King-Lincoln Historic Buildings




King-Lincoln historic buildings Columbus Ohio

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: 8/27/2024- Added to Winner Avenue.

Existing Historic Buildings

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

Photo taken in 1897.

Photo taken in 2016.

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

Photo taken in 1970.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

Photo taken in 1948.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1948.

Photo taken in 2012.

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

Photo taken in 1945.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1990.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

Photo taken in 1915.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

Photo taken in 1915.

Photo taken in 2011.

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

Photo taken in 1957.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

Photo taken in 1965.

Photo taken in 2020.

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

Photo taken in 1963.

Photo taken in 2015.

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

Photo taken in 1976.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

Photo taken in 1912.

Photo taken in 2014.

2. Foster Copeland House: 50 Hamilton Avenue: 1909

Photo taken in 1913.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

Photo taken in 1920.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

King-Lincoln historic buildings 187 Hamilton Avenue

Photo taken in 1961.

187 Hamilton Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.

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

Photo taken in 1943.

Photo taken in 2019.

2. Randolph Walton House: 1550 Hawthorne Avenue: 1906

King-Lincoln historic buildings 1550 Hawthorne Avenue

Photo taken in 1959.

1550 Hawthorne Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.

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.

Photo taken around 1925.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1900.

Photo taken in 2015.

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

Photo taken in 1943.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1964.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

King-Lincoln historic buildings

Photo taken in 1971.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

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Photo taken in 1957.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

Photo taken in 1964.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1956.

Photo take in 2015.

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

Photo taken in 1928.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

Photo taken in 1988.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

King-Lincoln historic buildings 248 N. 17th Street

Photo taken in 1920.

248 N. 17th Street Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.

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

Photo taken in 1942.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

King-Lincoln historic buildings 940 E. Spring Street

Photo taken in 1963.

940 E. Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.

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

Photo taken in 1959.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1954.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1961.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1897.

Photo taken in 2017.

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

Photo taken in 1963.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

Photo taken in 1901.

Photo taken in 2019.

Twenty-First Street
1. Isaac Lester House: 157 N. 21st Street: Around 1900

King-Lincoln historic buildings 155-157 N. 21st Street

Photo taken in 1962.


155-157 N. 21st Street, Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


2. Nelson Gant House: 200 N. 21st Street: Around 1890

Photo taken in 1963.


Photo taken in 2014.


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

Photo taken in 1965.


Photo taken in 2019.

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

Photo taken in 1969.

Photo taken in 2016.

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

Photo taken in 1900.


Photo taken in 2017.


2. Robert Jeffrey House: 71 Winner Avenue: 1902
King-Lincoln historic buildings 71 Winner Avenue

Photo taken in 1962.


71 Winner Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2024.

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

Photo taken in 1915.


31 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


2. Uri Tracy House: 43-45 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1905
King-Lincoln historic buildings 43 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1962.


43-45 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


3. Residential Building: 44 N. Woodland Avenue: 1920
King-Lincoln historic buildings 44 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1964.


44 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


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

Photo taken in 1913.


71 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.


5. William Miller House: 72 N. Woodland Avenue: 1908
King-Lincoln historic buildings 72 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1915.


72 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.


6. John Wagenhals House: 223 N. Woodland Avenue: Around 1899
King-Lincoln historic buildings 223 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1900.


223 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


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

Photo taken in 1900.


Photo taken in 2017.


8. Alexander McCoy House: 402 N. Woodland Avenue: 1919
King-Lincoln historic buildings 402 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1964.


402 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.



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.

Photo taken in 1900.

Photo taken in 2018.

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

Photo taken in 1915.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1892.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1889.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1947.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1915.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1897.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1948.

Photo taken in 2018.

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

Photo taken in 1948.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1970.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1901.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1901.

Photo taken in 2016.

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

Photo taken in 1913.

Photo taken in 2018.

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.

Photo taken in 1962

Photo taken in 2015.

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

Photo taken in 1915.

Photo taken in 2014.

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.

Photo taken in 1913.

Photo taken 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.

Photo taken in 1964.

Photo taken in 2019.

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.

Photo taken in 1889.

Photo taken in 2016.

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

King-Lincoln historic buildings 72 Hamilton Avenue

Photo taken in 1900.

72 Hamilton Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.

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

King-Lincoln historic buildings 1416 E. Long Street

Photo taken in 1910.

1416 E. Long Street Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2021.

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

Photo taken in 1963.

Photo taken in 2015.

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

Photo taken in 1900.

Photo taken in 2019.

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

Photo taken in 1914.

Photo taken in 2019.

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.

Photo taken in 1920.

Photo taken in 2016.

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.

Photo taken in 1963.

Photo taken in 2014.

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

Photo taken in 1890.


193 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


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.
King-Lincoln historic buildings 214 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1960.


214 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


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

Photo taken in 1960.


264 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.


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.
King-Lincoln historic buildings 385 N. Woodland Avenue

Photo taken in 1960.


385 N. Woodland Avenue Columbus, Ohio

Photo taken in 2022.