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| Description | This site along Queen City Avenue in Cincinnati’s South Fairmount neighborhood is the current-day home to the Orion Charter School, but was formerly the site of the St. Bonaventura Church, one of the earliest major catholic parish churches constructed on the west side of Cincinnati. Constructed in 1868, the beautiful Romanesque Revival-style Church towered over Queen City Avenue and was a major center of activity in South Fairmount for almost 150 years, but sadly saw attendance and membership dwindle in the late 20th Century, leading to the closure of the parish in 2004. After the Parish was closed, the church property was bought by the Orion Charter School, who subsequently demolished all historic structures on the property, including the Parish House, Sanctuary, and original school building, retaining the much less significant later school building, replacing the sanctuary with a very mundane and rather unattractive structure that houses the school’s gymnasium, a sad and unworthy replacement of the magnificent historic church. Today, the steps to the sanctuary and the newer of the two parish school buildings remain, but they pale in comparison to the beauty of the church and parish facilities that once stood here and were one of the most notable and historically significant areas of South Fairmount, which was once a dense collection of charming buildings that resembled a village in the mountains of Europe, but today has lost quite a bit of its historic urban fabric, and, unfortunately, continues to lose buildings at an alarming rate, with no designation or protection being afforded to the remaining historically significant and character-defining historic resources, and a general attitude of apathy towards preservation by the population and institutions in the neighborhood, as well as the city and state governments, which have viewed it more as an impediment to fast-flowing traffic and as a pass-through corridor for suburban residents on the west side, rather than as a the destination and place it should be viewed as. |
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| Source | Old St. Bonaventura Catholic School, South Fairmount, Cincinnati, OH |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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