.
Please indicate if you intend to donate your work to the Silent Auction with all revenues benefiting the Price Hill Arts CAT (Community Action Team).
Send your intent to participate to: Beth@pricehillwill.org TODAY!
How to Get Started: Attend a Meet and Greet on June 28, 6:30pm at the offices of Price Hill Will to share your ideas, construction techniques, etc. At that time, you may pick up some FREE recycled resources from PHW's remodeled homes. Pat Bruns will schedule studio space at the Warsaw Gallery across from District 3 and be available to help turn your idea into sculpture!
Other Details:The final works will be installed at the Price Hill Cultural Heritage Fest on August 20, 2011 near St. Lawrence Corner. To highlight the arts in Price Hill, we encourage the artist to plan for some of the final assemblage of the work to be completed on-site at the Fest. Sculptures should be approximately 3’ to 6’ tall.
Perks and Prizes:Artists’ names will be included in all marketing and advertising for the Fest. The works will also be included in the annual PHW Photography Contest at the Warsaw Project Gallery. The “Best of Show” that most creatively illustrates an aspect of our diverse culture will be awarded a $100 cash prize.
Contact Pat Bruns at pbruns@cinci.rr.com or 513-310-8953 with questions.
Incline District, is a trio formed of three musicians who write music in Price Hill and Westwood. The band is named after the many Incline cars that used to travel up and down the hills of Cincinnati, and one particularly obvious one that was situated in Price Hill. Members of Incline District include; JW Mitchell, Frederik Kire, and Asher Kirkman. They take pride in the fact that they live and have always lived in a metropolitan city center that supports the arts and its own bustling artistic scene. We interviewed their frontman JW Mitchel.
"In Price Hill we live, commute and work inside a diverse artistic polish that makes cities wonderful and beautiful," says Mitchel. "With Incline District we as musicians try to absorb and showcase that artistic polish and portray our interpretation of that architectural, geographic, and social contrast into our songs." Incline District operates and fronts Cincinnati’s original indie-hipster music scene, however their shows always seem to be attended by a vast cross section of people who simply like the music and who also seem to like being around people who are slightly different from themselves. At most shows one will find doctors, DJs, hipsters, and bankers smoking cigarettes outside the venue with a few leather jacketed punks and the band itself. Many of these groups also find themselves in deep conversation with their parents or relatives unknowingly, "who then attempt to provide us excellent feedback to what we're are doing wrong. One of the benefits of living on the Westside of Cincinnati means ample relative spy resources and ample fixed conversations with pseudo marketers of Incline District as our large families always seem to outnumber the crowds themselves." They play songs in their own style, "which we are attempting to call 'electrified folk garage pop rock with drums' might be too long." "Our shows are worth it as viewers will always find a completely original set of music, lighting effects and featured artists taking part in our small organic version of what makes music and performance interesting; the act of watching something being created that hasn’t been created before and the performance of that in Cincinnati." You can catch up with Incline District on Facebook. Their next show is at Northside Tavern's Fashion Show on April 16th. They will also being playing up in Columbus on June 5th for the Columbus Art and Music Festival.
Although work has already started, the official construction kickoff at the historic Elberon Apartments will be held on February 23 at 10:30. Vice-Mayor Roxanne Qualls, funders and neighborhood dignitaries will be on hand to launch the exciting rehab of this massive project.
The building is being renovated for senior apartments by the Model Group in partnership with Price Hill Will, a neighborhood community development corporation. Construction is expected to take one year.
The event is open to the public and there will be refreshments. Due to lead and asbestos abatement, tours of the building will not be available, so be sure to dress for the weather.
Price Hill Will is sponsoring their 2011 Price Hill Pro Realtor Training class on March 5. The class will teach residential real estate agents the ins and outs of selling in the Price Hill market. Included in the training are modules on the history of the neighborhood, the arts, business development and environmental initiatives.
Agents will receive three hours of CABR certified continuing education credit. Breakfast and coffee/tea will be provided. The event is free to Realtors, but they must register in advance. To register or to learn more, contact Matt Strauss at matt@pricehillwill.org or 251-3800 x105.
Price Hill Will is a non-profit community development corporation that host this and many other programs dedicated to making Price Hill great. You can visit their website at www.pricehillwill.org
Today Price Hill Will purchased the Elberon, the historic apartment building at the corner of W. 8th Street and Elberon Avenue. This long-time eyesore is slated to be fully restored to its former glory in early 2012.
The Model Group is partnering with Price Hill Will to turn this building into 37 units of senior apartments. Abandoned homes on either side of the building will be demolished to create a driveway and greenspace.
Five funding sources have come together to make this $7.4 million project possible.
To follow the progress of this project or to share your memories and photos of this wonderful building, join The Elberon Facebook page.
This year marks the 6th annual Holiday on the Hill, a great tradition combining arts, crafts, music and Christmas shopping. All over Price Hill events will be taking place to usher in the holiday season.
We begin on Friday with the lighting of the Price Hill Christmas Tree at Seton High School. Carl Kissinger, President of Warsaw Federal Savings and Loan will flip the swtich to kick off the event.
Saturday and Sunday will feature art sales, caroling and cookies with Santa. This year ArtsWave is sponsoring a number of great performers throughout the neighborhood.
Be sure to keep your eyes open for window painting on our neighborhood businesses. This year's theme is Holiday Movies. There's even a scavenger hunt!
For more information, go to our Holiday Traditions page and look for Holiday on the Hill. See you on the Hill!
Price Hill gains our strength from our businesses, schools, non-profits and other agencies. We are made up of well-known anchor institutions as well as best-kept secrets. Whether you are a one room operation or a large employer, you make up the fabric of our community.
Pricehillliving.com tells the story of that community. If you've got a question about Price Hill, we've got an answer. This website aims to be the online face of Price Hill.
Price Hill Living allows you to access a very specific, core market that you can't find anywhere else. This is targeted marketing at the finest level. If you would like to see your name on this website and reach people that have an interest in Price Hill, contact Matt Strauss at 251-3800 x105.
