Capitol Trust Building
Columbus ohio
Date: 5/20/1906
Address: 8 Broad St E
with "These are My Jewels" statue in the foreground.
A selection of architectural designs of Frank packard and packard & yost
The image above is the Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Designed by Frank Packard, the hospital was constructed between 1908 and 1915. Built at a cost of $2.1 million, it was the largest poured-concrete structure in the country until superseded by the Pentagon. Its walls are at least 14 inches thick, with steel reinforcement going right down to bedrock. In 1982 it was converted to the Lima Correctional Institute.
The image below is a caricature of Frank Packard, from the publication Club Men of Columbus in Caricature OH920.0772 I65c, p. 242., 1896 .
Packard was involved in the design of commercial buildings; hotels and clubs; university buildings; schools, churches, and libraries; government and hospital buildings; and residences. Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff have 16 homes on record that are Packard designs. The samples of his designs depicted below are organized into the above categories. Many dates listed are currently approximate, pending more in depth research. More information about each design shown can be seen by clicking on the image.
commercial buildings
Columbus ohio
Date: 5/20/1906
Address: 8 Broad St E
with "These are My Jewels" statue in the foreground.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1893
Address: 34 3rd St S
Demolished in 1923 (to erect the Columbus Dispatch headquarters)
Columbus ohio
Date: 1903/1925
Address: 17 S. High St.
Opened as Harrison Building (1903). In 1916, Huntington Bank opened its headquarters there. In 1925 a Packard design was used to build a new structure against the Harrison Building’s north wall, and a facade was then wrapped around the front of the old and new buildings.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1901
Address: 16 East Broad
Not designed by Frank Packard (Chicago architects Nimmons & Fellows) but is significant here because it was the location of Packard's office in the top floor penthouse
Listid in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009
ironton ohio
Date: 1922
Address: 1120 South Third Street, Ironton, Ohio
Cost: $200,000
Currently U.S.Bank
Columbus ohio
Date: April 18, 1896.
Address: 379 Broad St W
Architect: Yost and Packard
Closed 1930 - Became a Volunteers of America center in 1931
chillicothe ohio
Depot built: 1912
Interurban operated: 1904-1930
The Scioto Valley Traction interurban traveled from Rich and Third through German Village south on 3-rail tracks through Kingston to Chillicothe
columbus ohio
Date: 1924
Address: 150 E. Broad (Broad and Fourth)
Style: Beaux Arts - Historism
Abuts the Athletic Club to the West. Completed after Packard's death, it was briefly the headquarters of the Columbus Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
(Spelled "Yuester" in AIA documents)
columbus ohio
Date: 1897
Address: 570 Front St N
Collapsed under a heavy snow load February 18, 1910.
Originally opened, 3/17/1885, as the Park Roller Skating Rink and was extensively remodeled by Yost and Packard to become the Columbus Auditorium. Site housed Columbus Bicycle Stadium and the Fairmont Arena
columbus ohio
Date: c1906
Address: 356 Mt. Vernon Ave. (now 322 Mt. Vernon)
Originally designed as a manufactuting facility for the Kinnear & Gager Mfg. Co., it was purchased and added to in 1920 by Franklin O. Schoedinger for his sheet metal operations. Curently the home of BalletMet.
hotels and clubs
Columbus ohio
Date: 1895
Address: 205 High St N
There were 3 Chittenden Hotels, since the first two were destroyed by fire.
Architect: Yost and Packard (Hotel #3) , George Bellows of Packard and Yost (Hotel #2)
Dates: 1889 (hotel #1) 1892( hotel #2) 3/16/1895 (Hotel #3)
Closed: 3/15/1972
demolished: 2/1973.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1917
Address: 361 Broad St E
Used as women's dorms for several schools. In 1973 it became the state EPA headquarters.
Renovated: 2008 - Apartments
Built on the site of L. Jerome Spengler's home
Listed on the National Register of Historical Places 1983
Columbus ohio
Date: 1908
Address 48 3rd St N
Formerly known as Virginia Apartments, opened as an apartment building; opened as a hotel in 1911. First announced 5/16/1906 as a "Bachelor's Hall" with 48 rooms
The Hotel was named after owner Frederick Schumacher's wife Virginia.
