Routine renovation work on Cincinnati’s Music Hall – home of the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, the Cincinnati Opera and other performing arts organizations – has unearthed human bones on the work site, according to the Cincinnati television station WCPO.
An asbestos abatement crew uncovered bones beneath Music Hall’s orchestra pit March 29. The Cincinnati-based archeology firm Gray and Pape confirmed that the bones are human skeletal remains and that foul play is not suspected.
Music Hall was built on property that, in the early 1800s, had also hosted a public burial ground. When construction on the hall began in 1876, builders unearthed in the course of the work large numbers of human bones. Bones were found again on the site in the course of renovation projects that took place in the 1920s and in 1988.
Read more:
- Human Bones Found in Music Hall Beneath Orchestra Pit (WCPO)
- More Bones Dug up at Music Hall (Cincinnati.com)
