The Cincinnati Zoo Historic Structures are a set of historic buildings at the Cincinnati Zoo in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since February 27, 1987.
The second oldest zoo in the United States, it opened to the public in September 1875. Significant for the antiquity and richness of its collections and for its efforts in the propagation and nurture of rare and endangered species, it was well known as the home of "Martha" the last passenger pigeon. The Aviary, where she lived, and the original Monkey House and Herbivore House are the zoo's earliest surviving structures. The Aviary, Money House, and Herbivore House are known today as the Passenger Pigeon Memorial, the Reptile House, and the Elephant House, respectively.
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“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)