Cincinnati-Old World Tartarian City in Ohio 

I grew up in Michigan but started coming to Cincinnati with my Dad when I was a HS freshman, instantly I fell in Love with this city. I'm 30 now with a family of four, living happily here.

18:54 Cincinnati had a big German population there is a historical neighborhood called over the rhine that was the largest German built neighborhood and most populated outside of Germany. Basically when you mentioned the German stone I thought of this being why, great video man ! I love learning about my beautiful city

I am also a native Cincinnatian. Music Hall was just one of a complex of buildings that was said to be created for the 1888 bicentennial fair of Ohio and the midstates. You can look up brochures from this fair and read about the incredible light displays and 100 foot shooting fountains. Then you can look up the palatial post office building that use to exist and marvel in it’s construction and wonder why it was torn down 50 years after it’s founding.

The more I see the more I believe that many of these buildings are from a previous civilization. I'm a retired construction contractor so I know how much work it would have taken to build them. They didn't do it with horse and wagon and with no heavy equipment, we don't build anything close today because the cost would be astronomical.

We live outside of Cincinnati, and we are educated in art and architecture. The time frame that these buildings were built aesthetic was very important, also we had many skill guilds that had apprentices. We don't have these guilds anymore, they are a lost art. Also, the different styles like the elephant house at the zoo, it was built to look like place in Asia where the elephants came from. and the German style is because it is a German city.

As a native born cincinnatian I have been looking into it's history since my eyes have been opened I see mud flood buildings and a number of tartianian style buildings. This city is definitely older than it's acknowledged founding date of 1788

I was just telling my coworker today how I follow all these youtubers that investigate Cincinnati such as Michelle Gibson, Jon Levi , Jared Booster and others and boom you made this video 🤯. I was born here just moved back after 20+ yrs and when I tell you I’m amazed everyday of the old world architecture just blown away! Also checkout Hughes high school it looks just like many old world structures across the plane! Thanks 😊

There are numerous castle looking structures of the Cincinnati water works. There is a much larger one than shown in Colerain. They’re all façades. It’s a traditional tank inside with a brick or stone veneer. As opposed to the actual castle in nearby Loveland, which is explicitly called a castle.

The reason they could build so fast was simply due to the fact that the weather was absolutely perfect any time they were building. Between the asylums and civil war it's not hard to rewrite narratives...

I never miss a Jon Levi video, very happy RU-vid actually recommended one of your videos to me, very surprised by that!! Just found your channel and I'm making my way threw watching all your videos. Really enjoying you showing the buildings and especially the amazing insides of the buildings. Love your sarcasm and knowledge of history. Well what they tell us is history. Happy I found your channel. I live in York Pennsylvania and I see so many old world structures in my city, just have to open your eyes, its everywhere and its fascinating. I just went hiking and came to an old train tunnel, definitely not built by us. Huge blocks at the base, cut into a Mountain of rock, thousands of brick. Anyway, keep exploring

I'm 20 minutes from Lake Elsinore, California. There's an abandoned castle there that is fenced off. "They" were not masters of their Craft, they were masters of the Physical Realm.

I was blown away when I learned that there were five (5) vertical inclines built to support transportation in Cincinnati back in the late 19th century. Sadly they are no more but the city of Pittsburgh still has a couple that still function. At one time they had seven built!

I am an Ohio historian and am aware of its impressive and often majestic architecture. I say visit Dayton, Toledo, Columbus and Cleveland as well. Midsized cities offer some wonders as well. Canton, Chillicothe, Lancaster, Delaware all reflect your bygone perspective. There were many German immigrants who settled the heartland, bringing with them old world building skills. They were not afraid to recreate the environment they left behind. Cincy was once the richest cities in the USA during the gilded age and produced President Taft. Railroads, industry and river traffic created this urban boom. Ohioans had created an empire the seemed to decline after WWII. German was the spoken language in Over the Rhine for nearly a century. You shouldn't underestimate American ingenuity and creativity. The Freemasons were master architects and Cincinatti could have been the next NYC with an elaborate subway as well. Now it's just another city in the rust belt. "Fly over it-nothing to see here..." I feel our best is yet to come.

Thank you so much for making these incredible videos! You are so articulated and clearly, you and I speak the same language.

