Winold Reiss industrial murals

Prior to the demolition, almost all were moved to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, nine of which were placed in air terminals which were themselves demolished in 2015.

[2] Two murals depicting the Rookwood Pottery Company never left the terminal; they were moved to the Cincinnati Historical Society's special exhibits gallery in 1991.

[1] The 1/3 scale works were photographically enlarged to the full size, and the shop-drawings were traced in reverse, cut up into smaller pieces for craftsmen to add tiles - the most complicated areas to the most skillful artisans.

[7] The two Rookwood Pottery murals were installed in corners of the concourse, above the offices of the Station Master and the Passenger Agent.

Due to the impending demolition, the fourteen murals in the concourse were moved in 1973 at a cost of $400,000[8] to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

Workers applied a protective coating to prevent tiles from moving or chipping, padded them in styrofoam, and crated them in wood.

They were transported upright on a flatbed truck to avoid damage, and telephone wires and signs on the route to the airport had to be temporarily removed.

The two Rookwood murals were not moved from their places until between 1989 and 1991, when they were relocated to the Cincinnati Historical Society's special exhibits gallery to make way for the installation of the Omnimax theater.

[14] They were exhibited at the Weston Art Gallery in the city in 2018, along with the original photographic, crayon, and gouache studies Weiss made for the murals.

[13] They are silhouette mosaics, using mostly nickel-size colored glass tesserae, trimmed and shaped individually, imbedded in tinted mortar.

The oil murals in other parts of the terminal dulled and needed extensive restoration, as Reiss imagined.