Over-the-Rhine (often abbreviated as OTR) is a

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, Ohio, United States. Historically, Over-the-Rhine has been a working-class neighborhood. It is among the largest, most intact urban

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s in the United States.Over-the-Rhine Foundation
Guide to OTR Architecture
Accessed on 2009-08-13.

Etymology

The neighborhood's name comes from the predominantly

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immigrants who developed the area in the mid-19th century. Many walked to work across bridges over the

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, which separated the area from downtown Cincinnati. The canal was

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d "the Rhine" in reference to the river

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, and the newly settled area north of the canal as "Over the Rhine".Kenny (1875), pg. 130. In German, the district was called ''über den Rhein''. An early reference to the canal as "the Rhine" appears in the 1853 book ''White, Red, Black'', in which traveler

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wrote, "The Germans live all together across the Miami Canal, which is, therefore, here jocosely called the 'Rhine.' " In 1875 writer Daniel J. Kenny referred to the area exclusively as "Over the Rhine." He noted, "Germans and Americans alike love to call the district 'Over the Rhine.' "Kenny (1875), pg. 129. Eventually, the canal was drained and capped by Central Parkway; the resulting tunnel was to be used for the now-defunct

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project.

History

Built in the nineteenth century during a period of extensive

immigration, Over-the-Rhine changed as many residents moved to the suburbs following World War II. The city and area had lost many of the industrial jobs that once supported its workers. By the end of the century, the area was noted for its poverty. Residents united and created many life-saving organizations.Over-the-Rhine Foundation
OTR History
. Accessed on June 13, 2009 Following social unrest in 2001, the neighborhood has since been the focus of millions of dollars of redevelopment.

Geography

Over-the-Rhine, one of the largest, most intact urban historic districts in the United States, has several districts. The Northern LibertiesMarket History , Findlay Market of Cincinnati, Ohio
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are north of Liberty Street. South of Liberty are the Gateway Quarter and Pendelton.

The Washington Park Area

In recent years, developers have renamed this portion of Over-the-Rhine as "The Gateway Quarter". This area has been the focal point of gentrification, which has displaced African Americans and low-income residents. More than 1,000 African Americans left this area between 2000 and 2010, and by 2012 it had become a predominantly white, wealthy and exclusive section of the neighborhood.

The Brewery District

North of Liberty Street sat the heart of Cincinnati's beer brewing industry. Christian Moerlein established his first brewing company in Over-the-Rhine in 1853. Eventually the

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became the city's largest brewery and expanded into the national market. At its height the brewery occupied three entire city blocks. Prohibition brought an end to the company in the 1920s. In 2010 the revived

began brewing beer in the Brewery District once again.

North of Liberty Street

This area of the neighborhood has been relatively untouched by recent gentrification efforts and may resemble historic OTR better than other areas. In the late 1820s, English writer

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, mother of

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, lived in the Mohawk area, which today is considered part of Over-the-Rhine.Trollope, Fanny, ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'', Ch. 12.
/ref> The acerbic portrayal of Americans of that period in her book ''

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'' is based in part on her interactions with the rough-hewn residents of the area. Until 1849, today's Liberty Street, then called Northern Row, was the corporation line forming Cincinnati's northern boundary. The area north of Northern Row was not subject to municipal law and was called "The Northern Liberties". In 1955, the city decided to widen Liberty Street to connect with Reading Road as an east-west crosstown access point for the interstate highway system. Buildings on the south side of the street were demolished and the street was widened from two to five lanes. As of 2019, efforts are underway to narrow Liberty Street to bridge the gap between these halves of the neighborhood.

Gentrification

Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood Revitalization

Over-the-Rhine, the site of the

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, became the city's most dangerous neighborhood by 2009. However, it has since seen intensive gentrification efforts. Private development corporations and city officials have begun to address the problems that come with a neighborhood with low employment and high crime rates. A

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strategy encourages private corporations rather than the city government to take on renewing and updating this area.

Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation

The

Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) is a private, non-profit real-estate development and finance organization focused on strategically revitalizing Cincinnati's downtown urban core in partnership with the City of Cincinnati and ...

(3CDC) is a private,

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real-estate development and finance organization focused on revitalizing Cincinnati's urban core with the city government and local corporations. Its work is focused on the central business district and in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. The organization is widely credited with revitalizing OTR. The organization began as a full-service real estate developer, but has since branched out and produces more than 1,000 events per year at the four civic spaces it manages: Fountain Square, Washington Park, Ziegler Park and Memorial Hall. In July 2003, 3CDC was formed by former mayor of Cincinnati

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and other corporate community members. This was a result of a recommendation by a City of Cincinnati Economic Development Task Force. Most funds are gathered through corporate contributions. In 2004, 3CDC accepted responsibility for overseeing Cincinnati New Markets Fund and Cincinnati Equity Fund. As of May 2018, those funds total over $250 million and have resulted in over $1.3 billion invested in downtown and Over-the-Rhine real estate projects.

