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German Village, the brick neighbourhood saved from the wrecking ball
Columbus, Ohio
Aaron Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Germans were a third of the city by 1865 and filled the south end with brick cottages and breweries. Anti-German feeling in both wars emptied it and it was slated for clearance, until a 1960 preservation society saved 1,600 buildings, now the largest privately funded historic restoration in the country.
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