Neff Avenue Steps

History

These steps, historically known as the Denver Avenue Steps, were among those repaired in the late 1980s by Cincinnati City Maintenance Workers. The crew was so proud of their craftsmanship that they left a signature in the wet cement, 'Public Step Brothers' inside a star, though city officials required them to stop the practice. The steps sit on the western hills near the former estates of the Swiss-descent Neff family, whose two nineteenth-century stone mansions stood on opposite hilltops above what is now Glenway Avenue. Source: Walking the Steps of Cincinnati, Ohio University Press, 2014.

Neff Avenue #1210 & Glenway Avenue #2514, Cincinnati, OH