Mrs. Pratt had five of them. The largest collection outside of russia, more than the queen of england owns and she had them here in this house. Later on she donated them to the Virginia State museum. So today you could see them in one of the rooms down there. She predeceased mr. Pratt by a number of years. He lived here by himself up until 1975 when well into his 90s he died and at that point he gave the house to the National Park service. Realizing its historical importance. Thanks to the jens rossty of this man that we are able to show the house to you. I hope you enjoy it. If the you have any questions ask me and of course, we have a lot of interesting things going on on the front grounds today as well. So please take advantage of those as well. The gardens were on the front of the house. Entirely obliterated. If you look at pictures, we have one on the fireplace, of that side of the house during the war, youll see no garden. After the war was over in the 1920s they then moved the g
I would like to welcome everyone to William Howard Taft National Historic Site on behalf of the National Park service. The significance of the house is that this is the birth and boyhood home of our 27th president and 10th chief justice William Howard taft. The house was built around 1840. Thats the time that we like to use here. Tafts parents were fawnville and louise taft. They originally came from the new england states. Well, alfonzo taft, when he first left townsend, vermont, which was his hometown area, he comes here to cincinnati, ohio, in 1838, and he actually begins to work with a law firm, nathaniel wright, becoming a lawyer here in cincinnati. This is where he first started to make money. The tafts were prominent individuals who would later leave downtown cincinnati and move up to the top of the hill here in mt. Auburn. Mt. Auburn was once referred to as cincinnatis fifth avenue. The prince of wales when he came to visit the city, he actually would stay in a home up here in
I would like to welcome everyone to William Howard taft National Historic site. The significance of this house is this the birth and boyhood home of our 27th president. And our 10th chief justice, William Howard taft. The house was built around 1840, that is the time we like to use here. His parents were Alphonso Taft and louise taft. They came from the states. When alfonso left vermont he came here to cincinnati, ohio in 1838. He begins to work with a law firm, becoming a lawyer here in cincinnati. This is where he started to make money. Were prominent would laterwho leave downtown cincinnati and moved to the top here at mount auburn. Mount auburn was once referred to as cincinnatis 5th avenue. When the prince of wales came to visit he would stay in a home up here in the mount auburn community. This is where the welltodo got first established. Trying to get away from all the pollution and the slaughterhouses, thus getting the name porkopolis. Trying to get to that cleaner, healthier a
Cincinnati observatory to learn how it became the first public observatory in the western hemisphere. John this is the Cincinnati Observatory Center, situated in the city of cincinnati, approximately six miles east of downtown cincinnati. We call ourselves the birthplace of american astronomy. The founder of the observatory, ormsby mcknight mitchell, was essentially what we call the call sagan of the day. He was the popularizer of astronomy at that particular period. The first observatory of significance in the country and definitely the first public observatory at that time. He was a west point graduate and he was teaching at the Cincinnati College and in 1842 there was a group in town, the society for the promotion of useful knowledge. They offered to mitchell an opportunity to lecture the citizens. He started his lecture in this lecture hall, overflowed that, so they moved it to a chapel that seated 1200 people and does they ended the lecture, they said, why couldnt we, the citizens
Hello again. Thank you so much for being with me this saturday. I am fredricka whitfield. With the impeachment trial of president donald j. Trump set to begin next week, photos last night show more documentation of indicted associate lev parnas meeting with President Trump. The latest new evidence is the third release this week showing parnas in close connection with the president and his family. The president repeatedly denied knowing parnas at all. I dont know this gentleman. Now, its possible i have a picture with him because i have a picture with everybody. I dont know them. I dont know about them, i dont know what they do but i dont know, maybe they were clients of rudy, you would have to ask rudy. I dont know parnas, i guess i had pictures taken which i do with thousands of people, including people today i didnt meet, but just met them. I dont know him at all. Dont know what hes about. Dont know where he comes from, know nothing about him. He is probably trying to make a deal for