Razed: 1961 - replaced by the Sheraton Plaza which opened, 11/17/1963
Built on the site of the Central Christian Church.
frankfort kentucky
Date: 1922
Address: 130 West Main, Frankfort KY
Built by famous Frankfort contractor Leo Oberwarth. Became State National Bank in 1964. Owned by the Whittaker Trust from Lexington since 1985.
middletown ohio
Date: 1922
Address: 1027 Manchester Ave.
Closed: 2011
The Manchester Inn once hosted former President Ronald Reagan and John Philip Sousa and served as the home base for AK Steel executives. Its second-floor ballroom has one of the largest wooden dance floors in Ohio. It has been nominated to be included on the National Register of Historic Places, and is soon to be renovated.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1914
Address: 256 Broad St E
Architects: Packard, Frank L and Bassett, G
Date: 10/19/1914 (cornerstone laid) 12/15/1915 (dedicated)
Became Midland Mutual building in 1946
Columbus ohio
Date: 1915
Address: 136 East Broad Street
Architects: Richards, McCarty & Bulford with Frank L. Packard as Advisory Architect
The six-story brick clubhouse is an example of Spanish Renaissance Revival with Italian influence,.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1904
Address: 4831 Broad St E
Dates: 11/19/1904 (opened); 1/11/1962 (burned)
10/28/1962 began new facility; opened 11/24/1963
250 acres in the original purchase.
Columbus invitational contests held 1946-47
parkersburg, west virginia
Date: 1903
Address: 900 Market St.
Three-story, three-bay wide, red brick building with stone trim in the Classical Revival style. It features elliptical bays flanking the central bay on the front facade.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and it is a contributing property to the Avery Street Historic District, which was designated and listed on the National Register in 1986.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1898
Address: 34 4th St N
Dates: 8/31/1898 (groundbreaking) 11/14/1899 (dedicated)
Additions added (not Packard designs)
Later incorporated the Corrodi Hotel.
renovated as Columbus Atheneum.
isted on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 under the name "Masonic Temple"
columbus ohio
Date: Pre-1913
Address: Atlas Building, Columbus
Designed by Frank Packard. The Ohio Club was an exclusive club for prominent business and industry leaders in Columbus. It merged with the Athletic Club in 1913, and in 1915 moved to its new building on Broad Street.
university buildings
ohio state university, Columbus ohio
Built: 1898
Address: 60 Oval Dr N
Architect: Yost and Packard - Packard, Frank L
Example of the French Feudal architectural style. It was
destroyed in a fire and was located on the current site of the OSU Wexner Center for the Arts.
Demolished: 1/7/1959
ohio state university, Columbus ohio
Date: 1892
Northeast portion (original boiler house): designed by Packard & Yost, built by Lewis C. Newson, completed 1892. Northwest portion (boiler house addition) and southwest portion (original engine house): designed by Packard & Yost, built by F.M. Fornof, completed 1896.
Also known as the Power Plant, Power Plant No. 2, Old Power Plant, Service Building, and occasionally "Rinso Hall" due to its use at one time as a laundry facility.
Demolished: c1986
ohio state university, Columbus ohio
Date: 1906
Address: 124 17th Ave W
Constructed in the English Renaissance style.
Name changed to Lord Hall in 1912 in honor of Nathaniel Wright Lord, professor of metallurgy.
Demolished:2009
ohio state university, Columbus ohio
Date: 1893
Address: 155 S. Oval Mall
July 16, 1970, added to the National Register of Historic Places
Orton Hall, one of the oldest remaining buildings on Ohio State University campus, opened in 1893 and is named after Dr Edward Orton, Sr. who served as OSU's first president, Professor of Geology from 1873 to 1899, and Ohio's State Geologist from 1882 until his death in 1899.
