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Elizabeth Fugate of Mount Washington noticed a little building on Rockdale near Victory Parkway on her way to work. It s a stone building with wooden shingles, a boarded up front door, two little doors off to either side of that, and a garage door in the back. It reminds me of the architecture from Eden Park or the Cincinnati Zoo, and so I was wondering if it came about during that time and stuff has been lost as the city has been built up around it.
It s the Victory Parkway Shelter and it belongs to Cincinnati Parks, according to spokesman Rocky Merz. He says it was built as a comfort station. Which nowadays we call restrooms, he says. The architect s name was Charles Cellarius. He was the supervising architect for the community of Mariemont and also designed Woodward High School, and has a lot of other buildings in the area. We were happy to have his imprint put on the building.