It might not make lists of famous local architecture, but 120-year-old Longworth Hall still has a story to tell about Cincinnati — even as a chunk of it disappears for the Brent Spence companion bridge.

Five stories up on the roof of the sprawling, 1,160-foot-long former railroad warehouse, the hum of cars on interstate 75 mixes with the sounds of trains leaving nearby Queensgate Yard.

Ohio Department of Transportation's Matt Bruning is leading a tour of the building. ODOT owns the building now. Bruning says the portion we're standing on won't be around much longer thanks to the massive Brent Spence project.

"You'd be on the new bridge — or under it," he says, pointing out where the coming companion bridge will arc over the Ohio River. "It'll be taller than this."

If you've driven over

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