Click here to go to a flash presentation with video, audio and pictures about Union Terminal and its history!
Originally built in 1933
as the Union Terminal train station, the building was declared a National
Historic Landmark in 1977. Union Terminal stands on a prominent location
one mile northwest of the city center. Visitors approach the 10-story,
arched, limestone and glass facade of the building from the east through
a quarter-mile plaza. The dome is flanked on either side by curving wings.
An illuminated fountain, cascade and pool lie in the foreground center.
On either side of the main doors, Maxfield Keck's bas-relief figures symbolize
Commerce and Transportation. In the late 1980s, the building was renovated
and then reopened as Cincinnati Museum Center in 1990. It was recently
named one of the top 50 architecturally significant buildings in America
by the American Institute of Architects.
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