Man it must have been amazing to live back then... You were clear cutting forests, draining swamps, building canals and railroads, building massive intricate structures and monuments all over with only a handful of people to help, setting up entire cities worth of buildings and waterways and lighting for fairs that would just be torn down right after, all while farming at home and running your brick factory to supply the absolutely massive amount of bricks that were needed to build everything... despite living in a forest and having tons of wood.

What a place.. Thank you for all your work ! God bless 🗽

Wow great video and photos, and amazing channel dude we are from here and love this stuff

The Suspension Bridge is in fact much older than they want you to know. It was built in 1066 by William the Conqueror in order to move the Normans into Cincinnati, Ohio. There is a street there called Norman Avenue where Normal people still live today and there was a restaurant there called La Normandie, but it went out of business because nobody could afford to eat there. The Normans brought in the Masons who built everything else seen here in the following years. They named a town in Ohio after those Masons. It is called Mason, Ohio and was founded in 1137.

There are so many old world buildings in Cincinnati and nky. I see them in plane sight everywhere!

I used to live in Mt Airy, a northern neighborhood of Cincinnati that is uphill from downtown and the river. Driving up Belmont and Kipling avenues, you see a number of large, opulent mansions, the largest being the Crosley mansion on Kipling Ave. One year, we had to replace our main water line and discovered that it was nearly 7 ft under the street! Not only that, but we ran into some railroad ties at least 4 ft underground. Later, I learned that there was a temporary railroad track built along where the street was that came up the path of the current roads from the rivier. It was used to supply the building of these mansions. When the buildings were complete, they tore apart the tracks and used them as ground filler to raise the road. Over 100 years later, I found some of that "filler" when replacing that water line. Such interesting history!

I wanna say I love your work and I have been watching your work for a month now. I live in Cincinnati and I grew up in the area where these photos where taken. The house that your grand parents lived in looks like it is in the downtown area where I lived.

Cincinnati is by far my favorite city. I got to spend a day walking around the city. The Tartarian buildings were amazing.

Please don’t forget the fact that a lot of free men and fugitive slaves made Cincinnati their home. The workers were trained and very skilled laborers. The black population grew so large in 1829 they had to flee up north, due to race riots overs JOBS. Until the second wave of African Americans that migrated to Cincinnati again because the work was definitely here that would be around the time Union Terminal ( our Hall of Justice) was built. I am a true and true HOMETOWN person. I love this city and it is FASCINATINGLY RICH with so much HISTORY.

Lol wtf did I stumble upon? Is this guy implying that the history of these buildings not what they say?

Me living in Cincinnati, having been taking that place for granted. The architecture is simply commonplace to me.

"The best way to show that you have democracy is a dome." 😂😂😂 Even the elephants can understand this 😅 You are so right 👍

Thanks my friend, another excellent dump of information to open minds and eyes ❤

There’s also some incredible church replica in Covington ky across the bridge from cincy… Cincinnati name itself is Greek. Lots of Greek, German, Italian culture….The original sin city was in Newport Ky… there was a huge prohibition operation going on here with all the tunnels…

The Taft theater too, there's so many places in Cincinnati. I'm going to start posting some on my TikTok page. Thank you for doing this what a great idea

I also live in Cincinnati and have always been fascinated by a lot of stuff around here, thank you for this video

Excellent video thanks for making it 👍 😊

Great video!!

I've lived in Cincinnati my whole life and I agree whole heartedly with this statement! Thank you for making this video!!

I grew up in Norwood.. been kicked out of the historical society for presenting similar history as you... At the 5 minute mark, the building on the horizon is the old penitentiary, which is now Davoue Park in Covington.. That Castle/Arch thing is fishy, it's older than what they say.. City Hall goes down 4 stories with many old tunnels.. never studied the church, but I'm definitely gonna look into it.. I got a security job at Union Terminal just to explore the place. I know that place inside and out.. even the secret areas.. Man, I'd love to walk around Music Hall. There's gotta be some old hidden areas in there... it reminds me of an old Moor building that's been remodeled and modernized.. The Art Museum was supposedly a rich dudes mansion way before it became the Art museum... Don't know much about the zoo and I've been all through the subways.. Hey man, let's share some history.. If you look up the era of all these "great fires" around the country, they all happened around the same time frame.. it's a cover up and a real-estate grab..