Ohio University, Athens ohio
Date: 1907
Demolished: 1966
Address: Park Place, College Green
Named for Margaret Boyd, the first female graduate of OU, Boyd Hall was a women's residence hall across from Gordy Hall. To make room for Alden Library, it was demolished in 1966, along with the Women's Gym and Tupper Hall (Old).
Ohio University, Athens ohio
Date: 1903 (Normal College Building)
Address: University Terrace, College Green
Ellis Hall was the first building in Ohio built for training teachers
North wing added in 1906, south wing in 1908, new front portico in 1963.
Ohio University, Athens ohio
Date: 1912
Address: College Green
Housed the School of Music. In 1970 it was named Gordy Hall and became the home of the philosophy department. In 1996-97 Gordy Hall underwent major renovations and expanded to the South. The first step in this process was the removal of the old natatorium. Gordy Hall reopened in 1998.
Ohio University, Athens ohio
Date: 1911
Address: 1 President Street
Now called the
President Street Academic Center
on the National Register of Historical Places
plan to demolish the building on the National Register touched off a fight with historic preservationists
miami university, oxford ohio
Date: 1910
Address: 350 East Spring Street, Oxford, Ohio
Architectural style: Lombardic Romanesque
Built with a $40,000 matching grant from Andrew Carnegie
miami university, oxford ohio
Date: 1909
Address: Campus and Spring, Oxford, Ohio
Architectural style: Georgian
Originally the South Pavilion of the Ohio State Normal College. Named for William Holmes McGuffey, of the McGuffey Reader. The present McGuffey Hall structure was built in three different sections. The original building was constructed in 1909.
Wings were added in 1915 and 1916, and another in 1925. In 1939 extensive alteration and fireproofing was done to the southwest wing, in 1966 the North half was remodeled and in 1971, the south half was remodeled.
wilberforce University, near Xenia ohio
Date: 1913
Constructed using student labor,
Exemplifies the symmetrical massing and fenestration of Colonial Revival style architecture.
Served as a women’s dormitory
Undergoing renovation
Listed on the National Register of Historical Places 2005
ohio wesleyan university, delaware ohio
Date: 1905
Address: S. Sandusky St.
All references are to J.W. Yost and Feick & Son as the architects, but early records indicate that preliminary design work was done with both Frank Packard and Yost involved.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Undergoing renovation
ohio northern university, ada ohio
Date: 1915
Named for Henry Solomon Lehr, founder of the university. Originally, the university administrative offices occupied the first floor rooms flanking the front entrance. The front section of the second floor contained the library, while the law library was on the south side of the second floor. The third floor housed five large classrooms and two private offices for the Commercial College. To the rear of the building a 1600 seat auditorium provided improved facilities for chapel services, theatrical and musical performances, and lectures.
schools , churches and libraries
Columbus ohio
Date: 10/23/1892.
Address: 26 21st N (also 1080 E Broad St)
Architect: Yost and Packard
Later became Pilgrim Baptist Church.
Columbus ohio
Date: 5/3/1896.
Address: 1235 4th St S. / 119 E. Gates
Columbus ohio
Date:1887, 1894; 1902, 1908, 1924
Address: 760 Broad St E
Style: Romanesque
The main church was constructed in stages: the first two were under the architectural design oversight of Elah Terrell. Frank Packard was hired to oversee the 1906-1908 expansion of the sanctuary and redesign of the interior. The 4th phase,
beginning in 1920, was the addition of the "church house", including a dining room, gym, and parlors, and the World War I Memorial Lobby. Packard was the consulting architect, but died before its completion in 1924.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
bucyrus ohio
Date: 1901
Address: 999 State Route 98 south of Bucyrus in Bucyrus Township, Crawford County, Ohio.
It is currently the home of Lighthouse Baptist church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1903
Address: 787 East Broad
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986
Architectural style: Late Gothic Revival
green lawn cemetary, Columbus ohio
Date: 1902
Address: 1000 Greenlawn Ave.
Style: classic Roman
rotunda of fitted mosaic tile and carved plaster. Tiffany’s of New York was commissioned to design and install the two grand stained glass windows and two mosaic murals representing Truth and Wisdom.
