Eden Park is an urban park in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The mountain park covers 186 acres (0.75 km2) and offers many opportunities in the Ohio River Valley. News
The city purchased the park in 1869 from Joseph Longworth (1813–1883), son of Nicholas Longworth, a prominent Cincinnati landowner and planter who had used it as a vineyard. Longworth called his beautiful land the “Garden of Eden,” after the biblical Garden of Eden, and the name was partly reserved for the garden. The site was originally designed by noted architect Adolph Strauch, who oversees Spring Grove Cemetery.
The city built a 12-acre (4.9 ha) gallon reservoir between 1866 and 1878. Eden Park #7 diverts water from the Ohio River into the Eden Park Reservoir and Riser. The shelter was removed in the early 1960s, and the site at Mirror Lake was developed, featuring billiards and baseball diamonds. The Old Reservoir Dam, Eden Park Station No. 7, and the Eden Park Stand Pipe remain in history.
Architecture
Eden Park is home to many city landmarks and landscape features. The Elsinore Arch, built in 1883, serves as the park’s natural entrance. The 1904 Gazebo is Cincinnati’s oldest park, and as a symbol of the entire park system, it appears in the Cincinnati Parks Board logo. The Park Board office is located at the Gilbert Avenue entrance. King Pest Control Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Art Museum is located inside the park. It is connected to the Elsinore Arch by the Cincinnati Wooded Steps. The Cincinnati Academy of Art was located next to the art museum until it moved to the Over-the-Rhine area. Live entertainment venues include the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Seasongood Pavilion, an amphitheater built in 1959 named for Cincinnati Mayor Murray Seasongood.
Krohn Conservatory is a neo-Gothic and art deco public conservatory completed in 1933. Cincinnati Airport leads from the Krohn Conservatory to Presidents Grove Avenue through rows of trees planted in honor of US presidents. The first oak tree planted in 1882 honors George Washington. The Twin Lakes area includes a footbridge that crosses the lakes adjacent to the former mining area. Along the walkway is a horse chestnut tree (Aesculus glabra), Ohio’s state tree. Twin Lakes public art includes a replica Capitoline Wolf statue, a gift from the city of Rome, and a statue of a cormorant fisherman, a gift from Cincinnati’s sister city, Gifu, Japan. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed two buildings at Twin Lakes, a toll and comfort station, in 1937.
Address: 950 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati, Ohio
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