The only outsiders who regularly visited this notoriously violent part of the city were police. Perhaps that's why nobody seemed to care that Over-the-Rhine's crumbling, two- to five-story brick buildings, occupied largely by squatters and drug dealers, comprised the largest collection of 19th-century, Italianate architecture in America.
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