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History
The Ohio Avenue Steps are among the most historically evocative in Cincinnati, long serving as the main pedestrian route for Findlay Market shoppers descending from the Bellevue Park heights to the streets of Over-the-Rhine below. The Bellevue Incline, also known as the Ohio Avenue Incline, once rose alongside this corridor from McMicken Avenue to Ohio Avenue above; built in 1876, it operated for 50 years before closing after 1926. When the incline closed, these steps became the primary path connecting the hilltop to the neighborhood below. Source: Walking the Steps of Cincinnati, Ohio University Press, 2014.
Ohio Avenue, #2126 & Ohio Avenue, #2134, Cincinnati, OH