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Longevity

According to the most recent analysis from the City of Cincinnati, North Avondale and adjacent Paddock Hills have a slightly higher life expectancy than the citywide life expectancy. From data collected from 2007-2015, the life expectancy by combined North Avondale / Paddock Hills is 77.1 years while the overall citywide life expectancy is 76.1 years.

The Longevity series is an ongoing project to record the history and learn from those who have lived in the North Avondale the longest.


Longevity Posts

  • Longevity in North Avondale: 1401 Dana Avenue

    Longevity in North Avondale: 1401 Dana Avenue

    Can you imagine visiting your grandparents at Casa Blanca, their home (below) at 1401 Dana Avenue and then getting to live in this house yourself once they passed? Well Annamarie Becker Harten (and her 7 siblings) got to do just that! Casa Blanca was built in l927-28 and Annamarie’s grandfather, […]

  • Longevity in North Avondale: 59 Kessler Place

    Longevity in North Avondale: 59 Kessler Place

    Mrs. Virginia (“Ginny”) Krebs has called 59 Kessler Place HOME for her entire life – all 87 years of it! In fact, she was born in the bedroom that she currently sleeps in. And the family goes back even further…… Ginny’s grandparents, George and Anna Pfaffenberger had a farm on […]

  • Longevity in North Avondale: 10 & 4 Burton Woods Lane

    Longevity in North Avondale: 10 & 4 Burton Woods Lane

    The beautiful, tall, slender, white-haired woman you may see out walking with her daughter is Mrs. Mary Kartal and she has called North Avondale and two addresses on Burton Woods Lane home since 1960. She originally bought at #10 and moved to #4 in 2010, where, interestingly, Charlie Taft, son […]