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"A Northside man is trying to save a piece of neighborhood history.\u00A0\"On the outside it looks like a decrepit old building, but once you get upstairs you see the ballroom and you realize a special building it really is,\" said Jerome Wilson.\u00A0The Farmers Hotel was built in 1859, and now it's in danger of being demolished.\u00A0\"In the fall the slaughterhouses of Cincinnati would open because there was no refrigeration at that time, so they had to do it in the cool weather and all the farmers would drive their hogs down to market and they would use the turnpikes,\" Wilson said.\u00A0The hotel housed weary farmers and their hogs, which stayed outside in a corral, before they continued on to Cincinnati.\u00A0\"On the left side was the restaurant and on the right side was a saloon, upstairs on the second floor were the rooms where people could stay and the third floor is a dance hall,\" Wilson said.\u00A0He's working with the Cincinnati Northside Community Urban Redevelopment Corp. in hopes of saving the historic building.\u00A0Wilson hopes to see a restaurant and bar someday at the site, but there are some hurdles to clear.\u00A0The planning and buildings department must approve the site's historical landmark status Friday, and then City Council must vote on it.\u00A0Wilson said there's not much time to lose.\u00A0\"Every time it rains hard like that I think about how much water is leaking in,\" he said.\u00A0If the landmark status is approved, the building will be boarded up and closed off to help keep out the weather before redevelopment can take place."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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