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Lytle Park Historic District is a historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Roughly bounded by 3rd, 5th, Sycamore, Commercial Sq., and Butler Sts. in downtown Cincinnati, it centers on Lytle Park. In 2014, Western & Southern Financial Group, owner of many properties within the Lytle Park Historic District asked the city to remove historic status of several historic buildings. The company hopes to demolish sections of the district in order to build new office space. ==Lytle Park== Lytle Park has a storied history and represents one of the oldest areas in the city.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=National Register Historic Districts )〕 Originally a hardwood forest, the park and its vicinity was the early site of Fort Washington, built in 1789 to protect early settlers of the Ohio River town from Indian attacks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Fort Washington )〕 The site next served as the homestead of the prominent Lytle family. Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory William Lytle II built his house there in 1809, about ten years prior to the completion of the neighboring Martin Baum mansion (now the Taft Museum of Art).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Taft Museum )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Museum History )〕 The land then known as Lytle Square〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lytle Park )〕 was purchased by the City of Cincinnati in 1905 and Lytle Park was dedicated July 6, 1907.〔(Other Parks part 2 )〕 The bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln facing the entrance of the park was commissioned by the Charles P. Taft family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Art & Architecture in the Parks )〕 The unusually beardless statue is the only public monument to an individual ever produced by sculptor George Grey Barnard. The statue was dedicated amid great fanfare on March 31, 1917, by former president William Howard Taft. The adjacent U.S. Marine Corps Memorial is a granite boulder with bronze plaque and Marine emblem atop a globe. It was dedicated in 1921.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=U. S. Marine Corps Memorial, (sculpture) )〕 When an expressway was planned to be built downtown, Lytle Park faced its possible demise. Former Mayor Charles P. Taft went to Washington to fight for the right to restore buildings on top of the proposed tunnel and for the next six years groups of citizens from all over the city fought to preserve the area. In a non-competitive bid process, Western & Southern was eventually awarded the rights to develop an apartment building in exchange for a concrete slab to "cap" the portion of the new freeway trench running under the new structure, with public tax dollars used for the far bigger part under the park itself.〔name=Morford>〕〔〔(Community Impact | Western & Southern )〕 When the Lytle Tunnel was completed in 1970, Lytle Park was the first park to be located above an interstate road.〔(A Walk Through History - The Phelps Building & Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio | Marriott )〕 Described as an "urban oasis",〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lytle Park )〕〔(Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors - Best Books on, Federal Writers' Project - Google Books )〕 Lytle Park is known for its large seasonal flower beds of tulips and chrysanthemums in entirely urban surroundings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lytle Park Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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