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North Fairmount, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
North Fairmount is a hillside neighborhood of Cincinnati, climbing west from the Mill Creek valley under the bell tower of St. Leo the Great.
About North Fairmount
Where to stay in North Fairmount
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Beekman Street carries the buses. North Fairmount is residential from top to bottom, and Carll Street, Seegar Avenue, and Sutter Avenue run past houses and yards, so a stay here is planned from downtown. Route 49 covers Fairmount and English Woods, route 27 works the valley below, and both end at Government Square in downtown Cincinnati, where the hotels stand.
Travellers who want dinner within walking distance are better off there, riding back up in the morning.
About North Fairmount
What are the main landmarks in North Fairmount?
St. Leo the Great, dedicated in 1911 by Archbishop Henry Moeller, is a Romanesque basilica-style church whose bell tower rises 104 feet over the roofs of St. Leo Place. Three bells hang in that tower. That street carried the name Trade Street until the parish petitioned the city to rename it in 1927.
Gerhard Lamers painted the interior murals in 1943. The Hillside Trust holds Baltimore Run Preserve on the slope below, just over ten acres of woodland south of Baltimore Avenue between Seegar Avenue and St. Leo Place.
What is the history of North Fairmount?
Fairmount began as scattered farm homes in the early 1800s, and a brewery had opened by 1825, with more beer makers following as French and German families settled the slopes. Italian arrivals came near the turn of the century, while factories filled the Mill Creek valley below. German Catholic families won approval for a parish in 1886, and by the 1920s Fairmount had split into North Fairmount, South Fairmount, Millvale, and English Woods.
St. Leo School opened in 1927. English Woods opened as federal housing in 1942, named for David English, and streetcar route 18 climbed the hill until Cincinnati dropped it in 1951.
Where is North Fairmount?
East Westwood lies north, Millvale northeast, and South Fairmount south, with the Mill Creek valley dropping away east of Beekman Street.
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Updated September 2026