Cincinnati Historical Society

found: Queen City heritage, spring 1983, surrogate:title page (Cincinnati Historical Society)

found: LC data base has: 2/8/84(heading: Cincinnati Historical Society of Ohio (Founded 1831); usage: Cincinnati Historical Society) LC manual authority card (earlier name: Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio)

found: Cincinnati magazine, November 2000:Museum Center special advertising section, page 4 (in 1863 the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio changed its name to the Cincinnati Historical Society; operates a research library in Eden Park; in 1995 the Cincinnati Historical Society, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and the Museum Center Foundation merged to become a single non-profit corporation called the Cincinnati Museum Center)

found: Cincinnati Museum Center website, viewed November 2, 2016:gateway to the city page (in 1986 the city, the Cincinnati Historical Society (CHS), and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History (CMNH) discussed the possibility of establishing a Heritage Center at Union Terminal; both organizations were interested in the Heritage Center concept, with CHS being interested in starting a museum and CMNH being interested in finding a new home since they had outgrown their facility on Gilbert Ave; in May 1986, Hamilton County voters approved Issue 3, a $33 million bond levy, to support the conversion of Union Terminal into a museum facility; the two organizations worked with the city and county to renovate Union Terminal into a multi-museum facility called the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC); the new facility opened in 1990) - http://www.cincymuseum.org/union-terminal/gateway