Architecture

Over-the-Rhine has been praised for its collection of historic architecture. ''

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'' described the neighborhood as having "a scale and grace reminiscent of

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." Its architectural significance has also been compared to the

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and the historic districts of

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and

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.OTR Foundatio
Why OTR Matters
Accessed on 2010-08-13. When

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, founder of the Frommer's travel guides, visited Over-the-Rhine he described it as the most promising urban area for revitalization in the United States, and claimed that its potential for tourism "literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas."Over-the-Rhine Foundation
Historic Preservation
. Accessed on 2009-08-13. Most of Over-the-Rhine's ornate brick buildings were built by German immigrants from 1865 to the 1880s. The architecture of Over-the-Rhine reflects the diverse styles of the late nineteenth century— simple vernacular, muted Greek Revival,

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and Queen Anne. Most of the buildings in Over-the-Rhine are one of these styles, but other motifs include the

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American Building on Central Parkway; the Germania Building at Twelfth and Walnut streets, ironically one of the few examples of German ornamentation in the neighborhood; Music Hall, a mixture of styles best described as

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; a handful of buildings with

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; and the new SCPA on Central Parkway, the most notable example of

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in the neighborhood. File:Germania-Building-front.jpg, The Germania Building (Eastlake H) File:Cincinnati-Music-Hall-entrance.jpg, Music Hall (Venetian Gothic) File:HamiltonCountyMemorial.jpg, Memorial Hall ( Beaux Arts) File:OTR-1207-Elm-Street-Building.jpg, Elaborate ornamentation of an Elm Street building File:OTR-Rounded-Window-Cornices.jpg, Rounded window cornices are a common feature of Italianate architecture. File:OTR-Italianate-brownstone.jpg, Italianate greystone at Clay and 13th Streets. File:American-Building-entrance.jpg, Entrance to the American Building (Art Deco) File:OTR-Hanke-Building.jpg, Hanke Building on Main Street detail (Renaissance Revival) File:Over-the-Rhine-Queen-Anne-architecture.jpg, Queen Anne architecture on Main Street

New construction

Noted

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architect

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and his architectural firm of

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helped redevelop the historic neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s. Woollen designed the Over-the-Rhine Pilot Center (1972–84), a group of four

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, mixed-use buildings within a two-block area. The Pilot Center buildings included a recreational center, a senior citizens center, a Montessori school and daycare center, and a meeting and event space. Funding for the $2.5 million project came from the

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Historic restoration

In 2011 the Over-the-Rhine Foundation, which works to prevent historic building loss in OTR, won third place in the

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's nationwide "This Place Matters" community challenge. In 2006 the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the status of Over-the-Rhine as "Endangered." Since 1930, about half of Over-the-Rhine's historic buildings have been destroyed. More will follow unless deteriorating buildings are repaired. Between 2001 and 2006, the city approved more than 50 "emergency demolitions," which were caused by

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s' allowing their buildings to become so critically dilapidated that the city declared them a danger to the public. Reinvestment could have saved them. Due to the situation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation declared Over-the-Rhine one of Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places in 2006. Over-the-Rhine was included in the 2008 book, ''Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear'', which noted the district's "shocking state of neglect". According to

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in 2001, some of the worst-kept properties at the time were owned by Over-the-Rhine's non-profits, which let the buildings sit vacant and deteriorating because of lack of funds or volunteers. With some buildings on the verge of collapse, investors and real-estate developers are trying to restore them before deterioration to the point of requiring demolition. According to the

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in 2010, part of Over-the-Rhine had one of the highest rates of abandoned and vacant homes in the country. They classified it then as the sixth hardest area in the nation to get an accurate population count. In recent years there has been a burst of restoration and development slowly moving northward year by year from Central Parkway, with a focus on attracting local small businesses rather than national chains. Developers have restored and renovated the abandoned buildings, the city renovated nearby Washington Park, and businesses and residents have moved into what were abandoned spaces. Local chefs and artisan brewers in particular embraced the area, and in 2018

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called it "one of the country's most promising food scenes."

Demographics

In 2001 there were an estimated 500 vacant buildings in Over-the-Rhine with 2,500 residential units.Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Bridging the Economic Divide: Cincinnati's Crisis Presents New Opportunities
. Fall 2001. Retrieved on 2009-01-11 Of those residential units 278 were condemned as uninhabitable. Also in 2001 the owner-occupancy rate was between 3 and 4 percent compared to the citywide rate of 39 percent. According to the "Drilldown", a comprehensive analysis of the city's actual population and demographics conducted in 2007, OTR's current population was just 4,970. At the 2000

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, the racial makeup of Over-the-Rhine was 19.4%

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, 76.9%

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, and less than 4% of other races. 0.6% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos of any race. The neighborhood's residents comprise roughly 1.2% of the population of the City of Cincinnati. Recent gentrification has changed the demographic makeup of the area as residents moving in tend to have a higher income and are more likely to be white. By 2018 the website statisticalatlas.com was estimating OTR's population to be 34% white and 54% black, with 56% of those between the ages of 20 and 24 being white.

