{"id":834139,"date":"2026-09-02T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834139\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:40:17","slug":"sing-the-queen-city-sign-taken-down-to-make-room-for-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834139\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sing the Queen City&#8217; sign taken down to make room for golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sign at The Banks that\u2019s been the site of plenty of selfies and social media posts is gone.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Sing the Queen City&#8221; sign stood on Lot 18 between the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Roebling Suspension Bridge. The aluminum sculpture was <a href=\"https:\/\/tommyink.com\/project\/sing-the-queen-city\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">created by Tommy Sheehan<\/a> and is the last line in the poem &#8220;Seven Hills and a Queen to Name Them.&#8221; Cincinnati\u2019s nickname is the Queen City.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Big letters spell out &quot;Sing the Queen City&quot; in front of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"541\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788352817_784_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was created in 2015 as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1001colors.org\/discover\/public-art-gallery\/cincyink\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1001 Color\u2019s CincyInk project<\/a>. Installation at the Banks came after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvxu.org\/local-news\/2020-02-18\/new-skystar-wheel-will-be-a-first-in-the-usa\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skystar wheel was taken down in March, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sign has been removed from its concrete pad and put into storage, according to Banks Project Executive Phil Beck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvxu.org\/local-news\/2026-07-02\/mini-golf-the-banks-cincinnati\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A mini-golf course will take its place<\/a>, at least for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Beck says he\u2019s not aware of where the Sing the Queen City sign could be reinstalled in the meantime, or if it will return to Lot 18 when the golf course&#8217;s lease is up.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sign at The Banks that\u2019s been the site of plenty of selfies and social media posts is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-834139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}