Taken for Granite?

Large granite stones quarried in Milford, Massachusetts in 1887 were originally cut for the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building at Fourth and Vine, an important local example of Romanesque Revival architecture designed by Henry Hudson Richardson. After the building was destroyed by fire in 1911, thousands of its ornamental and structural granite elements were hauled to Cleves, Ohio by the Cincinnati Astronomical Society for a planned observatory near the present location of Mitchell Memorial Forest. When that observatory was never built, the stones remained in storage until 1979, when the Cincinnati Astronomical Society donated some of them to the Hamilton County Park District for a shelterhouse at Mitchell Memorial Forest, and the Park District acquired all remaining stones in 1984 for later use as fountain elements, benches, and garden accents at Glenwood Gardens.

Woodlawn, Ohio · United States