Corner of Freeport and Campbell

 

This is the corner of two alleys. The wider alley (to the left), Campbell, is actually a twenty-foot wide back street. The other alley is just a one-block long alley named Freeport. I suspect Freeport will disappear someday soon. There once stood on this small block, 16 buildings that included a significant church, maybe a hundred residences and a dozen businesses. Gayle Smith now owns it. He demolished several buildings, and now Findlay Market is doing some raised bed gardening here. This property is on a very visible corner (Elm and Liberty), it will be on the streetcar line and I suppose it could be a major redevelopment spot.

The auditor's map of the area:
 

1703 Elm, last year, now gone and planted with okra:

In this 1996 aerial you can see 7 buildings that are now gone:
 

Alley Granite Stones

Baschang and Thurber Alleys:
 

[where: 222 West Fifteenth Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202] behind

this is an overgrown forgotten corner of OTR:

Charisma

 

Cuzins:

 

Nobby Back Door

 

Granite pavement

 

Notice how the large flat slabs are located where people /carts would cross the alley.