Notice the site of Lincoln Park, once a public park in Cincinnati's West End that is now part of the grounds of Cincinnati Union Terminal. Imagine a lake with an island, a gazebo where musicians often played, a public green threaded with brick walkways, and a neighborhood baseball field where people gathered. The park was created in 1858 and served generations: the gazebo drew bands and listeners, and the lake became a skating place each winter.
From 1929 to 1933 the park was relandscaped to become a decorative green space for the entrance drive of the new Union Terminal, changing its shape and purpose to meet the needs of the terminal. Much later, in 1980, most of that green space was paved over for the terminal’s shopping mall, the Land of Oz, and the area is subsequently used by the Cincinnati Museum Center. The site you stand on was originally part of Cincinnati’s Ward 16, later known as the West End and then part of Queensgate, with boundaries that matched the terminal grounds along Kenner Street, Hopkins Street, Freeman Avenue, and Hoefer Street.
Union Terminal now rises to your west, its entrance drive paved over the ground this park once covered.