Later expanded to its current capacity. The mausoleum serves as the final resting place for about 100-200 people, including former Pelatiah Huntington and Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes.
Cost: $24,827
Listed on the National Register of Historical Places 2007
Columbus ohio
Date: 1896
Address: 1235 4th Street S
Now known as Gates Fourth United Methodist Church (corner of Gates and Fourth (Mozart) )
Cost: $6,000
Columbus ohio
Date: 1891
Address: 1395 Fair Ave
Packard was paid $672.00 for his design.
Style: Richardson Romanesque
Built for $32,692.00.
Now houses the A+ Arts Academy.
Worthington ohio
Date: 1915
Address: 777 Evening Street, Worthington
The building, now known as the Packard Annex, was built in 1915 on the school farm lot. It was the Worthington's High School until 1952 when a new Worthington High School was built to accommodate the boom in births after the end of World War II. It is now part of the Peggy McConnell Arts Center.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1892
Address: 100 W 4th Ave
Renamed Everett Junior High circa 1924
parkersburg west virginia
Date: 1917
Address: Washington Ave. from Park Ave. to Dudley Ave., including 2101 Dudley
Style: Jacobethan Revival
Listed to the National Register of Historical Places in 1992
Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District, is a national historic district
Wapakoneta Ohio
Date: 1908
Address: 405-409 S. Blackhoof St., Wapakoneta, Ohio
Style: mix of architectural styles
Designed by architects Frank Packard and W.M. Runkle
Cost: $41,315
In the mid-1920s, it was expanded with the construction of a gymnasium, a library, and an addition. Astronaut Neil Armstrong graduated from here.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996
westerville ohio
Date: 1896
Address: 44 N. Vine St., Westerville, Ohio
Architectural style: Romanesque Revival
Today the school is referred to as the Emerson Magnet school which specializes in teaching children foreign languages and cultures.[
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975
gahanna ohio
Date: 1889
Address: 106 Short St, Gahanna, Ohio
Better known as the Old Gahanna Schoolhouse, this building served as a school for 55 years, then as a nursing home for 20 years and finally converted to office space in 1978.
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979
Fairmont West Virginia
Date: 1914
Address: 2 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia
Annex (Ittner, consulting architect) added in 1928.
The original building is Colonial Revival in style with Jacobethan style detailing in the entrance surrounds.
Llisted on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013
Granville, Ohio
Date: 1923
Address: 217 E Broadway, Granville, OH
Packard designed the library to complement the Granville Inn; the stone for the library was obtained locally. Packard died before the building was completed, so the firm Snyder, Babbitt and Mathews that grew out of Packard's office, took on the project.
GOVERNMENT and hospitals
Columbus ohio
Date: 1893
Address: corner of Miller and Fair Avenues
9 beds; hospital was open to patients between the ages of one and sixteen; no patient could stay longer than three months without a physician’s request and board review; and, no cases of infectious disease were accepted.
mt. vernon ohio
Date: 1909
Address: Mt. Vernon, Ohio
The Ohio State Sanitorium was recommended by the Society for Prevention of TB in 1904. Packard was chosen to design the sanitorium according to his "Cottage Plan". Mt. Vernon was chosen from over 100 sites, and construction was done by Rob't Evans and Co. on 300 acres. It is now called the Mount Vernon Developmental Center. The dedication brochure can be viewed at the Ohio History Connection OhioMemory web site. Packard also designed the Mount Logan TB Sanitorium in Chillicothe, which operated from 1918 until 1970.
athens ohio
Date: 1868 and following
Address: OH 682 and Richland Avenue, Athens Ohio
AKA: Athens State Hospital; The Ridges
Original architect: Levi Scofield
Landscape architect: Herman Haerlin
Designed according to the Kirkbride plans. Architect Frank Packard designed the renovation and additions to the main building, as well as cottages according to the Cottage Plan (seven cottages were added on the grounds).
