Fountain Square Station

The Downtown Subway Hub That Could Have Been

The 2.2 miles of the infamous abandoned subway is most likely the biggest “What if” in Cincinnati/NKY history.

But one of the more intriguing features of the ill-fated subway system is often overlooked:

The Fountain Square Subway Station.

An underground mass transit system was first mentioned in Cincinnati in 1883, when The Graphic, a weekly newspaper, …