Peeble's Corner Historic District
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Peebles' Corner Historic District is a registered
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
surrounding the intersection of East McMillan Street and Gilbert Avenue in the neighborhood of Walnut Hills in
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on November 14, 1985. Beginning in 1883, the northeast corner was the site of the first branch of the Joseph R. Peebles' Sons Co. grocery store. The name Peebles' Corner caught on with the public when the store owners persuaded conductors to announce their store as a stop on Cincinnati streetcars. The intersection served (and still serves) as a key cross-town transit transfer point in the city. The intersection had previously been called Kay's Corner, after the W. L. Kay & Co. grocers on the southeast corner.Cincinnati Magazine - Google Books
/ref> Peebles' grocery store closed in 1931 at the height of the Great Depression. The Orpheum and Paramount theatres once stood at Peebles' Corner. Established in 1909, the Orpheum was the first playhouse built outside of the city center. The Opheum provided vaudeville entertainment then showed silent films. It was closed in 1952 and then later demolished. In the 1950s, businesses at Peebles' Corner declined further as white flight blighted this urban core. In the 1960s, blight was exacerbated by the riots of 1967. The Peebles' Corner Historic District was listed in the
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on November 14, 1985. By 2009, several proposals had been aired for restoring Peebles' Corner. One vision of the Walnut Hills Area Council is for the city to acquire 10 to 15 buildings, and selectively tear down half. Resources would be concentrated on the buildings scheduled to become anchors in the district.Building Cincinnati: Peebles Corner rejuvenation could begin early next year
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See also

* The Aperture, a restaurant in the district * Harriet Beecher Stowe House, one-half mile north on Gilbert Ave.


References

{{Authority control Historic districts in Cincinnati Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Hamilton County, Ohio Walnut Hills, Cincinnati