ere are many fine churches. Cincinnati is the seat of a Roman
Catholic archbishopric and a Protestant Episcopal and Methodist
Episcopal bishopric. The Masonic temple (195 ft. long and 100 ft. wide),
in the Byzantine style, is four storeys high, and has two towers of 140
ft.; the building was completed in 1860 and has subsequently been
remodelled. Among other prominent buildings are the Oddfellows' temple
(completed 1894), the public library, the art museum (1886), a Jewish
synagogue (in Avondale), and the (Jewish) Plum Street temple (1866),
Moorish in architecture. The Soldiers', Sailors' and Pioneers' building
(1907) is a beautiful structure, classic in design. The business houses
are of stone or brick, and many of them are attractive architecturally;
there are a number of modern office buildings from 15 to 20 storeys in
height. There are also several large hotels and ten theatres (besides
halls and auditoriums for concerts and public gatherings), the most
notable being Springer music hall.

One of the most noted pieces of monumental art in the United States is
the beautiful Tyler Davidson bronze fountain in Fountain Square (Fifth
Street, between Walnut and Vine streets), the business centre of the
city, by which (or within one block of which) all car lines run. The
fountain was unveiled in 1871 and was presented to the city by Henry
Probasco (1820-1902), a wealthy citizen, who named it in honour of his
deceased brother-in-law and business partner, Mr Tyler Davidson. The
design, by August von Kreling (1819-1876), embraces fifteen bronze
figures, all cast at the royal bronze foundry in Munich, the chief being
a female figure with outstretched arms, from whose fingers the water
falls in a fine spray. This figure reaches a height of 45 ft. above the
ground. The city has, besides, monuments to the memory of Presidents
Harrison and Garfield (both in Garfield Place, the former an equestrian
statue by Louis T. Rebisso, and the latter by Charles H. Niehaus); also,
in Spring Grove cemetery, a monument to the memory of the Ohio
volunteers who lost their lives in the Civil War. The art museum, in
Eden Park, contains paintings by celebrated European and American
artists, statuary, engravings, etchings, metal work, wood carving,
textile fabrics, pottery, and an excellent collection in American
ethnology and archaeology. The Cincinnati Society of Natural History
(incorporated 1870) has a large library and a museum containing a
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