Taft Museum of Art

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The Taft Museum of Art is a small art museum in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The building which houses the museum was built in about 1820 for Martin Baum and then was the residence of Nicholas Longworth, and later Charles Phelps Taft (the half-brother of President William Howard Taft), who lived there from 1873 until 1929. William H. Taft accepted his presidential nomination here in 1908. [1] The Tafts were avid art collectors. They turned their home into a museum, and donated their Federalist-style home and private collection of 690 works of art to the people of Cincinnati in 1927.

The museum's collection contains about 710 paintings including the well known murals by Robert Duncanson. The museum reopened in May of 2004 after an extensive renovation.