Like Cleveland and Detroit, don’t blame the people living there, blame the ppl running the city whom it’s citizens’ elected in hopes of improving all 3 cities for decades and they failed and allowed all 3 to rot and decay for half a century. Thankfully all 3 have been making progressive changes that have shown a lot of positive results and I’m sure all 3 cities, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit can and will return to greatness.

It certainly is strange that we can’t construct such beautiful buildings today.

6:07 I remember when I was a kid going on field trips to the museum in Cincinnati, before it was inside Union Terminal, you would pass it on the way. I always thought that’s weird and out of place so I researched to to figure out why the face of a castle was there. At that time almost 40 years ago I found out that in all major cities there are sometimes fake houses ,building fronts, and other inventive ways to hide structures needed for the running of the city but that are just eye sores. This was no different back in the 1800’s. It just so happened that my dad worked with the Grandson of a guy who was part of the planning team to figure out the best way to hide the value house since it was right at the entrance to the most beautiful park around at that time. At that time there was a Shakespeare festival at Music hall and the backdrop was painted with a castle and one of the other guys got inspired by that and they decided on the arch. Also the “weathered” look from the old picture is again because it’s made of old weathered stone.

Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky: The Midwest & The South. 💯

@ 14:45 the city appears to be severely flooded. Amazing video man!

Much luv from Tripp City Ohio 💜💚

Cincinnati, sooo cool 😎

Great video

I live literally around the block from Music Hall. It's unbelievable in real life. It's massive.

These photos were phenominal. WHAT is that emotion on your grandparents faces?! Kinda shook me, like this mix between excitement, bewilderment, and an extreme caution that gives me goose bumps.....

I’ve been binge watching your videos, they are fantastic. I also follow Old World Explorer and his content is awesome too. I grew up in Ashland, Ky and I know now that all along the Ohio River that the powers that be have been lying to us about our history.

One thing I've considered and would like folks to think about is that though some structures may appear ancient, such as the bridge, the reason for such apparent age might be that such large civic construction projects required such a large amount of material to build. Were they able to produce new brick/block at the pace necessary to keep up with such projects? Easier to acquire those materials by deconstructing the buildings that were already here, many of which were likely in sore shape. A quick way to make them disappear so that a new history could be written. Hence the push for so many large-scale projects in a relatively short time period.

The art building can be seen driving up interstate 75 up on the hill. Some industrial buildings closer to the river have bricked up tall windows the building is huge.

Another beauty...

The underground tunnels of Cincinnati can be its own entire video

Some of those buildings look like power stations. They are perfectly symmetrical in every detail, and are acoustically proportionate . Otherwise why are ceilings so high. They probably used sound, water and the ether to produce power. The domes and antennas, copper clad stuff etc

Great stuff, thanks for the upload. Curious: I have had an interest in researching things related to the ancient city of "Norumbega" Most maps indicate that was possibly in the NE region of America. However one map from 1587 notes the Cincy region was the home of Norumbega. (David Rumsey Map Collection - Monte Urbano map of 1587) In addition the map has a notation of the peoples in this area. "here si homini are great runners and they run to the park of the fairs that hunted and they dress their skin" Funky translation but thats where i got this morning before coming across your content. Im subbing for anything new. Thanks again.

That Bridge is supposedly the practice run for the Brooklyn Bridge.

nice style. keep it up. easygoing, simple and very effective.

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Look up the historic mansions around Cincinnati. The caretakers of these houses definitely have a lot more to add to Cincinnati’s history than you can find anywhere else.

People in the 19th century were more competent than people today. Now it takes twice the time to build something that it took when I was a kid.

I went to Elder on the west side…”castle high school”similar to Hughes. Grew up inner city…. Now North of Cincy up in Middletown…. Sorg Mansion in Middletown is a must see…. As is the City Hall in neighbouring Hamilton Ohio, which the populations at the time of construction don’t add up.

That building you talked about at around 24min in was the old Odd Fellows building. It was torn down in like the 20s

The intro music so uplifting epic its quite hard for any musician to came up with such music in a short period of time it feels weird how the epic music genre fits the old world heritage stories and films

I drove thru Cincci years ago and remembered all the skinny narrow houses I seen and wondered why they were built that way.

