Just north of downtown on a hillside, and originally served by an incline trolley, Mt. Auburn was Cincinnati’s original hilltop suburb – the first area outside the basin to which the city’s residents migrated. Interstates 71 and 75 are easily accessible, with downtown just being five minutes south.
Beginning in the late 1970s, many hillside townhouses, which had been largely abandoned, were renovated. Besides the hillsides, other residential areas provide a wide variety of housing styles and prices from small to very large single-family homes, historic mansions (including the William Howard Taft Home Site, a U.S. historical landmark), and mid-size apartment buildings, many of which were built to serve employees of the neighborhood’s Christ Hospital and nearby doctors’ offices. Mt. Auburn is also home to a Bible seminary, television stations, and other institutions and commercial offices.
Mt. Auburn is bordered by Corryville on the north, by Walnut Hills and Eden Park on the east, by Over-the-Rhine and Pendleton on the south, and by Clifton Heights and Over-the-Rhine on the west. Mt. Auburn contains a portion of five census tracts (17, 23, 25, 33, and 34) included in the Empowerment Zone.
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