Hamilton

Benninghofen House is a registered historic building in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1973-05-17.

Dixon-Globe Opera House-Robinson-Schwenn Building is a registered historic building in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register on July 14, 2000.

Edgeton is a registered historic building in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1975-04-03.

Lane-Hooven House is a historic house museum in Hamilton, Ohio. Built in 1863 for Clark Lane, a Hamilton industrialist and philanthropist, the... octagonal house features a brick exterior with Gothic Tudor elements. Other features include a cast-iron fence, a greenhouse and a fountain. It was listed in the National Register on October 25, 1973. The Hamilton Community Foundation has owned the house since 1951 and maintains its offices there. The Foundation provides tours of the home during the week.
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Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American-British singer-songwriter, record producer, and the former lead singer of The... Walker Brothers. Despite being American, Walker's success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums reached the top ten. Walker has lived in the UK since 1965. Walker became a British citizen in 1970. He continues to release solo material and is currently signed to 4AD. Originally championed by Eddie Fisher in the late 1950s, Walker appeared several times under his real name, on Fisher's TV series. He was marketed as a teen idol, in the style of other popular singers of his time. Walker was a bass guitarist, proficient enough to get session work in Los Angeles as a teenager. After playing in many bands, he eventually joined with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form The Walker Brothers in Los Angeles in 1964. Leeds had recently toured the United Kingdom with P.J. Proby and was the catalyst to their relocation to London. The Walker Brothers arrived in London in early 1965 and attained worldwide popularity with pop ballads.
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Greg Dulli is an American rock musician. Greg Dulli was born and brought up in Hamilton, Ohio. Although he was raised a Catholic, he is now... agnostic. Dulli first came to public attention in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs when he joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band fused punk rock and R&B. Dulli's career in production was halted as The Afghan Whigs began playing more gigs, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. The band was soon brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records in Seattle. They were the first non-Northwestern U.S. band to record for the Sub Pop label. The Whigs amicably split in 2001. In 1994, Dulli was a lead vocalist in the Backbeat Band, an alternative-rock supergroup that recorded the soundtrack to The Beatles biopic, Backbeat. Other members of the Backbeat Band were Thurston Moore , Don Fleming , Mike Mills , Dave Grohl , and Dave Pirner . Dulli was the only musician that appeared on the Foo Fighters first record aside from Dave Grohl. He added a guitar part to the song "X-Static".
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Brady Seals is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the... husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart. Seals made his debut in 1988 as co-lead vocalist and keyboardist in the sextet Little Texas, with whom he recorded until his departure in late 1994. Between then and 2002, he recorded as a solo singer, releasing three studio albums and charting in the Top 40 on the country charts with "Another You, Another Me". In 2002, Seals formed a quartet called Hot Apple Pie, in which he has recorded one studio album and charted three singles. A fourth solo album, Play Time, was released in 2009 via Star City. Seals was raised in a musical home in the Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb of Fairfield. He began playing piano and writing songs at the age of nine, and was performing in a high-school band at the age of 16. After leaving home not long after, Seals returned to finish his education, but then left again. He ended up in Nashville and joined the group Little Texas with friend and fellow musician Del Grey.
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Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American-British singer-songwriter, record producer, and the former lead singer of The... Walker Brothers. Despite being American, Walker's success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums reached the top ten. Walker has lived in the UK since 1965. Walker became a British citizen in 1970. He continues to release solo material and is currently signed to 4AD. Originally championed by Eddie Fisher in the late 1950s, Walker appeared several times under his real name, on Fisher's TV series. He was marketed as a teen idol, in the style of other popular singers of his time. Walker was a bass guitarist, proficient enough to get session work in Los Angeles as a teenager. After playing in many bands, he eventually joined with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form The Walker Brothers in Los Angeles in 1964. Leeds had recently toured the United Kingdom with P.J. Proby and was the catalyst to their relocation to London. The Walker Brothers arrived in London in early 1965 and attained worldwide popularity with pop ballads.
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Steven J. "Steve" Morse is an American guitarist and composer, best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs, and the guitar player in Deep Purple... since 1994. Morse's career has encompassed rock, country, funk, jazz, classical, and fusion of these musical genres. In addition to a thriving solo career, he enjoyed a brief stint with Kansas in the mid 80s. Morse's father was a minister and his mother a classically trained pianist; both were also psychologists. The family moved to Tennessee, then Ypsilanti, Michigan, where Morse spent his childhood. Although familiar with piano and clarinet, Morse ultimately became interested in guitar after seeing a gentleman finger picking a Dixie melody at a county fair. Morse worked briefly with his brother Dave in a band called The Plague until the family moved to Augusta, Georgia. In the late 60s, he played in a band called Three—named on the day of a local battle of the bands -- with his older brother; and 12 yr. old keyboardist William Gerald Wooten, a student at the same junior high as, though 1 grade earlier than, the 13 yr. old guitarist.
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Greg Dulli is an American rock musician. Greg Dulli was born and brought up in Hamilton, Ohio. Although he was raised a Catholic, he is now... agnostic. Dulli first came to public attention in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs when he joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band fused punk rock and R&B. Dulli's career in production was halted as The Afghan Whigs began playing more gigs, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. The band was soon brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records in Seattle. They were the first non-Northwestern U.S. band to record for the Sub Pop label. The Whigs amicably split in 2001. In 1994, Dulli was a lead vocalist in the Backbeat Band, an alternative-rock supergroup that recorded the soundtrack to The Beatles biopic, Backbeat. Other members of the Backbeat Band were Thurston Moore , Don Fleming , Mike Mills , Dave Grohl , and Dave Pirner . Dulli was the only musician that appeared on the Foo Fighters first record aside from Dave Grohl. Dulli was watching Grohl record the songs.
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Van Wesley Stephenson was an American singer-songwriter. He scored two US Billboard Hot 100 hits in the 1980s as a solo artist, and later became... tenor vocalist in the country music band BlackHawk in the 1990s. In addition, Van co-wrote several singles for other artists, such as Restless Heart. Van died of Melanoma in 2001. Stephenson was born in Hamilton, Ohio but moved to Nashville, Tennessee when he was ten years old, and played in garage bands as a teenager. He graduated from seminary school and wrote songs on the side in the 1970s; his first chart hit as a songwriter was for Crystal Gayle, who cracked the US country Top Ten with his "Your Kisses Will" in 1979. Stephenson went on to write hits for Kenny Rogers, Dan Seals, Janie Fricke, and John Anderson. Partnering with Dave Robbins, Stephenson wrote a string of hits for Restless Heart, and would continue to work with Robbins later in his career. First album "China Girl" was released in 1981 Stephenson landed a recording contract of his own, and his album, Righteous Anger, was released in 1984.
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Edward Martindel was an American stage and film actor. He appeared on Broadway and in 89 films between 1915 and 1946. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio... and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. His grave is located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
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Larry Troutman was a musician and a founding member of the funk/R&B band Zapp alongside his younger brother, Roger Troutman. The band enjoyed a... string of hits throughout the 1980s, most notably "Computer Love" and "More Bounce to the Ounce". On April 25, 1999, at 7:20am, police found Troutman in his car, dead as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His younger brother Roger was found a couple of blocks away; his death was ruled a homicide. To this day, no motive is known, though a business dispute was suspected. Sources say that Larry had not slept in several days and was not in his normal state of mind at the time.
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