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Price Hill, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Price Hill is a region of western Cincinnati made of three neighborhoods, named for General Rees E. Price, who bought and developed much of the hill.
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Three neighborhoods share the name. East Price Hill, West Price Hill and Lower Price Hill make up the region, and all three are residential rather than commercial. Height was the original attraction.
Wealthier Cincinnatians settled the nearly inaccessible hill country west of the city in the 19th century because it stood high enough and far enough out to escape the pollution and crowding of the inner city. Neighbours ring it on three sides. Sedamsville and Riverside lie south, Westwood and South Fairmount north and Queensgate east.
About Price Hill
What are the main landmarks in Price Hill?
One man's name is on everything. General Rees E. Price bought and developed large parts of the hill, the area took his name in the possessive, and the apostrophe dropped away to leave Price Hill. Faith marks the region.
Price Hill is predominantly Catholic and was an ethnic enclave for Irish and German Catholics both, which is what shaped its parishes and its schools. Older traces lie under all of it. Indian burial mounds and lookout posts were recorded in the area before any of the building, when this was sparsely populated territory.
What is the history of Price Hill?
Before the Symmes Purchase this was Indian territory. The area of Price Hill was sparsely populated in the 1780s, with burial mounds and lookout posts recorded on it, and it lay originally in both Delhi and Storrs townships. Annexation came in two steps.
The eastern part, in Storrs Township, joined Cincinnati when the city annexed the whole township in 1870, and West Price Hill in Delhi Township followed three decades later in 1902. Steamboats and hogs filled the city below. Cincinnati grew heavily populated through the 19th century on steamboat traffic and hog packing, and some of its wealthier people looked west to the hills.
One of them gave the place its name. General Rees E. Price purchased and developed large parts of the hill, which took his name and then lost the possessive to become Price Hill. Catholics settled it after him.
The region became an ethnic enclave for Irish and German Catholics and remains predominantly Catholic.
Where is Price Hill?
Price Hill occupies the hill country of western Cincinnati as East, West and Lower Price Hill, with Sedamsville and Riverside to the south, Westwood and South Fairmount to the north and Queensgate to the east.
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Updated October 2026