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3814 Harrison Avenue
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Cheviot’s city offices are located at 3814 Harrison Avenue. This demonstration stop introduces the civic side of the walking tour. The Historical Society can expand this entry with documented building history, archival photographs, and memories of community events.
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Narration transcript · English
Welcome to Cheviot City Hall, at thirty-eight fourteen Harrison Avenue. This building has been the center of city government since it was dedicated in nineteen eighty-seven. Inside you’ll find the Cheviot Police Department, the Fire Department, city administration and the tax office, and the chambers where City Council meets.
Cheviot’s story is older than this building. In eighteen eighteen a Scottish immigrant named John Craig laid out the town and named it after the Cheviot Hills of his homeland. For decades it remained a farming community along Harrison Pike. It became a village in nineteen oh one, with only about four hundred residents. Today the city is home to just over eighty-six hundred people.
Cheviot is divided into four wards. City Council has seven members: one elected from each ward and three elected at large. Together with the mayor, they set policy for the city.
Before nineteen eighty-seven, city business was carried on in smaller offices as the village and then the city grew. A volunteer fire company was organized in nineteen twelve. The community became a city on January first, nineteen thirty-two.
Be sure to stop at the new bell tower right out front. It went up in about a month. A Cheviot company, G and G Langenbrunner Construction, donated the labor and materials. The tower itself is about seven feet tall, built of brick and stone.
The bell hanging in it is a historic Number Twenty-Eight C.S. Bell, cast by the C.S. Bell Company of Hillsboro, Ohio, which made bells from eighteen ninety-four until nineteen seventy. It weighs more than three hundred pounds and is over a hundred years old. Residents Randy and Caroline Wilson donated it after it was found in Sadieville, Kentucky, then restored back in Hillsboro before it came home to Cheviot.
People of every age turned out for the dedication, including young descendants of founder John Craig. Two time capsules sit with the tower. One holds the names of those who were there that day. The other holds items meant to capture Cheviot as it is now. They are scheduled to be opened in twenty seventy-six, during the nation’s three-hundredth birthday.
Personalized commemorative bricks were sold as a fundraiser. They now form a landscaped walkway around the base of the tower. Neighbors hope this old bell, in its new home, will keep standing as a symbol of a city that is already more than two hundred years old. It preserves history. It celebrates the community.
City Hall is both a working civic building and a landmark on your walk through Cheviot.