by electric street railways, whose routes include four inclined-plane
railways, namely, Mt. Adams (268 ft. elevation), Bellevue (300 ft.),
Fairview (210 ft.) and Price Hill (350 ft.), from each of which an
excellent panoramic view of the city and suburbs may be obtained. There
are various suburbs, chiefly residential, in the Mill Creek valley,
among them being Carthage, Hartwell, Wyoming, Lockland and Glendale.
Other populous and attractive suburbs N. of the Ohio river are Norwood
and College Hill.

_Buildings, &c._--Brick, blue limestone, and a greyish buff freestone
are the most common building materials, and the city has various
buildings of much architectural merit. The chamber of commerce
(completed 1889), designed by H.H. Richardson, is one of the finest
public buildings in the United States. Its walls are of undressed
granite, and it occupies a ground area of 100 by 150 ft. The United
States government building (designed by A.B. Mullet, and built of Maine
and Missouri granite) is a fine structure in classic style, 360 ft. long
and 160 ft. wide, and 4-1/2 storeys high; its outer walls are faced with
sawn freestone. It was erected in 1874-1885 and cost (including the
land) $5,250,000. The city hall (332 ft. by 203 ft.), with walls of red
granite and brown sandstone, is a massive and handsome building erected
at a cost of $1,600,000. The county court house (rebuilt in 1887) is in
the Romanesque style, and with the gaol attached occupies an entire
square. The Cincinnati hospital (completed 1869), comprising eight
buildings grouped about a central court and connected by corridors,
occupies a square of four acres. A new public hospital for the suburbs
was projected in 1907. St Peter's (Roman Catholic) cathedral (begun
1839, consecrated 1844), Grecian in style, is a fine structure, with a
graceful stone spire 224 ft. in height and a chime of 13 bells; it has
as an altar-piece Murillo's "St Peter Liberated by an Angel." The church
of St Francis de Sales (in Walnut Hills), built in 1888, has a bell,
cast in Cincinnati, weighing fifteen tons, and said to be the largest
swinging bell in the world. Several of the Protestant churches, such as
the First Presbyterian (built 1835; steeple, including spire, 285 ft.
high), Second Presbyterian (1872), Central Christian (1869), St Paul's
Methodist Episcopal (1870), and St Paul's Protestant Episcopal
pro-cathedral (1851), are also worthy of mention, and in the residential
suburbs th