A Journey Into The Eerie, Old, & Oft Forgotten Underground World Of Cincinnati | Cincinnati Refined

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The former Jackson Brewery features multiple levels of underground areas used for storing beer when it was still in operation. The building is built at the base the hill at McMicken Ave and Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Jackson Brewery features multiple levels of underground areas used for storing beer when it was still in operation. The building is built at the base the hill at McMicken Ave and Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Jackson Brewery features multiple levels of underground areas used for storing beer when it was still in operation. The building is built at the base the hill at McMicken Ave and Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Jackson Brewery features multiple levels of underground areas used for storing beer when it was still in operation. The building is built at the base the hill at McMicken Ave and Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Jackson Brewery features multiple levels of underground areas used for storing beer when it was still in operation. The building is built at the base the hill at McMicken Ave and Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Jackson Brewery features multiple levels of underground areas used for storing beer when it was still in operation. The building is built at the base the hill at McMicken Ave and Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Two local artists used a cellar under Union Hall for an immersive comic book experience. The MeSseD Tunnel Tour brings visitors into the cellar to read the 8-foot-high comic book panels. Appropriately, the comic follows the exploits of a sewer worker who runs into some unexpected (and unwelcome) company within a city’s underground tunnels. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Two local artists used a cellar under Union Hall for an immersive comic book experience. The MeSseD Tunnel Tour brings visitors into the cellar to read the 8-foot-high comic book panels. Appropriately, the comic follows the exploits of a sewer worker who runs into some unexpected (and unwelcome) company within a city’s underground tunnels. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Two local artists used a cellar under Union Hall for an immersive comic book experience. The MeSseD Tunnel Tour brings visitors into the cellar to read the 8-foot-high comic book panels. Appropriately, the comic follows the exploits of a sewer worker who runs into some unexpected (and unwelcome) company within a city’s underground tunnels. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Two local artists used a cellar under Union Hall for an immersive comic book experience. The MeSseD Tunnel Tour brings visitors into the cellar to read the 8-foot-high comic book panels. Appropriately, the comic follows the exploits of a sewer worker who runs into some unexpected (and unwelcome) company within a city’s underground tunnels. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Two local artists used a cellar under Union Hall for an immersive comic book experience. The MeSseD Tunnel Tour brings visitors into the cellar to read the 8-foot-high comic book panels. Appropriately, the comic follows the exploits of a sewer worker who runs into some unexpected (and unwelcome) company within a city’s underground tunnels. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Schmidt Brothers/Crown Brewery has a cellar that connects to another across the street via a tunnel that sneaks beneath McMicken Avenue. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Schmidt Brothers/Crown Brewery has a cellar that connects to another across the street via a tunnel that sneaks beneath McMicken Avenue. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Schmidt Brothers/Crown Brewery has a cellar that connects to another across the street via a tunnel that sneaks beneath McMicken Avenue. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Schmidt Brothers/Crown Brewery has a cellar that connects to another across the street via a tunnel that sneaks beneath McMicken Avenue. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The former Schmidt Brothers/Crown Brewery has a cellar that connects to another across the street via a tunnel that sneaks beneath McMicken Avenue. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Deep into the Cincinnati Water Works campus on Kellogg Avenue, the underground facility of Cincinnati Triple Steam (which opened in 1906) includes four 1,400-ton, 104-foot triple expansion crank and flywheel steam engines. The facility pumped the city’s water for 57 years until 1963. It's run with electric pumps today. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Deep into the Cincinnati Water Works campus on Kellogg Avenue, the underground facility of Cincinnati Triple Steam (which opened in 1906) includes four 1,400-ton, 104-foot triple expansion crank and flywheel steam engines. The facility pumped the city’s water for 57 years until 1963. It's run with electric pumps today. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Deep into the Cincinnati Water Works campus on Kellogg Avenue, the underground facility of Cincinnati Triple Steam (which opened in 1906) includes four 1,400-ton, 104-foot triple expansion crank and flywheel steam engines. The facility pumped the city’s water for 57 years until 1963. It's run with electric pumps today. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Deep into the Cincinnati Water Works campus on Kellogg Avenue, the underground facility of Cincinnati Triple Steam (which opened in 1906) includes four 1,400-ton, 104-foot triple expansion crank and flywheel steam engines. The facility pumped the city’s water for 57 years until 1963. It's run with electric pumps today. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Deep into the Cincinnati Water Works campus on Kellogg Avenue, the underground facility of Cincinnati Triple Steam (which opened in 1906) includes four 1,400-ton, 104-foot triple expansion crank and flywheel steam engines. The facility pumped the city’s water for 57 years until 1963. It's run with electric pumps today. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Deep into the Cincinnati Water Works campus on Kellogg Avenue, the underground facility of Cincinnati Triple Steam (which opened in 1906) includes four 1,400-ton, 104-foot triple expansion crank and flywheel steam engines. The facility pumped the city’s water for 57 years until 1963. It's run with electric pumps today. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The abandoned Cincinnati subway is perhaps the city's most captivating underground area because of its sheer enormity and restricted access to the public. Construction began in 1920 and failed to finish more than two miles of tunnel before being scrapped 25 years later after the end of World War Two. While tours were offered in the past, it is no longer accessible. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18<p></p>

