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Metadata
Object ID |
1930.05.16.023 |
Object Name |
Newspaper |
Collection |
MARIEMONT HISTORY |
Published Date |
1930/05/16 |
Caption |
1930/05/16 Mariemont Messenger p1 |
Summary |
Issue covering the Recreation Building Dedication (May 17) and various other aspects of Mariemont: Pg 1: Dedication of Rec Building & Community Ball to be held Saturday (b/w photo of Rec Bldg, program for ceremony); Mariemont Masons receive dispensation to act as Lodge; Campfire Girls news; Mariemont baseball beat Indian Hill; Mariemont PTA will consider 'Art in the Public School'; new DAR chapter to be installed; Community Chest update. Pg 2: 'Thomas J Emery; Who He Was And What He Did': extensive bio, b/w photos of TJ Emery, MM Emery, and T Emery (the Elder), business ads for T Emery, Estate & Money Agent (early 1840s) and T Emery & Sons, Lard Oil (1857). Discusses his business acumen & developments in Cincinnati, and MM Emery's continuation of these works (cont'd p 7). Pg 3: 'The Trustees of the Thomas J Emery Memorial' (b/w photos of RA Taft, JR Schindel, CJ Livingood, T Hogan Jr, WA Draper, Rev FH Nelson); 'The Stadium Site Will Provide A Complete Future Recreational Plant; Swimming Pool And Football Gridiron Included': Importance of the Rec Bldg in providing for the Physical wellbeing of Mariemonters; description of amenities (bowling alleys, pool & billiard tables, target range, rooms for 'manly arts' of self defense, boxing, wrestling & fencing, play rooms for 'boisterous' Boy Scouts & 'decorous' Girl Scouts/Camp Fire Girls, lounges for relaxing); outdoor facilities for tennis, football, track & field, swimming pool and 'sand bed' (never built); describes a model of this Stadium Site in the basement of the Inn (cont'd p 7). Also b/w photos of stone bridges & formal gardens in Dale Park, Church, Concourse, Resthaven, Hospital, and Carillon, all belonging to the TJ Emery Memorial. Pg 4: Editorial about the need for recreation being answered by new Rec Bldg; calendar of local events; Mariemont & Terrace Park social news, ad for Mariemont Inn Garage. Pg 5: 'Dale Park Section is National Exemplar in Housing' with b/w photos of Cellarius Group on Beech St and Honeymoon Cottage over Maple St; ad for the Inn with b/w photo; program for the Carillon, May 17 & 18; classified ad selling 3845 Oak St. Pg 6: 'A Description of the Recreation Building': b/w photos of OE Rupp, WW Parks, and Judge Simon Ross. Discusses architectural style of each group in Mariemont, then covers everything about the Rec Bldg: foyer, auditorium, kitchen, men's and women's game rooms and parlors/lounges on main floor; Public Library, utility rooms, bowling alleys, rifle range, dressing rooms, & wrestling, boxing, and playrooms in the basement; Boy Scout and Girl Scout rooms are at separate ends of the second floor, inaccessible to each other; a stairway to the clock tower, each landing has a small room. Describes the working of the clock, fire resistence and alarm system of building, emergency lighting, tunnel under Plainville Rd (with lights on timers activated by the tower clock), electrical & theater system for 'motion pictures' with and without sound, impressive radio installation. Lists the contractors responsible for work on the building. Ad for the Church, timetable for Cincinnati Street Railway. Pg 7: Continuation of Emery article from p 2: M Emery's establishment of the Thomas J Emery Memorial, its purpose, beneficiaries, and Trustees. Continuation of Stadium Site article from p 3: more about the high school section of the model, colorfully descriptive memories of Chestnut St and Wooster Pike and the rest of the Dale Park area and the mess it all was in the first days of construction, recognizes the effort to bring Mariemont to fruition. Letter from de Gersdorff, the Rec Bldg architect, declining the offer of space in this edition of the Messenger. B/w photo of the Rec Bldg in an ad. Pg 8: Social news from Fairfax, Newtown, and Plainville. Pg 9?: 'Nine Hole Golf Links Included': description of the Mariemont Golf Course, b/w photo of the club house; 'Mariemont Church Unique Structure': description of the Church, origin of the stone roof & floor; 'Ball Diamond Is Listed As "Another Reason for Living in Mariemont" ': describes the Dogwood Park fields; 'There's Music In The Air when The Bells Of Mariemont Ring Out': the Carillon w/ sketch, b/w photo of W Arthur Justice, carilloneur & Church organist; 'A Herd Of Prize Guernseys': cattle and Resthaven; 'Our Public Buildings Are Second To None': b/w photos and descriptions of the Dale Park Fire Station and Dale Park School. Pg 10?: 'Old Community House Becomes Masonic Hall': History and transformation of the temporary school to Community House then Masonic Lodge; history of the Masons in Mariemont. 'The Views From The Mariemont Concourse': two b/w photos of views across the fields. 'Commodious Inn And Garage For Convenience Of Visitors': b/w sketches & brief descriptions of Inn & Garage. 'Provision Has Been Made For Industrial Zone': plans for Westover District, architect's conception of the Fountain Way Washer Company. All pages: many ads from local businesses and suppliers of materials & labor for the Rec Bldg. For pp 11? & 12? see 1980.02.331. |
Title |
Recreation Building Dedication Number MARIEMONT MESSENGER |
People |
Cook, Jack deGersdorff, George B Dorward, Andrew L Draper, George J Draper, Walter A Emery Family Emery, Mary M Emery, Thomas, Sr Emery, Thomas J, Jr Hogan, Thomas Jr Hopkins, Isabella F Jones, Earl C Jordan, E Boyd Jordan, Marie Justice, W Arthur Livingood, Charles J Lyon, Robert J McDaniel, Rev Asa Nelson, Reverend Frank H Parks, Warren W Rupp, Oscar E Schindel, John R Strieder, Louis Taft, Robert A Townsend, Col Leo |
Search Terms |
Architects Beech St Businesses Carillon Cellarius Group Chestnut St Cincinnati History Cincinnati Street Railway Concourse Construction Dale Park Dale Park Fire Station Dale Park School Dana Group DAR Dogwood Park Fairfax Fire Department Gilchrist Group Historic District Honeymoon Apartment Hospital Madisonville Maple St Mariemont Comm Church Mariemont Golf Course Mariemont History Mariemont Inn Mariemont Inn Garage Mariemont Library Mariemont Messenger Masons Neighboring Communities Newtown Oak St Old Town Center Organizations Parish Center Parks Past & Present Residents Pedestrian Tunnel Plainville Plainville Rd PTA & PTO Real Estate Recreation Resthaven School, Temporary Scouting Sports Stadium Tennis Courts Terrace Park Thomas J Emery Memorial Unrealized Projects Utilities Village Life Westover Industrial Estate Wooster Pike |