Taft museum

This was a quick rainy day blip, taken while we were downtown for the Chanticleer concert at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral. This National Historic Landmark was built about 1820 for Martin Baum, and is the oldest domestic wooden structure in situ locally and is considered one of the finest examples of Federal architecture in the Palladian style in the country. Other residents of this important villa included Nicholas Longworth, who extensively redecorated the interiors and hired African American painter Robert S. Duncanson to paint landscape murals in the foyer. After Longworth's residency, the villa was purchased by David Sinton, father of museum co-founder, Anna Sinton Taft. Anna Taft lived in the mansion with her husband Charles Phelps Taft from 1873 until their respective deaths in 1931 and 1929. In 1908, Charles Phelps Taft's half-brother, William Howard Taft accepted the nomination for U. S. president underneath the house's portico. The Tafts bequeathed their historic home and private collection of 690 works of art to the people of Cincinnati in 1927 and the building was opened as a museum in 1932.
The concert was amazing as always - the cathedral hosts a series of concerts each year, and for each of the last three years that we have been going, one of the concerts has featured Chanticleer, the 12 man a capella choir, based in San Francisco.