San Francisco

• San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge

• A brick from McMicken Hall lies in the bridge’s anchorage, engineered and built by Joseph Strauss (1870-1938), Eng 1892, HonDoc 1930

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NEW YORK

New York City

• Ellis Island Immigration Museum
• Ford Center for the Performing Arts
• Grand Central Terminal restoration
• South Street Seaport restoration

• All designed by architect Richard Blinder (1935 -2006), DAAP ’59
  (Read more about the Ford Center.)
  

• 21 Club — Famous restaurant once frequented by Cary Grant, Aristotle Onassis, Ernest Hemingway; 21 W. 52nd St.

• Built by the late Jerry Berns (1907-2006, born Herman Jerome Bernfeld), A&S ’29, and his brother in 1930 (See Jerry Berns' obituary.)
  

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Orlando

• Swan and Dolphin hotels, Walt Disney World

• Designed by Michael Graves, DAAP ’58, HonDoc ’82
  (Read UC Magazine article with advice from Graves.)
  

Cincinnati

• Life-sized likenesses of four famous Reds, Joe Nuxhall, Frank Robinson, Ted Kluszewski and Ernie Lombardi, placed at the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park.

• Sculpted in 2004 by Norikazu "Tom" Tsuchiya, A&S '95. In 2011, the ballpark unveiled another Tsuchiya bronze sculpture of a famous Red -- Johnny Bench. (See more photos and read UC Magazine story on Tsuchiya.)

• Reds stadium
• Aronoff Center
• Newport on the Levee
• Newport Aquarium

• Greater Cincinnati, projects of GBBN Architects, headed by these partners:
  • Chris Beghtel, DAAP ’73
  • John Gartner Jr., DAAP ’56
  • Bob Gramann, DAAP ’66
  • Greg Otis, DAAP ’88
  • Kim Patton, DAAP ’91
  • Keven Speece, DAAP ’79
  • John Rogers, DAAP '79

 

• Relief sculpture of three batters, measuring 50 by 20 feet, located at the Reds stadium administration building

• Sculpted by Todd Myers, DAAP ’97, and Paul Brooke, att. DAAP

 

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Cleveland

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• Cleveland Browns Stadium

• Designed by architect Christopher Wynn, DAAP ’85

 

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LOUISIANA

New Orleans

• French Quarter, Music Legends Park at 311 Bourbon Street is a pocket-sized park honoring Jazz legends.

• Statue of jazz-to-Dixieland trumpeter Al Hirt (1999-1923), CCM ’41, HonDoc ’68, can be found there. When Hirt returned to New Orleans around 1950, he was working with various Dixieland groups and leading his own bands. In 1962, he opened a club on Bourbon Street, which he ran until 1983.
  (See his bio under musicians, TV and obituaries.)
  

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TENNESSEE

Nashville

• Grand Ole Opry
• Ryman Auditorium
• General Jackson Showboat
• Wild-horse Saloon

• Owned by Gaylord Entertainment, Michael Rose, Bus ’63, HonDoc ’89, chairman

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WASHINGTON, D.C.

• Cannon House Office Building, oldest congressional office building in Washington, D.C., outside of the U.S. Capitol Building. Completed in 1908, it is located opposite the Capitol Plaza at the junction of C Street and New Jersey Avenue. Because its last remodeling took place in 1932, so the House of Representatives is in the early planning stages for a top-to-bottom renewal of the building. (Read more and watch a video.)

• This significant example of Beaux Arts architecture was named after “Uncle Joe” Cannon (1836–1926), Law 1858, a long-time member of the House of Representatives, who served as Speaker of the House from 1903-11.

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MASSACHUSETTS

Lowell Spinners minor league baseball team

Owned by Drew Weber, Bus '66, since 1997, the Spinners have sold out every home game in their 5,000-seat Edward LeLacheur Park stadium since the end of the 1999 season. One of their alumni is former Bearcat Kevin Youkilis, '01, who played for the Spinners for one year after graduation, then moved on to the major league teams of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. (Read the complete feature story.)

Museums about UC alumni

• Walton's Mountain Museum, in an old Blue Ridge Mountain elementary school in Schuyler, Va., across from the childhood home of Hamner, the "real" John Boy

• Ike Godsey's Store, recreated rooms from "The Waltons," TV memorabilia make up this museum,  a tribute to "The Waltons" producer, creator, writer, narrator Earl Hamner, CCM '48, HonDoc '08. Open March - November.
  (See UC Magazine's extensive coverage of Earl Hamner.)
  
  

• William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati

• Taft’s restored 1857 birthplace reflects family life during his boyhood, features educational exhibits and an animatronic figure of the Taft’s son Charlie telling stories; ; William Howard Taft (1857-1930), Law 1880, HonDoc ’25, the only U.S. president to have also served as U.S. chief justice.
  (Read more about the campus influence from Taft and his family.)
  

Museums led or founded by UC alumni

• Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center

• Drew Klein, CCM ’07, became performance curator in 2011, producing one performance event a month. “We want to have a global program touching on all different continents,” he told CityBeat. (added 12-11)

• Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Museum

• Greg Palumbo, A&S '03, became the exhibits manager at this museum in south Florida in 2007. Previously, he was the head preparator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. (updated 7-11)

• Ball State University Museum of Art

• Nicole Cardassilaris, GradCert (DAAP) ’02, visual resource manager and gallery associate for this museum in Muncie, Ind.; previously preparator and exhibit designer (updated 7-11)

• Cincinnati History Museum at the Cincinnati Museum Center

• Vanessa Van Zant, DAAP '06, became director of the Cincinnati History Museum, located in Union Terminal, in June 2009. She is certified through UC’s Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program. (updated 7-11)

• Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

• Art Cohn, A&S ’71, is cofounder and executive director of this museum dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Lake Champlain. Located at 4472 Basin Harbor Rd., Vergennes, Vt., it houses a Revolutionary War replica gunboat, craftsmen and 150 years of maritime artifacts. (updated 7-11) (Read UC Magazine article on Cohn.)
  

• Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

• Doug Cramer, A&S ’53, founded this museum in 1979, now housed in three different facilities and accommodating more than 5,000 works. (updated 7-11)

• Cleveland Museum of Art

• Gretchen Shie-Miller, MA (DAAP) ’96, associate registrar for loans and exhibitions at this museum (updated 7-11)

• College Football Hall of Fame

Kent Stephens, CCM ’76, is museum curator and historian of this South Bend, Ind., museum. He was previously collection manager (updated 7-11)

Warren County Historical Society Museum, Lebanon, Ohio

• Lucy Putnam, GradCert (DAAP) ’01, assistant to the director at this museum (updated 7-11)