David Sherman of the West End wants to know what really happened to the old Cincinnati ... The library started moving in in Dec. 1870, but the work wasn't completely finished until 1874.

Cincinnati's public library ... on Feb. 25, 1874, with a speech by George Hunt Pendleton, who had been the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1864. Stepping into the old Public Library ...

Undeniably, those old photographs of Cincinnati’s long-gone library—built in 1870, demolished in 1955—are gorgeous and inviting. We who admire them enviously, however, never had to spend hours inside, ...