I remember eating in long worth hall at the old spaghetti factory. Boy that was fancy in side. So fancy. I lived in the country with my grandparents . So I did not see places like that alot. Fabulous it was

@9:30 That building reminds me of the Justice League's 70s cartoons! What am amazing structure.

great video!! And you have this kind of structure in every european or german town. A Postoffice, a law court or palace of justice, a city hall , administration buildings, a museum,a university, a police office, asylum, hospital, hotel, bank, a mansion... just everywhere and everyone "not seeing the forest for the trees" (german Proverb), not seeing the obvious.

when i was in elementary school, the building was modern, one lvl, short windows, normal ceiling height. when i went to high school, it was an old building by the edge of the mountain (people outside of our region call it the escarpment) and i was blown away at how high the ceilings are, the tall windows and their explanations to "keep the building cooler" sounded odd because you`d think they`d always want to build in a manner where the building would be coolest....the library was placed in the centre when i attended but when it was first built it was the gym. a gym in the centre? i was used to it being at the far end in my other schools...

What an amazing city..all those stairs going up to the 1st floors again....no way those buildings could have been built in the time frames dictated..

Suspension cable bridges came before the re-ability to make structural steel cable of that size, by about a 100 years. It wasn't until 1968 Bethlehem steel could produce "up to" 5 1/2" structural strand. Honestly I think this new world came with the shelves stocked, don't know where the shelves are but it explains how all of America had a model T the day after it was shown for sale and 3-4 delivery trucks every couple days keep a Walmart stocked to the brim haha.

The entire process of thought, procurement of supplies, building of the Robeling bridge is heavily documented.

I am so happy you did this video! I am from Louisville which is also so mud flood history I wish could make video on.! I lived in Cinci also, MT Adams on the INCLINE. Hyde park etc all the buildings for certain here before narrative... All places I have lived in... Knoxville UNDERGROUND The Old City! New Orleans... Atlanta underground I could go on and on all the places I have lived and been to and why windows underground etc... makes sense..................

We had multiple inclines going in Cincinnati as far as railways.

I blame Carl Sagan for all the fires 🔥

Nice video my friend, so thank you for sharing. I find Cincinnati Central Station looks exactly like the Bakerlite radios of the 1920-1950's. The similarities are uncanny. An extension of the radio theme helps lend explanation to the proliferation of the antenna too.

I grew up and lived in Cincinnati until about 14 years ago when I moved to Naples Florida. My kids and grandchildren still lives there. I still visit often but I won't visit in the winter anymore 😂

My home is full of mysteries and lists of old world markings!

Excellent video..💯🌹

wow man just wow!!!!

Cincinnati has a very big German background...project paperclip unloaded lots to that area..

Anyone in cinci area interested in checking out some of these sites? Get in touch.

I would look up the writings of John Ruskin, who started a firestorm of great architectural ‘revivals’ in the mid 1800’s. Make things look old on purpose. Add postbellum economic booms for towns in the north, and the large influx of Germans immigrants in that period (hence the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood) bringing old world craftsmanship, to what was then the west. Cincy had the perfect storm to pull this off. 12hr round the clock building shifts, abundant rail and river access for materials.

Can you do a video on the tunnels that run under these citys Hartfird ct has one you can kayak ?!

Great one.

Could it be that England had already been here since 1500 developing this country. And once America took over. Our government wanted credit for it. Because, we do know that England sent people over here. To settle this. We are told people came on a ragged wood ship to escape England. But I believe they sent people that they chose to populate America. Or people volunteered . And they were the ones working on the infrastructure since the 1500 or earlier. Because we don't know what kind of tech England had . You know new tech is invented and isn't revealed until decades later or even longer. Some body was here that new something

Mind blowing

@14:59 I'm looking at the old skyline and it seems so odd. The 2 big buildings, Carew tower & the pnc building, are on Vine at 5th & 4th respectively. Pete rose way runs along the river, but in this picture there seems to be several more streets south of where the city hits the river today.

I just stumbled upon this channel and I can’t tell if you’re an architect channel or a truth soldier but I’m interested 🧐 Edit: we just moved to just southeast of Cincinnati, so I definitely have a new excitement to go exploring downtown✨

Holmes high school in northern Kentucky use to be a castle.. jus a few miles from Cincinnati.