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- 1980
delaware, ohio
Date: 1891, 1905-08
Address: Delaware, Ohio
Founded in 1869 on the west bank of the Scioto River, GIS occupied as much as 189 acres. The institution was located on the grounds of the former White Sulphur Springs, a resort established in 1847. On February 24, 1874, a fire destroyed several of the buildings, but the State of Ohio rebuilt the destroyed structures and, over the years, added several additional buildings.
Packard was chosen to design the buildings on the site according to his "Cottage Plan".
massillon ohio
Date: 1893
Address: 3000 Erie St. SW
AKA: Eastern Ohio Insane Asylum
Packard's firm was chosen as a result of their "cottage plan" proposal for the first state hospital in the US and Canada. Multiple "cottage" buildings were built, and Packard continued designing over the next years for additional buildings. Only two of the original buildings remain.
lancaster, ohio
Date: 1898, 1905-10
Address: Lancaster, Ohio
The establishment of the Ohio Reform Farm (or Boys Industrial School) was authorized by the Ohio General Assembly on April 7, 1856. Located on 1,170 acres five miles south of Lancaster, Ohio, the Ohio Reform Farm was the first institution in the United States to be operated on the "Cottage Plan," which is why Packard was chosen to design the buildings on the site.
tiffin, ohio
Date: Proposed - 1893; Construction: began 1896 and continued for several decades
Address: 600 N. River Road, Tiffin, Ohio
Style: Gothic
Closed: 1944
Located on a nearly 650-acre property along the Sandusky River in Seneca County, the National Orphans Home was designed for the "Cottage Plan," for which Packard was an architect of note. The Orphans Home closed in 1944, as Social Security phased out its use for orphanages. The state of Ohio purchased the property, and it functioned as an epilepsy center and then a state hospital before the state-run Tiffin Developmental Center began providing a residence in 1981 for people who have developmental disabilities. In 1990 the home was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a District.
Springfield, ohio
Date: 1895
Address: West McCreight Ave., Springfield, Ohio
Closed: 1944
Located on a 84-acre property donated by the City of Springfield in Clark County, the Orphans Home was a "Cottage Plan" design. The Orphans Home closed in 1944 and the Sisters of Mercy bought the ornate buildings and in 1945 reopened some of the facilities as Mercycrest, a home for the elderly.
Marion Indiana
Date: 1916
Address: Euclid and Wabash, Marion, Indiana
Architect: Frank Packard
Name changed to Marion General Hospital in 1935.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1903
Address: 280 Broad St E
Later became the Center for Science and Industry (COSI) in 1964.
Construction contract for $211,305.
Renovated: 2001
springfield ohio
Date: 1916
Address: Main and Lowry, Springfield Ohio
AKA: Clark County Memorial Hall
In 1918 Memorial Hall housed the Clark Country Court and several county offices after the courthouse fire. From 1926 to 1985 the hall also served as home to the Clark County Historical Society.
Closed:
1985, Demolished: 2010
bowling green ohio
Date: 1893 – 1896
Address: 1 Courthouse Square / Court Street
Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
Architect: Yost & Packard
Contractor: T B Townsend, Zanesville
Cost: $255,746
The building faces south and is a three story Amherst sandstone, Vermont granite and marble structure. A high square stone tower rises 195 feet with large clock. On the north side is the modern five story County Administration Building.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; in an Historic District
st. clairsville ohio
Date: 1885 – 1888
Address: 101 West Main Street / North Market Street
Style: Beaux Arts
Architect: Joseph Warren Yost
added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
fairmont west virginia
Date: 1897 – 1900
Address: 219 Adams Street / Jefferson Street
Style: Beaux Arts
Architect: Yost and Packard
Contractor: Westwater and Company, and C A Abernathy
On the south side is the old Sheriff Residence with Jail.
The courthouse and the adjacent American Foursquare-style sheriff's residence, were jointly added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979
cadiz ohio
Date: 1893 – 1895
Address: 100 West Market Street / Main Street
Style: Second Empire
Architect: Yost & Packard
Contractor: E M Long
The building was renovated in 1993.
