Taft Museum of Art
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Taft Museum of Art is a museum in Ohio, at a recorded elevation of 162 m. Rumpke Mountain stands 319 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Fifth & Pike Street Gateway, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Riverboat Row Scenic Byway passes 0.5 miles off. 31 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Taft Museum of Art is a fine art collection in Cincinnati, Ohio. It occupies the 200-year-old historic house at 316 Pike Street. The house – the oldest domestic wooden structure in downtown Cincinnati – was built about 1820 and housed several prominent Cincinnatians, including Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft. It is on the National Register of Historic Places listings, and is a contributing property to the Lytle Park Historic District.
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Dates from 1927.
Wikidata Q7675043, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 162 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Riverboat Row Scenic Byway
- On the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 13.6 mi off the Presidential Pathways Ohio Scenic Byway
- 16.4 mi off the Big Bone Lick Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Shelter · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fifth & Pike Street Gateway: 0.1 mi
- Cincinnati Gateway: 0.2 mi
- Fort Washington Powder Magazine: 0.2 mi
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus: 0.2 mi
- Fort Washington Monument: 0.3 mi
- Lytle Park: 0.1 mi
- Yeatmans Cove Park: 0.2 mi
- Great American Broadcasting Pavillion: 0.3 mi
- Sawyer Point Park: 0.3 mi
- Bicentennial Commons: 0.3 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 0.1 mi
- A Blighting Splash: 0.4 mi
- Mister Redlegs: 0.4 mi
- Ted Kluszewski: 0.4 mi
- Joe Nuxhall: 0.4 mi
- Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati: 0.5 mi
- Aronoff Center for the Arts: 0.5 mi
- Tyler Davidson Fountain: 0.5 mi
- Main Street Fountain: 0.5 mi
- Labyrinth: 0.6 mi
- Kay’s Garden: 0.7 mi
- Pleasant Street North Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Over-The-Rhine People’s Garden: 1.1 mi
- Druffel Gardens: 1.6 mi
- Medicinal Herb Garden: 2.5 mi
- Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum: 0.5 mi
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: 0.6 mi
- Greater Cincinnati Police Museum: 0.6 mi
- Newport History Museum: 0.7 mi
- Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame: 0.8 mi
- Scarborough Woods: 2.7 mi
- Bettman Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Theresa Street Reserve: 3.4 mi
- Rawson Woods: 3.6 mi
- Glenway Woods: 3.7 mi
- Mount Adams: 0.4 mi
- Goat Hill: 1.0 mi
- Brighton Hill: 1.6 mi
- Bald Knob: 2.8 mi
- Mount Echo: 3.5 mi
- Lower Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
- Area 23: 5.4 mi
- Area 22, Furnas Hill: 5.4 mi
- Area 19, Stone Steps: 5.6 mi
- Area 26: 5.6 mi
- Lower Buckeye Falls: 13.4 mi
- Buckeye Falls: 13.4 mi
- Butterworth: 19.1 mi
- Simpkinsville: 19.4 mi
- Hidden Valley Lake Beach: 18.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Taft Museum of Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rumpke Mountain | NNW 337° | 319 m | 13.0 mi |
| Harrison Hill | WNW 298° | 284 m | 21.3 mi |
| Harrison Hill | WNW 300° | 279 m | 21.2 mi |
| Heitsmanns Hill | NNW 343° | 274 m | 21.9 mi |
| Snow Hill | NW 309° | 274 m | 24.9 mi |
| Whites Hill | WNW 298° | 273 m | 23.4 mi |
| Orchard Hill | SSW 201° | 268 m | 4.5 mi |
| Galley Hill | ENE 78° | 265 m | 16.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:15 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:28 | 21:08 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 16:37 | 17:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 35 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cincinnati Muni AP Lunken FLD, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Cincinnati · 0 mi
- Cincinnati/Downtown · 1 mi
- Cincinnati/Over-the-Rhine · 1 mi
- Newport · 2 mi
- Cincinnati/Clifton and Northside · 3 mi
- Covington · 3 mi
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