Standing on Kipling Avenue in Mount Airy, Cincinnati, Ohio, sits a Tudor Revival mansion on a hilltop.
The house was built in 1928 as the home of radio manufacturer Powel Crosley Jr. The Franciscan Sisters of the Poor bought it in 1963 and used it for retreats.
Cincinnati Preservation has owned it since 2011, and caterers ran it as a wedding venue starting in 2012. That business closed at the end of 2025, after 14 years. In January 2026 the city’s zoning examiner denied the variances a hotel plan needed…