Listed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1974
upper sandusky ohio
Date: 1900 – 1901
Address: 109 South Sandusky Avenue / East Wyandot Avenue
Style: Beaux Arts / Classical Revival
Architect: Yost & Packard
Contractor: Christian Boseker & Son
Wyandot County Courthouse and Jail listed on the National Register of Historic Places 1973
ottowa ohio
Date: 1912
Address: 245 E. Main Street
Beaux-Arts style of architecture
Cost: $200,000
Listed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1974
logan ohio
Date: 1923 – 1924
Address: 1 East Main Street / South Market Street
Style: Neo-Clasical
Contractor: E H Latham Company of Columbus
Note: Construction of the building began on August 23, 1923 and Frank L Packard, the architect died on November 9, 1923. The firm of Snyder, Babbitt and Mathews was employed to complete the building.
residences
marion ohio
Date: 1920
Address: Marion Ohio
Known as stick style architecture the house was designed by Warren Harding and his wife and constructed in a neoclassical architecture style. The porch, known as the home of the Front Porch Campaign of 1920, was influenced by the Queen Anne era in that it wraps around the house. Highly stylized and decorative versions of the Stick style are often referred to as Eastlake architecture.
granville ohio
Date: c1905
Address: 537 Jones Road, Granville ohio
Style: Georgian Federal
Architect: Packard (extensive renovation)
Original villa: Italianate Villa style, 3 story tower flanked by two wings. Packard added wings, increased width by 40', added portico, using the same quarry stone as the original villa, and added carriage house, laundry and horse barn. Granville purchased the property in 2002.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, as McCune's Villa (after name given by 2nd owner)
Columbus ohio
Date: 1904
Address: 1234 East Broad
Packard was paid $672.00 for his design.
Style: Colonial Revival and/or Neo-Georgian eclectic
It was designed by Frank Packard for industrialist Charles H. Lindenberg.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972
Currently occupied by the Columbus Foundation.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1898
Address: 153 Woodland
Edward Denmead was a director for the Columbus Evening Post, Democratic which began December 4, 1888. He also was one of the first people to buy tracts of land and lay out the area that would become Grandview Heights in the Columbus area.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1910
Address: 2000 Indianola
Style: Tudor Revival
designed with English Tudor influences — steeply gabled roofs, half timbering on the upper story, paired windows, and first floor brick and second floor stucco. Its west and south elevations have distinctive gabled ends
washington courthouse ohio
Date:
Address: Court and Main
Dahl was Treasurer of Midland Grocery
chillecothe ohio
Date: c1901
Address: 53 West Fourth
Style: Georgian Federal
Architect: Packard (extensive renovation)
Zimeroy Downs was the first Vice-President of the Citizens National Bank after it was founded in November 1900.
Was home for the Fraternal Order of Eagles by the late 1930s. In 1956 it became the home of the Ross County District Library.By 1960, the home also housed the Ross County Superintendant of Schools, Board of Education, Soldiers & Sailors Relief Commission, Welfare Department, and the State Auto Title Department.
columbus ohio
Date: Pre-1907
Address: on the Scioto River 7 miles north of Columbus
This home was featured in Gustav Stickley's publication The Craftsman in 1907
newark ohio
Date: Pre-1907
Address:
This home was featured in Gustav Stickley's publication The Craftsman in 1907
columbus ohio
Date: 1912
Address: 840 Broad St E
Governor James M Cox House was the governor's mansion from 1913-1914.
Built in 1912 for Edward K. Stewart, president of the Columbus Dry Goods Co.
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1908
Address: 2015 West Fifth
It was originally built by William K. Lanman, president of the Columbus Bolt Company, and his wife Harriet Sharp Lanman. Serving as an office building for more than 50 years, this Tudor Style manor house retains much of its interior detail, including fireplaces, ceiling treatment, and the original layout. The longest commercial tenant was the Burgess and Niple Company.
