Here are a few of my past projects.
Original research on historic Findlay Market, Ohio’s oldest continually operating public market.
For the Corporation for Findlay Market, I conducted extensive historic property research and genealogy on Findlay Market and the families who built and maintained it—from 1852 to now. I wrote histories of each building on and around the market. Each history shared and celebrated how immigrants, African Americans, Appalachians, and women have shaped the market and the surrounding downtown Cincinnati area.
Innovative walking tours for the Over-the-Rhine Museum.
Modeled on the New York Tenement Museum, the Over-the-Rhine Museum is an inclusive neighborhood history museum of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. I conducted extensive, original archival research into the neighborhood's diverse history. From my research, I created themed walking tours, highlighting local women's, African American, Appalachian, and immigrant history.
An institutional history of the Cincinnati park board.
Funded by the Stephen H. Wilder Foundation, I researched and wrote a detailed history and assessment of Cincinnati's park board, exploring how its members have/have not been advocates for conservation and sustainability. Wilder Foundation and Preserve Burnet Woods used the report to lobby city council for policy changes to ensure better parks management.
A history of a tailor shop.
I researched and wrote a history of a building in Cincinnati, Ohio—an old tailor shop. Built before the Civil War, it was home to hundreds of immigrants and their thriving tailoring businesses throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. But from 1977 to 2016, it sat vacant. In the building’s own boom and bust, rise and fall—and recent renovation—I shared its history alongside the larger story of urban America.