Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Over-the-Rhine?

Music Hall is the neighborhood's largest name, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Opera both play there, which fixes Over-the-Rhine's evenings to a concert calendar. Findlay Market answers by day. Ohio has no older public market in continuous operation, and its stalls set the district's weekly clock. The Main Street Entertainment District takes over after dark.

Cincinnati's museum names stand outside the district's edges: the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Taft Museum of Art, and the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

What is the history of Over-the-Rhine?

Ohio Rhinelanders settled the basin first. Their building stock survived in such quantity that Over-the-Rhine counts among the largest and most intact urban historic districts in the United States, and Findlay Market has traded through the whole of it. The mid-20th century brought African-American and Appalachian families into the same streets.

Later marketing renamed one stretch the Gateway Quarter, the bars and dining rooms on Vine between Central Parkway and 14th Street.

Where is Over-the-Rhine?

Over-the-Rhine fills the urban basin north of Central Parkway, its grid of Cincinnati streets running up toward Findlay Market.