The page contains before and after photos documenting King-Lincoln historic buildings. For simplicity’s sake, this includes all the area between I-71, I-670, Broad Street and Alum Creek. Only buildings constructed before 1930 are included and are organized alphabetically by street name.

**Last Updated: 10/21/2023- Added to Woodland Avenue and updated some After photos from 2015 and earlier.

Existing Historic Buildings

Broad Street
1. Broad Street Presbyterian Church: 760 E. Broad Street: 1894

2. Erwin Schueller House: 904 E. Broad Street: 1904

3. Cambridge Arms Apartments: 926 E. Broad Street: 1928

4. Broad-Ohio Apartments: 1160-1190 E. Broad Street: 1924

5. Temple Tifereth Israel: 1354 E. Broad Street: 1927

6. John Baker House: 1400 E. Broad Street: 1853

7. Frederick Shedd House: 1444 E. Broad Street: 1903

8. Henry Werner House: 1640 E. Broad Street: 1914

Brunson Avenue
1. Residential Building: 8-44 Brunson Avenue: 1922

Burt Street
1. Nellie Arnold House: 299 Burt Street: Around 1905

Eighteenth Street
1. Residential House: 164-168 N. 18th Street: 1902

Garfield Avenue
1. Residential House: 186 N. Garfield Avenue: Around 1890

Hamilton Avenue
1. Herman Hoster House: 43 Hamilton Avenue: 1888

2. Foster Copeland House: 50 Hamilton Avenue: 1909

3. Harry Alexander House: 186 Hamilton Avenue: Around 1895

4. David Spindler House: 187 Hamilton Avenue: Around 1880

Hawthorne Avenue
1. William Simpler House: 1527 Hawthorne Avenue: 1906

2. Randolph Walton House: 1550 Hawthorne Avenue: 1906

Long Street
1. Alpha Hospital: 891 E. Long Street: Around 1920: The current look happened later after a remodel to change the hospital into a commercial and social services building.

2. Harry Olmstead House: 1582 E. Long Street: 1891

Maryland Avenue
1. Mary Bova House: 2001 Maryland Avenue: 1928

Menlo Place
1. Foster Burdell House: 1509 Menlo Place: Around 1900

2. Kay Krick House: 1524 Menlo Place: Around 1905

3. Wilfred Paine House: 1534 Menlo Place: Around 1905

Miami Avenue
1. Daniel Thomas House: 233 N. Miami Avenue: Around 1900

2. Residential House: 273-275 N. Miami Avenue: Around 1900

Monroe Avenue
1. Arthur Lawrence House: 233 N. Monroe Avenue: 1904

2. Frank Poland House: 461 N. Monroe Avenue: 1899

Seventeenth Street
1. Columbus Home for Colored Girls: 248 N. 17th Street: 1889

Sherborne Drive
1. Lawrence Wilcox House: 250 Sherborne Drive: 1924

Spring Street
1. Howard Arndt House: 940 E. Spring Street: 1893

St. Clair Avenue
1. Leila Keister House: 439 St. Clair Avenue: Around 1905

Stratford Way
1. Nellir Jones House 1900 Stratford Way: 1927

2. William Stump House: 1927 Stratford Way: Around 1915

Twentieth Street
1. George Early House: 108 N. 20th Street: 1896

2. Susannah Mull House: 189 N. 20th Street: 1898

3. Engine House #8: 285 N. 20th Street: 1884: The tower was demolished in 1968.

Twenty-First Street
1. Nelson Gant House: 200 N. 21st Street: Around 1890

2. William Scarlett House: 289-291 N. 21st Street: Around 1905

Twenty-Second Street
1. Residential Building: 23-29 N. 22nd Street: 1905

Winner Avneue
1. John Cashatt House: 57 Winner Avenue: 1899

Woodland Avenue
1. Grace Jones House: 31 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1910

2. Uri Tracy House: 43-45 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1905


3. Residential Building: 44 N. Woodland Avenue: 1920


4. Almer Armstrong House: 71 N. Woodland Avenue: 1905


5. William Miller House: 72 N. Woodland Avenue: 1908


6. John Wagenhals House: 223 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1899


7. Daniel Ryan House: 297 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1898


8. Alexander McCoy House: 402 N. Woodland Avenue: 1919

Demolished Buildings

Broad Street
1. Fred Prentiss House: 706 E. Broad Street: 1890-Around 1983: Demolished by the adjacent offices for a parking lot, which remains to the present day.

2. Robert Wolfe House: 714 E. Broad Street: Around 1890-1959: Demolished to expand the adjacent office building that still exists.

3. Frederick Schumacher House: 750 E. Broad Street: 1888-4/1961: After Frederick died in 1957, his estate- including the mansion- eventually landed in the hands of Huntington National Bank, which acted as a trustee and executor of his will. Huntington saw no real value in keeping the house given the attitudes, or lack thereof, toward historic preservation. It was merely another old house in the way of progress, and so one of the most impressive mansions in Columbus history was torn down over the course of a week. In its place, the bank and its partners proposed a 12-story, 200-room “luxury” hotel. However, because of zoning conflicts, the city pushed for offices or other development instead. Over time, nothing came of any proposals. It would be 26 years before the site had any other development, the current nondescript office building.

