Mosaic murals at Cincinnati airport will be preserved

CINCINNATI (AP) – Nine historic mosaic murals in soon-to-be-demolished terminals at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport will be preserved.

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley on Monday said the 20-by-20-foot murals will be moved from the two airport terminals to the Duke Energy Convention Center in downtown Cincinnati at a cost of nearly $3 million.

Under an agreement, the Kenton County (Kentucky) Airport Board will pay to remove and transport the murals to Cincinnati, at a cost of about $2 million. The city will unload the murals and mount them on a western wall on the convention center’s exterior at a cost of $750,000.

The extra installation cost will be repaid by the hotel/motel tax over five years.

The murals depicting Cincinnati’s manufacturing past were produced in 1933 by famed Art Deco artist Winold Reiss.

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