The World's Most Beautiful Places
The Great American Tower stands above the stadium of the Cincinnati Reds, in Ohio. The skyscraper was completed in 2011 at a cost of $322 million. It contains more than 800,000 square feet of office space. It is the tallest building in Cincinnati (ending the 81 year rein of the Carew Tower), at 41 stories and 665 feet tall. It is the third tallest in Ohio.
In 1985 the City of Cincinnati renamed the city’s Second Street to Pete Rose Way after the famous baseball player. The road lies just outside of the Cincinnati Red’s stadium, which lies along the Ohio River Waterfront. Pete Rose, despite the gambling scandal that forced his retirement as a baseball manager in 1989, remains a home town hero. He was a Major League Baseball player from 1963 to 1986, playing for the Cincinnati Reds twice, as well as the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Montreal Expos. He would eventually become a manager for the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 until 1989.
A view of the Cincinnati Observatory on Mt. Lookout above the Ohio River. The observatory was dedicated by John Quincy Adams in 1843, in his last public speech. He died a few years later, and the hill on which the observatory originally stood was renamed Mount Adams in his honor. Today the observatory resides on Mt. Lookout. The observatory is operated by the University of Cincinnati, and is the oldest professional observatory in the United States.