In media

* In the movie ''

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'',

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plays a politician who campaigns at

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in Over-the-Rhine. * In the movie ''

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'' (2000), the teenage daughter of the US drug czar becomes addicted to heroin and goes to Over-the-Rhine for drugs. * ''

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'' (2011), an

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legal comedy-drama, is set in Over-the-Rhine, though only old stock photos are shown. No filming was done in Over-the-Rhine or Cincinnati. * ''

Little Man Tate ''Little Man Tate'' is a 1991 American drama film directed by Jodie Foster (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Scott Frank. The film stars Adam Hann-Byrd as Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to self-act ...

'' (1991) was filmed in Over-the-Rhine as well as various other Cincinnati locations. * ''

A Rage in Harlem ''A Rage in Harlem'' is a 1991 American crime film directed by Bill Duke and loosely based on Chester Himes' novel ''A Rage in Harlem''. The film stars Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover, Badja Djola, Robin Givens and Gregory Hines. Producer Stephen W ...

'' (1991) was filmed in Over-the-Rhine because it resembled 1950s

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. * In ''

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'' (1988) scenes depicting Chicago in 1919 were shot in Over-the-Rhine. * Over-the-Rhine and other nearby neighborhoods are featured in the 3 Doors Down music video “ It's Not My Time”. * In music, the folk-rock group

Over the Rhine Over-the-Rhine (often abbreviated as OTR) is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Historically, Over-the-Rhine has been a working-class neighborhood. It is among the largest, most intact urban historic districts in the United Sta ...

took its name from the Cincinnati neighborhood, where the band first started in 1989. * Cincinnati-born vocalist

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references the neighborhood in the lyrics of the 2015

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song "I'm the Man to Be." * Electronic Music Producer "OTR" took his name from the Cincinnati neighborhood, when he saw the transformation it was undergoing mirrored his own.

List of annual events

A partial list of Over-the-Rhine’s distinctive annual events includes: *

Bockfest Bockfest is an annual beer festival held in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio on the first full weekend of March. It is the oldest German-style bock beer festival in the United States. It drew an estimated 20,000 attendees in 2013 and 30,000 in 20 ...

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Annual - Occurs the two weeks after Memorial Day * MidPoint Music Festival *

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Opening Day Parade from

Findlay Market Findlay Market in historic Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio, is the state's oldest continuously operated public market. The Findlay Market Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 5, 1972. The market is the la ...

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*Nowhere Else Music and Arts Festival

List of landmarks

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and are clustered in one area near Downtown. Over-the-rhine-map

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, founded in 1869, is a four-year arts college with its campus centered around 12th and Jackson streets. *

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, built in 1878, is a concert

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that hosts the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

. *

Emery Theatre The Emery Theatre, or Emery Auditorium, is a historic, acoustically exceptional theater located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The building was constructed in 1911 as the home for a trade school (the Ohio Mechanics Institu ...

was built as the original home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Famous conductor

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considered its acoustics comparable to

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. It is currently closed for renovations. * Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati In Over The Rhine since 1988, a theatre that presents new works and works that are new to the region. *

is the oldest continuously operated

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in Ohio.Findlay Market
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. *

Know Theatre of Cincinnati Know Theatre of Cincinnati is a non-profit theatre company located in the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, which produces contemporary and collaborative theatre that tends to be challenging and thought-provoking. MainStage ...

a theatre that produces contemporary theatre with new works and regional premieres. Know Theatre produces the annual

- the largest performing arts festival in Cincinnati. *

is the home of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the progressive MusicNow festival, and the

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. *

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is the first K-12 selective arts school in the United States. In 2009 the school was the subject of the

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''. * Washington Park, the second oldest park in the city behind

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, originally established as a burial ground for several small churches. *

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List of historic churches

* St. Paulus Kirche, 1419 Race Street, German Evangelical Protestant (Oldest Protestant church in the city) * German Baptist Church, Walnut and Liberty Streets * Old St. Mary's Church, 123 E. Thirteenth Street * Philippus United Church of Christ, West Mcmicken and Ohio Avenues * St. John the Baptist Church, Green and Bremen Streets *

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, Vine and Liberty Streets * St. Paul Church, East 12th and Spring Streets * Salem United Church of Christ, 1425 Sycamore Street *

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, 1310 Race Street (Known as Over-the-Rhine Community Methodist Church since 2015) * Wesley Chapel, 76 E. McMicken Avenue *Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 1528 Race Street *First Lutheran Church, 1208 Race Street *St. John's Unitarian Church, 1205 Elm Street

Notable people

* Buddy Gray, community activist *

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, 1944

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References

External links

Over-The-Rhine Chamber of CommerceCincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Over-The-Rhine German-American history German communities in the United States German-American culture in Cincinnati Historic districts in Cincinnati National Register of Historic Places in Cincinnati Neighborhoods in Cincinnati Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio