Long before craft cocktails, speakeasies, or Dry January trends, this city was already writing its own rulebook. In fact, Cincinnati played a starring role in one of America’s most defiant chapters: Prohibition.

There’s something timeless about pairing wine and poetry, especially around Valentine’s Day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes a poem about Nicholas Longworth, the Father of American Wine, who planted vineyards along the Ohio River.

Looking more like a cathedral than a public library, the Old Main Public Library was ornate and magnificent in nature, four floors high.