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Bad House, Bad House

Has anyone else ever noticed this little 1970 modular house in Corryville? It has hardly any windows and is completely out of place, especially since it occupies a corner. I'd like to do a post about the church seen behind soon.

[Were: 232 Oak Street, Cincinnati, OH 45219] NE cor Oak and Bellevue Labels: housing, Uptown 
You mean that thing is actually a house? I always thought it was simply a trailer that had been jacked up on stilts and infilled underneath. Now that you mention it a trailer probably would have looked better.

9/11/08 2:41 PM 
I don't even know where that is.

9/11/08 3:51 PM 
2 blocks due west of the Vernon Manor Hotel.

9/11/08 7:11 PM 
A post on the church??? That little house looks like a short story just waiting to be written...

9/11/08 9:04 PM 
I've passed that house many times. I always thought it was made out of those big cargo containers that come over on ships. Nice.

10/11/08 9:30 AM 
That church was perfectly proportioned for its streetcar neighborhood. It's now starting to be dwarfed by the developments marching south from MLK.

10/11/08 9:47 AM 
A double decker cargo container would have been prime real estate in Iraq.

10/11/08 2:04 PM 
This house, such as it is, is located in Corryville at the northeast corner of Oak and Bellevue.

During graduate school, I lived about a block south of the house' location -- on Bellevue, a really great street at the time, maybe still is.

The house went up, in one day as I recall, in the early Seventies. Came in on two trucks, and was craned-off and put in place.

It was some sort of Federal demostration project aimed at promoting affordable housing in cities.

Hopefully, this single site was the end of it.

10/11/08 2:30 PM 
It's still pretty affordable...it last sold for $20k.

10/11/08 4:48 PM 
I guess this is a prime example of creating permanently affordable housing. Small, crappy, windowless boxes do not appreciate in value, thus keep housing affordable. I wonder how much the original construction cost in 1970. I would reckon it cost maybe $10,000. The utilities and lot might have been another $10,000. Same value today as then...

11/11/08 12:36 AM