Thursday, March 22, 2012

Wrecking Cincinnati: 1655 Ross Ave

NEIGHBORHOOD: East Price Hill
YEAR BUILT: 1967
USE: School
OWNER: Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education
ASSESSED VALUE: $3,218,770
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: December 2008, following a one-alarm fire two days prior. The building had been open to trespassers and was heavily vandalized.
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: The former home of Quebec Heights School, the building was scheduled to be razed for a new 76,529-square-foot building. The CPS board removed the school from its Facilities Master Plan in February 2012.
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