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Avondale, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Avondale is one of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the ground the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden stands on.
About Avondale
Where to stay in Avondale
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden sells admission, not rooms. Cincinnati keeps its hotel trade downtown and along the university edge by Crosley Tower, which leaves Avondale a neighborhood to spend a day in rather than a night, and what its own streets hold is listed housing rather than desks and lobbies. Pick the gate to wake beside.
Downtown puts the other 51 neighborhoods within reach, and Avondale puts the zoo at the end of the street.
About Avondale
What are the main landmarks in Avondale?
The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden carries the neighborhood. Its gardens and enclosures are the reason most of Cincinnati comes north at all, and the rest of Avondale's list asks for a slower kind of attention: Calvary Episcopal Church, First Unitarian Church, the Church of Our Saviour and the Church of the Annunciation. Houses take the remainder.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House and the Henry Probasco House stand on the same register, and Crosley Tower closes the list from the university edge.
What is the history of Avondale?
The record for Avondale is a roll of house names. The Henry Probasco House, the Moses Goldsmith Building, the Hulbert House and McAlpin Bridal Cottage and the Freund-Heintz House each mark a household that built on this ground and was written down for it, and no founding year sits beside any of them. Churches follow the houses.
Calvary Episcopal Church, First Unitarian Church and Grace Church stand on the same list as the houses, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden gave Avondale the one address the whole of Cincinnati knows.
Where is Avondale?
Avondale lies north of downtown Cincinnati, and the grounds of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden make the largest open space the neighborhood holds.
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Updated September 2026