Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Wrecking Cincinnati: 1275 1st Ave

NEIGHBORHOOD: West Price Hill
YEAR BUILT: 1898
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Gurudath Kamath
ASSESSED VALUE: $4,500
ORDERS: March 2007, for fence, cornice, windows, and litter. Ordered vacated and barricaded in October 2007, following a foreclosure. In May 2008, the orders were reissued for the fence, cornice, windows, soffit, and litter. In October 2008, orders for the soffit and windows were reissued to the bank.
CONDEMNED: November 2009, to a new owner, citing a collapsing chimney, an unsafe rear deck, siding, cornice, gutters and downspouts, windows and doors, unsafe steps, exposed wiring, defective mortar joints, paint, weeds, and trash.
HAZARD: July 2010.
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program. Demolished using Moving Ohio Forward funding.
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