Welcome to Columbia Tusculum - Named one of Cincinnati Magazine’s 2010 Best Places to Live!
Columbia Tusculum was named one of the area’s Ten Best Places to Live in Cincinnati Magazine’s August Neighborhood Watch issue. We were one of only two neighborhoods within the City to be named. Others were in Northern Kentucky, Hamilton County and the northern Suburbs.
Columbia Tusculum site for June 2011 Greenarama Home Show
The First Annual
2011 Greenarama Home Show
in Cincinnati’s oldest neighborhood, Columbia Tusculum.
When: June 17-19 and June 24-26
Where: Strafer Street (behind Starbuck’s)
The first home show of its kind, Greenarama will feature custom Townhouse Style Green homes built by some of the area’s finest home builders: Andrew James Builders, Black Diamond Construction, Carroll Custom Builders, Mann Daly Homes by Osterfeld Construction, and Pinnacle Custom Building Group.
Each home will be eligible for a 15-year, $500,000 tax abatement and will feature green building products, Energy Star appliances, fantastic views and proximity to local eateries, bike trails, easy downtown access, and more. All homes in the show will be built pursuing LEED for Homes (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification by U.S. Green Building Council. www.greenarama.org
Neighborhood News
What is that construction around the Parkway with street closures and when will it be done?! What happened to the Eastern Ave Post Office? What’s else is going on at Eastern Ave and Columbia Square?
For answers to these questions and other current neighborhood information, go to “Neighborhood News” on this website: http://columbiatusculum.org/community/neighborhood-news/ You can also get there from the left hand Menu above.
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2011 Columbia Tusculum Events
Columbia Tusculum Community Council and Columbia Tusculum Business Association have a full slate of events planned for the year to promote and celebrate our neighborhood. These are great places to meet your neighbors, have fun and support the community. Stayed tuned for further details on each.
If you’d like to get involved and help out – we need you now! See details in “Get Involved” in the menu above.
Flying Pig Water Station – May 1
Columbia Tusculum will once again take charge of staffing the Mile 21.5 water station for the Flying Pig marathon on Sunday, May 1.
See the whole spectacle of the race from a front-row seat in front of the Carnegie Center, 3814 Eastern Avenue. Plan to arrive by 8:15 AM to see race leaders pass by.
Greenarama Home Show June 17–26
The first home show of its kind, Greenarama will feature custom Townhouse Style Green homes built by some of the area’s finest home builders to meet LEED certification standards. (see above for details)
C-T Go-Green Summerfest – June 18
The Columbia Tusculum Community Council is sponsoring development of a community garden at the foot of Strafer St. Osterfeld Construction is generously allowing use of undeveloped lots for the garden and terracing the area for garden beds.
A neighborhood party at the Green Dog Cafe is planned to celebrate the new community garden and the greening of Columbia Tusculum during the Greenarama. The party will start about 4:00 p.m. with face painting and activities for the kids. Appetizers and wine tasting will continue into the evening til 10 p.m. with a live band and fun for all.
Green Dog will host and generously donate any proceeds from the event to the Columbia Tusculum Community Council for use in neighborhood projects.
Veteran’s Memorial Garden Barbeque & Neighborhood Party – summer TBD
The Veteran’s Memorial Garden will repeat the success of its 2010 barbeque and neighborhood party. The Strader Street garden (just west of Riverview East Academy) continues to grow and thrive as community garden and environmental classroom. Proceeds will go into improving the garden to benefit youth groups and veterans working at the garden.
HOLIDAY STOP-n-SHOP December TBD
SHOP LOCAL!
Come check out local artisans and shops coming together to offer an alternative to the MALL MADNESS!
The Columbia Tusculum Business Association will again sponsor a Holiday Market at Columbia Square. Get your holiday shopping done early. A dozen or more vendors will set up shop at the Square with items ranging from Aveda products, local discount coupons, purses, embroidering, “green” items, music, fun and much much more!
Stay tuned for details…….
Housetrends Magazine profiles 2010 CT Home Tour houses – and their owners
Want a glimpse inside of historic and new construction homes in Columbia Tusculum?
The August 2010 Housetrends Magazine cover story does just that, with a colorful profile of nine of the homes on the October, 2010 Home tour.
Housetrends did a great job of capturing the beauty of our distinctive homes – and the diversity of the people who call Columbia Tusculum home. We’re proud to have over two hundred years of homes in the neighborhood and on tour, starting with an 1804 home and going right up to 2008.
We’re also proud of the range of people we attract. Housetrends dispeled the notion that Columbia Tusculum is a neighborhood of mainly young professionals. We certainly have many of those. But we are attracting all age groups, as shown in this article with home owners from their 20′s to 60′s and all walks of life.
You can view the digital edition at: www.housetrends.com/Housetrends/Cincinnati/September-2010/Different-Strokes. Click on the thumbnail pictures for full size and captions.
Columbia Tusculum – The eastside river community where everything old is new again
We are Cincinnati’s oldest neighborhood and a place of first’s for Hamilton County. The area’s first pioneers arrived by flatboat and settled here in November 1788. Soon followed the first school in Hamilton County (1790), the first Protestant congregation (1790) now the Columbia Baptist Church, and what is now the oldest continuously inhabited home in Cincinnati (c. 1804).
Today, we’ve become Cincinnati’s newest hot spot for residential and business development. Our charming enclave of colorfully restored Victorians and new, upscale homes and condos attract professionals, young families and empty nesters alike. The new Columbia Square development on Columbia Parkway has attracted new businesses and restaurants, and stimulated business development throughout the neighborhood. We’re home to successful historic building renovations, enjoying a variety of new uses from professional offices to cultural and entertainment venues and residential properties.
Why is Columbia Tusculum newly sought out again? Our hilly east-side neighborhood on the Ohio River offers outstanding scenic views. Our quiet, walkable streets invite living as an urban village, where neighborliness is the norm. We have one the city’s lowest crime rates, second only to neighboring Mount Lookout. Recreation opportunities abound. And it’s all just 7 minutes from downtown!
Come visit Columbia Tusculum and see firsthand the place where “everything old is new again.”
In the meantime, see this neighborhood profile appearing in a 2008 Soapbox issue:
http://www.soapboxmedia.com/features/34columbiatusculum.aspx
And you can view a video of our neighborhood below: