Route #4: Camp Washington

The three day weekend gives us a good chance to get a little bit ahead of schedule. Who knows when one of us might jet off to Cancun or come down with the flu and we have to miss a week of ticking off another neighborhood?

Also, this is my first attempt at course planning, so we’ll see how that goes!

Camp Washington is an industrial and residential neighborhood known for its factories, railyards and stockyards. I found this fascinating video on the History and Morphology of Camp Washington.

We will start our run from Camp Washington Chili. Since they don’t offer a vegetarian chili option I can’t really compare it to the other Cincinnati Chili parlors.

I wanted the route to include a good mix of the residential and industrial sections of the neighborhood, so I made sure that we have the opportunity to spend some time winding through the residential streets.

The Machine Flats Apartments at 3301 Colerain are a good marriage of these industrial and residential components—a former factory building converted into luxury rentals. I toured the building soon after it opened as part of a Community Development Corporation Association bus tour.

Another factory conversion in Camp Washington is the American Sign Museum--a cool collection of retro signage.

We’ll also take a look at the site of the former Kahn’s plant at 3241 Spring Grove Avenue. The plant was demolished in 2012 as part of a brownfield remediation program. 

-Kayla