The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is one of Ohio’s most groundbreaking attractions because of its three museums: the Cincinnati History Museum, the Duke Energy Children’s Museum and the Museum of Natural History and Science. While the center provides visitors entertainment, the architectural beauty of the building holds a lot of history that can be learned at the Historical Society on the lower level.
When speaking to a historian, one can find out that the dome-shaped railroad building was dedicated on March 31, 1993. Its first proposal took place in the early 20th century to help the crippling, existing railroad system; according to the History of Cincinnati Union Terminal, “the system consisted of seven lines operating out of five stations.” The first stages of planning took place in the early 1990s but many factors like World War I delayed the plan until the late 1920s.
The construction of Union Terminal was a cooperative project dealing with many railroad companies and the aforementioned source states that the building “centralized Nashville, the Pennsylvania, and the Chesapeake and Ohio. However, the architectural beauty came into play when New York architects Alfred Fellheimer and Steward Wagner were hired to design the building.
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