Dayton March/April 2024

living it up
ON THE CORNER
Condo owners enjoy the streetside activity
in front of their hilltop home
BY KAREN BRADNER | PHOTOS BY GREG GRUPENHOF
It’s easy to forget how close you are to downtown Cincinnati when you find
yourself in the heart of Fort Thomas. Maybe it’s the climb via Grand and
Highland Avenues and all their curves that throw you off a bit. Or maybe it’s
the fact that when you arrive, you feel like you are in a community that has a
personality all its own.
“I don’t know quite how to describe it, but it’s almost like there’s a bit of
a time warp,” says a homeowner who recently moved into the community.
“It’s a sweet town with what I think of as old-fashioned sensibilities.”
Indeed, this is a community that honors its past. At its center is the actual
Fort Thomas, a U.S. Army post built in 1887 in “The Highlands” after moving
from its flood-prone location in Newport. Today, banners honoring veterans
flank the light posts along the city’s streets.
But this charming Hamlet is a mere 3.5 miles from the Big Mac bridge, (Exit
3 off I-471). “I can get to my downtown office faster from here than I could
from our previous home in Covington,” the owner says. ➻
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