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1902
Address: 1269 Central (now 1539 Roxbury)
Demolished: 2004
Records indicate that the original Casparis house, built in 1895, burned down in 1899. A 1900 Columbus Dispatch article attributes the design of the new house on the site to Yost and Packard.
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1889
Address: Approx 1601 Roxbury
(Now located at 1490 Arlington)
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1896
Address: 1492 Roxbury
built on property in John Price and Charles Griswold's Arlington Place subdivision in Marble Cliff. Mr. Skeele was Yardmasterfor the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was a trustee for the Grandview Congregational Church, which he was involved in founding, and served on the Grandview school board
marble cliff ohio
Date: c1895
Address: Roxbury near Cardigan
It is hypothesized that this structure is a Packard design. One of several structures that existed on the 17 acres originally purchased by Mr. John F. Miller, from the Arlington Place developers Timothy J. Price and family. Mr. Miller was an executive with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago RR Company and resided in Richmond, Indiana.
Razed c1908 for construction of the Bush mansion.
marble cliff ohio
Date: c 1890
Address: 2101 W. Fifth, between Roxbury and Dublin Road
This stately home was the residence of John E. Price, one of the founders of what is now Marble Cliff. Records indicate that the house was destroyed in about 1914
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1908
Address: 1425-1427 Arlington
Marble Cliff Quarry owner, Sylvio Casparis, commissioned Packard to build a three-story Scottish- style castle just south of his home on the bluff. It is said that Mr. Casparis climbed the five-story tower which still stands at 1427 Arlington Avenue to see if his quarry men were working.
marble cliff ohio
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1906
Address: 1499 Roxbury
Built for J.F. Miller in 1908, it became the home of Willits Sawyer in 1917. Mr. Sawyer was an internationally known consulting engineer and the Vice-President of the E.W. Clark and Company Management Corp. in Columbus. Nestled on almost three acres at the NW corner of Cardigan and Roxbury, it encompassed lots 7 and 8 of the Arlington Place Subdivision.
grandview heights ohio
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1895
Address: 1600 Roxbury
Style: Carpenter Gothic
J. F. Miller, resident of Richmond, Indiana and executive for the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, owned 4.8 acres in the Arlington Place Subdivision of Price and Griswold. . In 1953 it was purchased by Garry and Mary Myers, who operated their Highlights for Children business in a part of the house.
In 1983 the house, considered a significant structure because of its architectural style and detailing, was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
marble cliff ohio
marble cliff ohio
Date: 1905
Address:Cambridge Place at First
Paul Lindenberg was the son of Charles Lindenberg, who started (among many business interests) the Columbus Piano Company. Paul was named manager of the company at approximately 25 years old. The name was changed to the Lindenberg Piano Co., specializing in catalogue sales.
grandview heights ohio
Date: 1906
Address: 1087 Lincoln Road
This home, originally owned by Theodore Lindenberg was designed by Frank Packard. Its interior atrium courtyard contains Tiffany designed lighting and hardware. Th Mediterranean style home was purchased in 1941 by Harold Voelker, and was recently sold to new owners. The house was the featured house for the 2003 Columbus Decorators'
ShowHouse, sponsored by the Women's Board of Columbus Museum of Art in cooperation with the American Society of Interior Designers.
Columbus ohio
Date: 1900
Address: 428 West Sixth, Columbus, Ohio
The house was later owned by Otterbein University, and in 1980 was purchased as part of the neighborhood renovation plans by Battelle Memorial Institute.
Note: The Columbus City Directory in 1910 lists the spelling of the last name as "Weinland"
Resources:
Central Ohio Buildings Collection, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Ohio Postcard Collection, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus Citizen Journal and Columbus Citizen Newspapers Collection, Grandview Heights Public Library (Photohio.org)
Ryerson and Burnham Archives, Art Institute of Chicago
Inland Architect and News Record, Hathi Trust Digital Library
Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Digital Resources
The Ohio State University Libraries Buckeye Stroll Locations
MassMu (Massillon Museum) Archives and Library
Collection of the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society
Ohio History Connection Online Collections Catalog
American Courthouses Archive (John Deacon)