'He and I showed up and it was this big, long meeting - I had to leave because we’d been there for a good two hours, I think, and people were still talking. “I think (longtime Walnut Hills resident and advocate) Gary Dangel was the one that told me about the first meeting,' Plummer said. Plummer, who has worked in Walnut Hills since 2008 and moved to the neighborhood in May, has been involved with the historical society since the beginning. These time capsules are gold mines for the historical society, which formed only two years ago as an ad hoc section of the Walnut Hills Area Council, devoted to uncovering, preserving and sharing the history of the neighborhood.Ī first foothold, Walnut Hills continues to connect diverse residents Ric explained to the gathered historical society members that when he first entered, the building was like a time capsule, with sermon notes, a pair of reading glasses still perched on the pulpit and unfiled bills on the desk in the office. The couple bought it from New Sardis in 2006 when the congregation disbanded. Ric was a founding member of the band Over the Rhine he left in 1995 to focus on solo guitar work. Nowadays, the building exists as a music studio known as The Monastery, operated by husband-and-wife owners Ric and Karen Hordinski. Her research continued through two congregations, Stanton Avenue Church of the Nazarene (1938-1970) and New Sardis Baptist Church (1971-2006) that later occupied the space. One organizing member, Sue Plummer, presented the group with research starting in the early 1880s, when the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany constructed the building. The members introduced themselves and got right down to the “business” of conducting a historical society meeting, starting with a conversation about the history of the building itself. On a dark Wednesday evening in mid-November, members of the Walnut Hills Historical Society trickled into a repurposed church building on William Howard Taft between Stanton Avenue and Hemlock Street.

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