Losantiville Country Club
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Losantiville Country Club is a historic golf course
and clubhouse
built by Cincinnati's Jewish community, at first mainly German and English immigrants. The clubhouse was designed by Cincinnati architect Rudolph Tietig
, who also designed two of the area's synagogue
s.
In the last several years the private country club
merged with a newer club that was also predominantly Jewish, although of a membership demographic with more families from Eastern Europe
an ancestry.
Golf course
A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...
and clubhouse
Country club
A country club is a private club, often with a closed membership, that typically offers a variety of recreational sports facilities and is located in city outskirts or rural areas. Activities may include, for example, any of golf, tennis, swimming or polo...
built by Cincinnati's Jewish community, at first mainly German and English immigrants. The clubhouse was designed by Cincinnati architect Rudolph Tietig
Rudolph Tietig
Rudolph Tietig was an architect in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States and a partner in the Tietig & Lee architectural firm with William H. Lee .-Background:...
, who also designed two of the area's synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
s.
In the last several years the private country club
Country club
A country club is a private club, often with a closed membership, that typically offers a variety of recreational sports facilities and is located in city outskirts or rural areas. Activities may include, for example, any of golf, tennis, swimming or polo...
merged with a newer club that was also predominantly Jewish, although of a membership demographic with more families from Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
an ancestry.