Today s visitor to Mariemont, Ohio, encounters what appears to be a community from another place and time, perhaps a country village in England s Cotswold region. Tree-lined streets pass through neighborhoods lined with Tudor- and Georgian-style buildings. A stone church with a roof that dates from 1300 abuts an early settlement graveyard. This remarkable village is the masterpiece of the eminent town planner John Nolen (18691937) and the vision of philanthropist Mary M. Emery (18441927).
Located near Cincinnati, Mariemont was designed as a self-sufficient town, its inspiration...