The abandoned Cincinnati subway is perhaps the city's most captivating underground area because of its sheer enormity and restricted access to the public. Construction began in 1920 and failed to finish more than two miles of tunnel before being scrapped 25 years later after the end of World War Two. While tours were offered in the past, it is no longer accessible. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The abandoned Cincinnati subway is perhaps the city's most captivating underground area because of its sheer enormity and restricted access to the public. Construction began in 1920 and failed to finish more than two miles of tunnel before being scrapped 25 years later after the end of World War Two. While tours were offered in the past, it is no longer accessible. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The abandoned Cincinnati subway is perhaps the city's most captivating underground area because of its sheer enormity and restricted access to the public. Construction began in 1920 and failed to finish more than two miles of tunnel before being scrapped 25 years later after the end of World War Two. While tours were offered in the past, it is no longer accessible. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The abandoned Cincinnati subway is perhaps the city's most captivating underground area because of its sheer enormity and restricted access to the public. Construction began in 1920 and failed to finish more than two miles of tunnel before being scrapped 25 years later after the end of World War Two. While tours were offered in the past, it is no longer accessible. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The abandoned Cincinnati subway is perhaps the city's most captivating underground area because of its sheer enormity and restricted access to the public. Construction began in 1920 and failed to finish more than two miles of tunnel before being scrapped 25 years later after the end of World War Two. While tours were offered in the past, it is no longer accessible. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The cellar beneath Epicurean Mercantile Co. on Race Street once housed a variety of local breweries' beer, including that of the nearby Linck Brewery. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The cellar beneath Epicurean Mercantile Co. on Race Street once housed a variety of local breweries' beer, including that of the nearby Linck Brewery. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The cellar beneath Epicurean Mercantile Co. on Race Street once housed a variety of local breweries' beer, including that of the nearby Linck Brewery. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The cellar beneath Epicurean Mercantile Co. on Race Street once housed a variety of local breweries' beer, including that of the nearby Linck Brewery. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The cellar beneath Epicurean Mercantile Co. on Race Street once housed a variety of local breweries' beer, including that of the nearby Linck Brewery. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

The cellar beneath Epicurean Mercantile Co. on Race Street once housed a variety of local breweries' beer, including that of the nearby Linck Brewery. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room sits atop cellars and sub-cellars, all dug by German brewers to chill their lager beer through the hot summers. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room sits atop cellars and sub-cellars, all dug by German brewers to chill their lager beer through the hot summers. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room sits atop cellars and sub-cellars, all dug by German brewers to chill their lager beer through the hot summers. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room sits atop cellars and sub-cellars, all dug by German brewers to chill their lager beer through the hot summers. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room sits atop cellars and sub-cellars, all dug by German brewers to chill their lager beer through the hot summers. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room sits atop cellars and sub-cellars, all dug by German brewers to chill their lager beer through the hot summers. / Image: Phil Armstrong, Cincinnati Refined // Published: 6.14.18

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