Queensgate is a neighborhood in
Cincinnati, Ohio. It sits in the valley of
Downtown Cincinnati and has been dominated by industrial and commercial warehouses for most of its history. Cincinnati's nickname of "Porkopolis" started here with hog slaughtering in the early 19th century.
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History
Queensgate was formerly part of the
West End, Cincinnati known as the Lower West End part of the neighborhood. The Metropolitan Master Plan of 1948, a
City Plan for Cincinnati, called for
slum clearance and
urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighte ...
. Beginning in 1960, large tracts of the historic West End were razed.
The Queensgate I project came out of the 1948 Metropolitan Master Plan. It kickstarted urban renewal in the West End neighborhood, and led to the creation of a commercial/industrial complex, that is known as the neighborhood of Queensgate.
The population was only 142 at the
2010 census.
Main sights
Queensgate is home to
Cincinnati Union Terminal.
From 1884 to 1970, the
Cincinnati Reds
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played at three separate parks at the intersection of Findlay Street and Western Avenue in Queensgate—the last 57½ of those years at
Crosley Field
Crosley Field was a Major League Baseball park in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the home field of the National League's Cincinnati Reds from 1912 through June 24, 1970, and the original Cincinnati Bengals football team, members of the second (1937) an ...
. The former site of
home plate of Crosley Field has been painted in an alley.
Local
Fox
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Twelv ...
affiliate
WXIX-TV (channel 19), owned by
Gray Television
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, is based out of what was formerly the
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), which depicts the harsh ...
School, a majority-Black junior high school.
References
Neighborhoods in Cincinnati
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