The building on Western Avenue

Ohio · United States · Church

Built in the late 1800s as a convent, later an armory, now a trade school with student accommodation.

This building at 1409 Western Avenue in Cincinnati went up in the late 1800s. It was a convent first, then an armory, and it now houses a trade school and dormitories for the students.

What is reported happens on the upper three floors and in the attic.

Figures are seen.

The sequence of uses is the interesting part. A convent is a building of silence, routine and enclosure. An armory is drill halls, weapons and men. A trade school is teenagers learning a job. The same rooms have held all three within a hundred and thirty years.

Job Corps takes young people who have had a hard start and trains them, which makes this a building full of students who arrived with nothing much and are trying to change that.

The centre is a working school and closed to visitors.

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Where is The building on Western Avenue located?

The building on Western Avenue is in Ohio, United States.