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Coordinates: 39°9′0″N 84°31′12″W

Clifton, Cincinnati
Clifton is a neighborhood in the north central part of
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.[1] The population was 8,304
at the 2010 census.[2]

The area includes the Ludlow Avenue Shopping and Dining

District. Clifton is situated around Clifton Avenue, north of
Dixmyth Avenue, approximately three miles north of
Downtown Cincinnati. Several historic buildings and homes
remain in the neighborhood. Clifton was developed in large
part due to the expansion of the street car system in the
1880s-1890s.[3]
Clifton is a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Contents
History
Culture
Images
References
External links

History
Clifton was incorporated as a village in 1850.[4] The village
took its name from the Clifton farm, which contained 1,200 Map of Clifton
acres (4.9 km2) of hills and dales.[5] In the nineteenth century,
mansions set in extensive grounds of gardens, parkland and
woodlands dominated the northern section of Clifton, farther from the city. Their gates and gatehouses were spaced at
intervals along Lafayette Avenue. In the southern section, denser settlement flanked a growing business district along
Ludlow Avenue, centered on its juncture with Clifton Avenue.

Many of the estate grounds were designed by the landscape designer Adolph Strauch, who served as the Superintendent of
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum in the 1850s, who later revised plantings when estates became public parkland,
such as Eden Park and the 89 acres (360,000 m2) of Burnet Woods, the former property of Jacob Burnet.

The estates have found new uses in the twentieth century, or have been demolished, like Alexander McDonald's baronial
mansion designed by Samuel Hannaford, the pre-eminent estate architect in later nineteenth-century Cincinnati; it was
demolished in the 1960s to make way for an annex to the Clifton School: only a 150-year-old yew (Taxus cuspidata
capitata) on the grounds of Fairview-Clifton German Language School[6] and the carriage house remain.[7]

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The city of Cincinnati annexed Clifton in 1893.[8] The University

of Cincinnati relocated to Burnet Woods Park. Today the
University is located in Clifton Heights, University Heights,
Avondale, and Corryville, neighborhoods that surround Clifton.
This entire area is often generically (and incorrectly) referred to
as "Clifton" despite being several distinct and separate
neighborhoods. Hebrew Union College, which settled near the
University, and the Sacred Heart Academy in Clifton helped to
contribute to the intellectual and bohemian atmosphere of the
neighborhood.

Culture
The Ludlow Avenue business district has been designated
Cincinnati's first "Main Street neighborhood" in a program
sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the
Gaslight District contains many independent shops,
restaurants and a movie theater specializing in independent and
foreign films. Side streets are lit using original gas lamps, hence
the name "Gaslight District." There is a great diversity of retail
outlets and dining and drinking establishments situated along Skyline Chili parlor on the corner of Clifton and
Ludlow and intersecting streets. Ludlow Aves.

Clifton is situated on the hill overlooking Northside, Cincinnati.

The historic Ludlow Avenue district was recently included in one episode (http://www.hulu.com/watch/132794/who-do-y
ou-think-you-are-sarah-jessica-parker#s-p1-so-i0) of "Who Do You Think You Are", in which Sarah Jessica Parker traced
her ancestry on the maternal side of her family. Speaking on camera that she is revisiting her old neighborhood of Clifton,
Parker was filmed walking down Ludlow Avenue on a wintery day and entered the Clifton branch of the Cincinnati Public
Library on Ludlow. Inside the library's small reading room, she and a local historian discussed the ancestry of the
maternal side of her family.

Images

Ludlow Avenue Gaslamp Charles B. Russell Burnet Woods

Business District House in Gaslight
District

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References
1. Generally, when Cincinnatians refer to Clifton, they include its surrounding neighborhoods.
2. "Statistical neighborhood approximation" (https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/linkservid/B497DDAD-E93B-5987-7
2072BC1CD84942B/showMeta/0/). Clifton City of Cincinnati. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
3. Historic Preservation and Research Resources (http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cdap/pages/-3780-/)
4. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio: Their Past and Present (https://books.google.com/books?id=TdUyA
QAAMAAJ&pg=PA421#v=onepage&q&f=false). S. B. Nelson. 1894. p. 421.
5. Clarke, S. J. (1912). "Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2" (https://books.google.com/books?id=-hB6AA
AAMAAJ&dq=cincinnati%20the%20queen%20city%20clarke&pg=PA529#v=onepage&q=cincinnati%20the%20quee
n%20city%20clarke&f=false). The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 529. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
6. (pdf file) (http://www.glaserworks.com/Fairview/Revisions%20For%20Blackwell.pdf) Archived (https://web.archive.org/
web/20060825005534/http://www.glaserworks.com/Fairview/Revisions%20For%20Blackwell.pdf) 2006-08-25 at the
Wayback Machine.
7. Clifton Cultural Arts Center (http://www.cliftonculturalarts.org/carriagehouse.html) Archived (https://web.archive.org/w
eb/20080704073537/http://www.cliftonculturalarts.org/carriagehouse.html) 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine.
8. Clarke, S. J. (1912). "Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2" (https://books.google.com/books?id=-hB6AA
AAMAAJ&dq=cincinnati%20the%20queen%20city%20clarke&pg=PA528#v=onepage&q=cincinnati%20the%20quee
n%20city%20clarke&f=false). The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 528. Retrieved 2013-05-20.

Miller, Zane L. Vision of Place: The City, Neighborhood, Suburbs, and Cincinnati's Clifton, 1850-2000 (Columbus:
Ohio State University Press), 2001.

External links
Clifton Community (http://www.cliftoncommunity.org/)
Clifton Cultural Arts Center (http://www.cliftonculturalarts.org/)
Clifton Branch library (https://web.archive.org/web/20070203012922/http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/branches/clifton.h
tml)
Clifton Neighborhood, Cincinnati, Ohio (U.S.) (http://flagspot.net/flags/us-ohcft.html) at Flags of the World

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