LOCATION:
The Cincinnati Music Hall is located on Elm
Street off of West Central Parkway, across from a large city park.
Address:
1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45210.
513-744-3344
DESCRIPTION:
An
1878 Music Hall which is a "Masterpiece of High Victorian Gothic Revival"
architecture, creating truly glorious place for cultural events in Cincinnati.
Over the years, it has been renovated and updated to be 4 different areas for
different needs of the community. The building's gable is 150 feet high.
Springer
Auditorium - This glorious theatre with state-of-the-art acoustics has seating
for 3,516. It serves as the home for the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Opera
and the May Festival Chorus.
Music Hall Ballroom - This huge, newly
renovated room has 20,000 square feet, and can hold up to 1,300 people, making
it the second largest room in the city for large receptions, fashion shows, conventions,
class reunions and gatherings over breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Corbett
Tower - Perfect place for events for 300 seated people, ranging from weddings
& receptions to dinners and parties. It has a stage, a dance floor, kitchen
and bar facilities, controlled sound and light.
Critic's Club - A
dining club which seats 50 people.
HISTORY:
The first music hall which
stood here was a modest festival hall, called Gesang Hall. The showpiece theatre
which stands here now was built here in 1878, with private money raised by the
heavily German population. It has the distinction of being the first in America
to be built by a combination of private money fundraiser and a matching grant
of money from a Mr. Springer, a wealthy German member of the community. The result
was one of the world's most beautiful music / arts / community halls.
Unlike
other grand buildings in other cities, this building was kept in good shape throughout
the years with periodic renovations and building expansions to meet the rising
need of the people in the community.
HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:
The
music hall was built on the spot where an insane asylum for the mentally ill,
Commerce Lunatic Hospital and a hospital for the diseased, called by the locals,
The Pest House once existed. Hundreds of people who died in the insane asylum
and the Pest House, were buried in mass graves in a pauper's cemetery, which never
got moved to another cemetery when the first music hall was built right on top
of it, which is a really bad idea! What were they thinking?? Yikes!! Everytime
there were renovations and building expansions made, more bones were disturbed
and are unearthed.
MANIFESTATIONS:
Day
and night, Maintenance workers, volunteers, audience & group members and security
guards are treated to paranormal occurrences.
Angry whispering
from an unseen presence in the elevator.
The real sense of being followed
and watched by an unseen presences and shadowy figures.
Been entertained
by a lovely female voice in the building when no one living was there.
Following
the sound of laughter, workers followed the sound and found that in the Music
Hall Ballroom, there were apparitions of men and women dancing around the room
in formal 1800's dress.
During Performances, full-formed entities of men
and women dressed in their finery of decades ago, have been known to join the
living for the night's performance in the Music Hall.
STILL
HAUNTED?
Yes indeed!
The Cincinnati Music Hall
is enjoyed by the living and the departed. If one's grave is under such a grand
building, why not enjoy it as well if you can't rest in peace? Besides enjoying
the arts, an entity can get its chuckles by following the living around, venting
frustrations by whispering at the living, and even try out the acoustics in the
hall by singing.
SOURCES INCLUDE...
theshadowlands.net * glasssteelandstone.com * msj.edu
forgottenoh.com * galenfrysinger.com * waymarking.com
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