Eckstein School in Glendale now used as cultural arts center
Betty Francis was a student at Eckstein School, which was across the street from her home in Glendale.
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Betty Francis was a student at Eckstein School, which was across the street from her home in Glendale.
The Eckstein School in Glendale will see new life as a cultural arts center, while St. Mark Church in Evanston is on its way to receiving local historic landmark designation despite an outstanding demolition permit.
Glendale residents celebrated a big win on Tuesday after the Cincinnati Preservation Association announced it would buy the historic Glendale Eckstein School.
The former school in Glendale narrowly avoided being partially demolished in order to be turned into a nursing home.
St. Mark Church in Evanston. Credit Nick Swartsell / WVXU Marye Ward, 60, has spent her whole life in Evanston. She can tell you about a time when the streets weren't bisected by I-71, about a community where everyone seemed to know everyone else, the shops that lined Montgomery Road and the bustling Catholic church called St. Mark that, for her and her family, was at the middle of it all. Ward has never been Catholic, but attended school at St. Mark starting in third grade when her public elementary school ran out of room. She says the sense of warmth at the church's masses and community eve...