Very well done video

The architect of many if the buildings in this video was Samuel Hannaford

It took the Greeks 10 years to build the Pantheon in the second century, I think they could have whittled off six years of construction in 1700 years of technological advancement to build that church

At about 17:00 as you follow the vertical railway at the bottom and parallel is that a banner that reads: Furniture carpets 283 885 Is that a phone number???? In the 1880s?

What has me most concerned is that at 17:16 at the bottom of the vertical rail setup, there appears to be an advertisement for a company that does interiors, furniture, carpets etc. And it appears to have a phone number on it. Im not sure when the photo is supposed to be dated to, but the telephone isnt even invented until 1876 let alone is it widely distributed or used until even later. Just thought that was strange.

In he background of the roebling bridge it looks like maybe the monastery on mount adams.

There’s many underground structures here too if they’d of finished the subway system Cincinnati would have been bigger than New York City

9:50 The Cincinnati Union Terminal looks like The SuperFriends Hall Of Justice.

I really hope you do a Philadelphia episode I love what you do my man. 💯💯💯

It all exudes wealth. Ohio was a very wealthy state connected to the world by the rivers.

Interesting fact: One of the artists from The Super Friends cartoon ( Justice League ) used Union Terminal as The Hall of Justice and it has been ever since :)

I live in Cincinnati. There are actual photos of the union terminal being built. You can easily find them online. It was a rail terminal

Phantastic photos of the old world. Thanks a lot to Lucius. By the way from which region in the world you are coming from, sir? Well, in former times so called civil engineering constructive works (every house, church, tower, bridge, monastery, tunnel, railway embankment, mill, chimney, castle/lock, burg etc. )... was build to lift the magnetic and static field of our so called earth/soil (look at the so called Schuhmann frequency - 8 Hz until infinite); The lower frequencies were used to heat and cool these buildings for example or to use the electricity for motors (in Europe mainly 3 phase current). The higher frequencies were used to transport information (conscious and subconscious)e.g.telephone or telepatie. The civil engineering constructive works were connected with this field by soil(mainly water, rivers (in germany we also call a river ein Strom, but Strom also means electricity)) and by air (so called magnetic carpet) to close the circuit. By air the range was only round about 2 miles but by water round about 20 miles(The lower frequencies). This work was outstanding and you will find it everywhere in the world. Look at the so called world exhibitions/expositions/fairs all over the world etc.; The higher a so called building was, the higher was the so called tension. The fater the walls were, the more electricity/magnetic field you were able to lift. The better the soil was (hill, mountain, underground with stones), the more magnetic field was in the soil. Therefore you can see these so called buildings on a hill or near a canyon or a falling terrain etc.. To move the magnetic field the tension was necessary of course. The laws are the same like in our electricity today. These destructions in my opinion were also absolutly necessary to hide our heritage and to cut off our soul from the nature/earth. Sorry for my horrible English. Outstanding work Lucius. Great! Greetings from Bavaria

That large window atop music hall is called the rose or something. Not sure why.

The only thing I can knowingly comment on is Union Terminal. My grandfather was a traveling salesman in the 30's and 40's, and was actually one of the first of many passengers coming and going through this terminal. I remember stories from when I was a little girl from my grandparents about the building of the terminal. My grandmother grew up not far from there. The neighborhood where she grew up is next to what is now I-75. I had the chance to talk to my great uncle about some of the structures around that area. Across the area which became I-75 was the hill the old Central High School (now Cincinnati State College) was built. Before it was built, he would take his dogs up on that hill, and no building was there. That would have been the early 1900's. My great uncle was born in 1895.Some of my family has been in this area for almost 200 years, now, and thanks to the TV miniseries, Roots, I talked to a few of them in my quest for genealogy info. Those conversations often included stories about the structures around town. I am from Hamilton, Ohio, which is just north of Cincinnati. There was a greasy spoon restaurant which had pictures of various buildings and the bridges there. They had a series of pictures of the High Street bridge, from a ferry to a covered bridge, to a stone structure, to what it is now. One picture I saw had a tent town for Civil War soldiers in the background.