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17-549: Betts House may refer to: Betts House (Cincinnati, Ohio) , the oldest brick house in Ohio Betts House (Yale University) , a mansion owned by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Betts House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

34-536: A descendant of William Betts, created a coalition of concerned citizens in an effort to save the house. Two years later, in 1990, they were able to secure the home, and undertook a costly renovation to restore the property to livable condition. For several years following the renovation, the Betts House served as a small apartment complex. The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio (NSCDA-OH) became

51-534: A jazz establishment named after the famed Cotton Club in Harlem, called the neighborhood home. Unfortunately, that era did not last for long. By the 1950s, the city of Cincinnati was struggling as residents once again left to nearby suburbs. In an effort to revitalize the downtown area, the City Council devised a plan centered on highway construction. The Kenyon-Barr neighborhood, home to around 25,000 low-income people,

68-462: A new industrial district known as Queensgate. In 2023, the Cincinnati city council issued an apology for the decision to tear down Kenyon-Barr, describing the decision as "rooted in institutional racism." Prior to this demolition, the neighborhood was the subject of significant photographic documentation, and in 2017, many of these photographs were placed on public exhibition for the first time at

85-535: A plot of land in Lebanon; however, the deed proved to be faulty. They then struck out for Cincinnati. There, William Betts obtained a 111-acre plot of land as repayment for a debt owed to him by a local tavern keeper. Construction quickly commenced on a two-room Federal period farmhouse that was completed in 1804. Over the following decades, four generations of Betts family members called the Betts House home, and raised over two dozen children within its walls. To accommodate

102-401: Is one of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio . It sits in the valley of Downtown Cincinnati and is dominated by industrial and commercial warehouses. Cincinnati's nickname of "Porkopolis" started here with hog slaughtering in the early 19th century. In 2010, the population of Queensgate was only 142. But as recently as 1958, the neighborhood, formerly part of West End and known as

119-585: Is the oldest brick home in Ohio, and the oldest remaining residential structure in downtown Cincinnati. Originally situated on 111 acres (45 ha), the home was once at the heart of a farm and brick yard. Over time, as the city expanded, the country landscape surrounding the home transitioned to an urban environment. Today, the Betts House is a central structure in the Betts-Longworth Historic District in Cincinnati's West End neighborhood. In 1795,

136-585: The Cincinnati Museum Center . In early 2024, community leaders proposed reconnecting Queensgate to downtown Cincinnati through a reconstructed street grid, made possible by the larger project of constructing a new companion bridge for the Brent Spence Bridge . As of February 2024, discussions about this possibility were ongoing. In late May 2024, the proposal was approved. Queensgate is home to Cincinnati Union Terminal . From 1884 to 1970,

153-759: The Cincinnati Reds played at three separate parks at the intersection of Findlay Street and Western Avenue in Queensgate—the last 57½ of those years at Crosley Field . The former site of home plate of Crosley Field has been painted in an alley. Local Fox affiliate WXIX-TV (channel 19), owned by Gray Television , is based out of what was formerly the Harriet Beecher Stowe School, a majority-Black junior high school. 39°6′N 84°32′W  /  39.100°N 84.533°W  / 39.100; -84.533 This Cincinnati -related article

170-535: The "Lower West End" or the Kenyon-Barr neighborhood, had a population of 25,737, estimated at 5% of the city's total population. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, pursuant to the Metropolitan Master Plan of 1948, a City Plan for Cincinnati , and under the guise of slum clearance and urban renewal , the predominantly African-American neighborhood was razed to make way for the new Interstate 75 and

187-422: The growing family, a number of changes had to be made to the original structure. Between 1804 and 1864, the house more than doubled in size. During this period of expansion, the city of Cincinnati was also growing, and the house's surroundings became an urban neighborhood. In 1833, the original 111-acre plot was subdivided when William's youngest daughter Eliza turned 21 (as stipulated by his will in 1815). By 1839,

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204-669: The home's original owners, William and Phebe Betts, left their home in Rahway, New Jersey to pursue opportunities in the west. The first leg of their journey ended in Brownsville, Pennsylvania , where the Bettses lived for a number of years. In 1800, the family decided to resume their push westward on a flatboat, travelling down the Ohio River . Upon arriving in the region, the Betts family attempted to obtain

221-431: The last of the Betts descendants, moved to hilltop suburbs, such as College Hill . The once densely populated West End suffered immensely from depopulation; however, it was not long before African Americans began to migrate to the neighborhood. By the beginning of the 20th-century, the area had become the cultural center for African Americans in Cincinnati, and was a major source of nightlife entertainment. The Cotton Club,

238-421: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Betts_House&oldid=932722482 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Betts House (Cincinnati, Ohio) The Betts House, constructed in 1804,

255-474: The neighborhood had been incorporated by the city of Cincinnati. Expansion continued until nearly every plot of land in the West End was developed, and the population increased to 30,000 people per square mile. By the 1870s, the neighborhood had become dense, while the air was polluted due to its close proximity to the meat packing industry at Mill Creek . During the following decades, many of the residents, including

272-642: The sole owners of the property in 1994. In 1996, the Betts House was opened to the public as a historic house museum, with exhibits and programs focused on the built environment and early Cincinnati history. The home also serves as the headquarters for the NSCDA-OH. Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, American Guide Series, The Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, page 228. 39°06′28″N 84°31′20″W  /  39.1078°N 84.5221°W  / 39.1078; -84.5221 Kenyon-Barr Queensgate

289-470: Was selected for the construction of I-75. Between the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost 1,000 structures were demolished in the name of “urban renewal” leaving many of the neighborhood's African American residents homeless. In the decades that followed, the West End fell into a state of decay. Many of its older homes, including the Betts House, lay vacant for much of the 1970s and 1980s when urban renewal plans for Queensgate failed. In 1988, Martha Tuttle,

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