Explore Cincinnati

The Tyler Davidson Fountain, also called The Genius of Water, stands on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati. Dedicated in 1871, the bronze fountain was designed by August von Kreling and cast in Munich; a female figure with outstretched arms rises above scenes showing the uses of water. The square around it hosts concerts and events.

Plum Street Temple is a Reform synagogue in downtown Cincinnati, dedicated in 1866 for the congregation of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a founder of Reform Judaism in America. James Keys Wilson designed it in a Moorish Revival style inspired by the Alhambra, with two minarets and a rose window; the interior is seen at services and on tours booked in advance.

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge crosses the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. Designed by John A. Roebling and opened in 1867, its 322-metre main span was the longest in the world at the time, and its stone towers and cables foreshadow his later Brooklyn Bridge. Walkways run along both sides.

The Cincinnati Art Museum opened in 1886 in a Romanesque Revival building by James W. McLaughlin in Eden Park. Its collection of more than 73,000 works spans about 6,000 years, from antiquities and Asian art to European and American painting, and the Cincinnati Wing, added in 2003, shows art made in or for the city since 1788.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site is the Greek Revival house in Mount Auburn, built in the 1840s, where William Howard Taft, the 27th president and later chief justice of the United States, was born in 1857 and grew up. The National Park Service shows furnished family rooms and exhibits, with a visitor centre in the Taft Education Center next door.