I have had a strange week, with Monday being Memorial Day and also Taste of Cincinnati, but I'm not complaining. I'm blessed to be on this side of glory one more time. Speaking of glory, I'm going back to the glory days. As in Sunday, October 29, 2017. I had a rare opportunity to tour a part of Walnut Hills as part of the Cincinnati Preservation Collective's series of neighborhood walks.
The C.H. Burroughs house on 1010 Chapel Street was designed by Samuel Hannaford, best known for his design of City Hall and the iconic Music Hall.
This was also the home of Cincinnati's first mayor, John Mosby.
Things really kicked off with a letter published in a national newspaper in the 1800s that portrayed African American women in a negative light. James Jacks of the Missouri Press Association responded to that letter that would call black women into action.
In turn, women's clubs would form in Cincinnati, and that meeting resulted in what is today the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. This organization would ultimately purchase this home and had it paid of in 1946.
This home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and also served as a boarding house for single black women coming north from the Deep South.
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