4. James Anderson House: 788 E. Broad Street: Around 1880-Around 1960: The house was demolished by the Broad Street Presbyterian Church for an expansion.

5. Trimble House: 812 E. Broad Street: 1873-1966: Demolished by the Broad Street Presbyterian Church to build the Ecumenical Center, a headquarters for multiple church agencies. The house had previously served as offices and later the Columbus Boys Choir School. Today the site is mostly green space and parking.

6. Governor James Cox House: 840 E. Broad Street: 1912-1940: Demolished, it seems, for a gas station. The gas station was demolished in 1971 and the current office building wasn’t completed until 1991.

7. Walter Brown House: 940 E. Broad Street: 1896-1953: Demolished to build a motel. The motel building, which was latere used as offices, was torn down in 2012, and the site is now used as a parking lot.

8. Harry Wolfe House: 974 E. Broad Street: 1907-1959: Unknown reason for demolition. The site remained vacant until 1976, when the current office building was completed.

9. Albert Halliday House: 994 E. Broad Street: 1873-1981: Unknown reason for demolition, but likely for the parking lot that still exists.

10. Bruce Lindsey House: 1000 E. Broad Street: 1905-1982: Seems to have been demolished for the existing parking lot that serves the office building that now has the 1000 E. Broad address. The original address as the corner of High and 20th.

11. George Hoster House: 1114 E. Broad Street: 1900-1961: Demolished to build an apartment complex. That complex was demolished in 2004 and the site now contains an apartment building for the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority.

12. Daniel Sowers House: 1134 E. Broad Street: 1899-1971: The Ohio State Life Insurance Company owned the property beginning in 1966 and was the owner when the house was demolished, so there may have been plans to build an office there. Those plans, or others if they existed, never happened and the site has remained a parking lot for the adjacent Columbus Metropolitan Housing complex.

13. Marie Wright House: 1460 E. Broad Street: 1910-1986: Demolished by the Franklin County Commissioners for unknown reasons. The site remains vacant.

14. Andre Crotti House: 1592 E. Broad Street: 1893-1968: Andre Crotti’s widow lived in the house until her death in December, 1966, and the house was passed to their daughter. The house was later demolished for unknown reasons. The site has been a parking lot for decades.

15. Dennis Kelly House: 1618 E. Broad Street: 1907-1961: Demolished to build Park Towers Condominiums.

16. Frank Stallman House: 1666 E. Broad Street: 1904-1988: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site remained vacant until a new housing development went up there in 2019.

Burt Street
1. Residential House: 199 Burt Street: Around 1905-1965: Demolished for parking for what was at the time St. Anthony Medical Center, now OSU East Hospital. The site remains parking today. Burt Street at this section no longer exists, so the 2019 photo was taken from the opposite direction of the home’s approximate location looking east from Hughes Street.

Hamilton Avenue
1. Emerson McMillan House: 52 Hamilton Avenue: 1887-Around 1911: Although the house is listed as 54 Hamilton in photo records, that address doesn’t exist in historical records. Instead, based on the architecture and roofline matches from Sanborns maps, it seems this home actually stood at 52 Hamilton Avenue. The exact date of its demolition is unknown, but likely around 1911 when the the home at 50 Hamilton was built on the site.

2. Wilbur Goodspeed House: 72 Hamilton Avenue: Around 1895-1964: Demolished to build the present apartment building.

Long Street
1. Herman Bloom House: 1416 E. Long Street: 1909-1990: Demolished for OSU East Hospital parking, which remains to the present day.

Miami Avenue
1. Timothy Reardon House: 183-185 N. Miami Avenue: Around 1900-1982: Unknown reason for demolition.

Monroe Avenue
1. Louisa Stafford House: 71 N. Monroe Avenue: Around 1895-1977: Demolished for unknowns reasons. The site is now a garden.

Mt Vernon Avenue
1. Vernon Theater: 1058 Mt Vernon Avenue: 1914-1978: Demolished to build Mt Vernon Plaza. The site is vacant.

Seventeenth Street
1. Howard Gillard House: 80 N. 17th Street: Around 1880-1969: Demolished to build a daycare center. That building was torn down in 2013 and the site now has new housing.

Twenty-First Street
1. Residential House: 189 N. 21st Street: Around 1890-1978: Unknown reason for demolition. The site remained vacant until a new house was built in 2005.

Woodland Avenue
1. Obed Taylor House: 193 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1880-1961: Unknown reason for demolition. The carriage house still exists.

2. Walter Crafts House: 214 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1890-1990: Demolished for unknown reasons, but seems to have been to construct the large driveway just to the south.


3. Frederick Miller House: 264 N. Woodland Avenue: 1911-1993: Unknown reasons for demolition, but today the site is still vacant.


4. Wesley Bates House: 385 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1905-1982: After serving as a youth home for several years, the house changed hands multiple times between 1975-1980, sitting abandoned and increasingly vandalized. It was finally demolished by the bank that took ownership in 1980. The lot remains vacant.