Earlier this month, Queen City Survey posted a piece about Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's demolition of three houses at , a historic area known as "Vernonville".
Many wondered what the plans were for the site, so I'm happy to report that there will be, coming soon...wait for it....
A fenced-in parking lot.
Permits were pulled for the project two weeks ago.
One has to wonder what will become of the Vernon Manor now.
Thank you, CCHMC!!!
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Those three buildings were beautiful mansions. What a shame.
Can't there be just one nice area around here? Guess not. What is Children's doing in this area anyway??? They are building and building at their main location on Burnet. Two gigantic garages have just been built there and more land cleared for most likely related office space. I'm sure more will be torn down in the near future.
I can see this new parking lot at Vernon Place as just a temporary fix for them until they build more space at their main campus. Then off they go back to Burnet, and Vernon Place is long forgotten. The damage will be done - permanently.
These houses could have lasted forever. They were in very good shape including the white one with the fire damage (I've seen worse repaired) Even in the condition it was, it could have been used as an excellent training tool/ example of how to build a house or even how houses were built in that period.
This street was the only one like it around. Even though it has a few newer buildings here and there
the feel of the area was still intact. And to think of all the effort and investment over the years put into the Mayfield Clinic house (Heine House) and the Bullock/Wilson/Hauck House and the the Civic Garden center property and the newly saved and renovated American Cancer Society house all maintaining and enhancing the historic character of the area. Too bad there isn't a strong and effective preservation mandate in this city.
These houses were huge, dwarfed by the trees which were enormous. Why couldn't the trees be saved? There weren't that many. So you give up a parking space or two. All of the other houses remaining on the street are converted into businesses. Children's has a very large parking area behind it's building on Vernon Place. The Vernon Manor is closing, they are the ones that could use more parking. Children's has at least four big parking garages around Burnet. This move by Children's is a little surprising, there must be more to it. Are they out of control?
I'll always remember how dark and rich the mounds of buldozed soil were when I drove by Tuesday.
Good grief!
WHAT?
They demolished three historic mansions for that?
I was pretty shocked to hear this too. Surface lots aren't exactly CHMC thing. In a memo they were very adamant in stating that the buildings had severe damage and couldn't be saved. Pretty sad to see those buildings go. I can almost guarantee that if it hadn't been Children's someone else would have demolished those buildings. Sad.
Of course they are going to state very adamantly in a memo that the buildings had severe damage and could not be saved - they wanted to tear them down.
Why would someone else have torn them down? As I recall these properties were all listed together for sale. In fact there may have been more property in the original group. Had they been sold individually the out come may have been much different.
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