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4 unusual facts about Downtown Cincinnati


Butterfield Center

The Butterfield Center is a New Brutalist structure in downtown Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Fire Museum

The fire museum is housed in a restored 1907 firehouse, the Court Street Firehouse at 315 West Court Street (near Plum Street in Downtown Cincinnati).

Downtown Cincinnati

All but one of the twenty-five tallest buildings in Cincinnati are located in Downtown Cincinnati.

It is especially crowded following games at the adjacent Paul Brown Stadium and Great American Ball Park, the stadiums of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds.


Bellevue Hill Park

The park can be seen in the video It's Not My Time by 3 Doors Down when they are standing on the spiderweb stage high above Downtown Cincinnati.

Flying Pig Marathon

While the course usually varies from year to year, it generally involves running through downtown, Northern Kentucky, and eastern suburbs along the Ohio River.

National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio

Downtown Cincinnati is defined as being all of the city south of Central Parkway, west of Interstates 71 and 471, and east of Interstate 75.


see also

Interstate 74

In the state of Ohio, Interstate 74 runs southeast from the Indiana border to the western segment's current eastern terminus at Interstate 75 just north of downtown Cincinnati.

Mike Leake

On April 18, 2011, Leake was arrested by the Cincinnati Police for shoplifting six American Rag T-shirts worth $59.88 from the Macy's store in downtown Cincinnati.