Here are all the before and after photos for Short North historic buildings. This includes, among others, the neighborhoods of Italian Village, Victorian Village, Harrison West and the High Street corridor. Click on any photo to get a larger view.

Only buildings built before 1930 are included.

**Last Updated: 8/27/2024- Added to Fifth Avenue.

Existing Historic Buildings

Bradley Street
1. Nora Sigrist House: 537 Bradley Street: 1906

2. Earl Johnson House: 557 Bradley Street: Around 1900

3. Edmund Demorest House: 562 Bradley Street: Around 1900

Buttles Avenue
1. Residential Building: 16-24 Buttles Avenue: Around 1905

2. John Sater House: 114 Buttles Avenue: 1896

3. Saul Levy House: 122 Buttles Avenue: 1897

4. Joseph Schoene House: 130 Buttles Avenue: 1896

5. Charles Stribling House: 140 Buttles Avenue: 1895

6. Charles Woodward House: 172-174 Buttles Avenue: Around 1915

7. Robert Thompson House: 182 Buttles Avenue: Around 1895

8. St. Francis of Assissi Church: 386 Buttles Avenue: 1895

Delaware Avenue
1. Speros Marcus House: 951 Delaware Avenue: 1915

2. Jesse Spira House: 974-976 Delaware Avenue: 1895

3. Charles Fernald House: 984 Delaware Avenue: Around 1890

Dennison Avenue
1. Residential House: 633 Dennison Avenue: Around 1905

2. Residential House: 641 Dennison Avenue: Around 1905

3. Howard Ensminger House: 645 Dennison Avenue: Around 1905

4. Oscar Runyan House: 675-677 Dennison Avenue: 1890

5. Margaret Brodie House: 691-693 Dennison Avenue: Around 1905

6. Carl Frank House: 697 Dennison Avenue: 1904

7. Charles Jackson House: 701 Dennison Avenue: 1890

8. Samuel Eilberfeld House: 717 Dennison Avenue: Around 1900

9. John Brown House: 721 Dennison Avenue: 1899

10. Rodney Gregg House: 725 Dennison Avenue: 1880

11. William Supplee House: 731-735 Dennison Avenue: 1905

12. Bertran Woodward House: 737-739 Dennison Avenue: Around 1885

13. Jerry O’Shaughheusky House: 743 Dennison Avenue: Around 1885

8. Peter Sells House: 755 Dennison Avenue: 1894

9. William Fish House: 773 Dennison Avenue: 1890

10. Residential Building: 870-876 Dennison Avenue: 1913

11. Eliza Friends House: 889-891 Dennison Avenue: 1910

12. Allen Sells House: 892-894 Dennison Avenue: 1900

13. Lloyd Buckmaster House: 895 Dennison Avenue: 1899

14. John Elliot House: 925 Dennison Avenue: 1888

Fifth Avenue
1. James Puntenney House: 83 W. 5th Avenue: 1890

2. Bryant Griffith House: 299 W. 5th Avenue: 1895

3. William Hoyer House: 350 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1900

4. Linnie Shaw House: 421 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1900

First Avenue
1. Residential House: 119-121 W. 1st Avenue: 1903

2. Charles Staley House: 522 W. 1st Avenue: Around 1900

Fourth Avenue
1. Plymouth Congregational Church: 43 W. 4th Avenue: 1895: The church was significantly changed between 1911-1917.

Hamlet Street
1. Saint John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church: 720 Hamlet Street: 1898

2. Benjamin James House: 729-731 Hamlet Street: Around 1880

3. Residential House: 778-780 Hamlet Street: Around 1905

4. John Naddy House: 779-781 Hamlet Street: Around 1880

5. Residential House: 782-784 Hamlet Street: 1906

6. Thomas Kuhn House: 807 Hamlet Street: Around 1880

7. Albert DeWitt House: 809 Hamlet Street: Around 1880

8. Horace Gowdy House: 819 Hamlet Street: Around 1885

9. Mary Kearins House: 823-825 Hamlet Street: Around 1905

10. Robert Lilley House: 828 Hamlet Street: Around 1885

11. Levi Kelley House: 838 Hamlet Street: Around 1885

12. Charles Doty House: 844-846 Hamlet Street: Around 1880

13. Residential House: 1037 Hamlet Street: Around 1910

14. Otto Gerber House: 1056 Hamlet Street: 1889

Highland Street
1. Anna Kitson House: 947-949 Highland Street: Around 1895

2. James Guitner House: 964 Highland Street: Around 1885

3. Margaret Watters House: 1025 Highland Street: Around 1895

4. Stephen Carhard House: 1050 Highland Street: 1875

5. Albert Hall House: 1051 Highland Street: Around 1885

6. Alvin Thompson House: 1112 Highland Street: Around 1880

7. Alfred Jalleff House: 1177 Highland Street: 1893

8. Lakin McKee House: 1209 Highland Street: Around 1870

9. Henry Bradford House: 1210 Highland Street: Around 1880

10. Ira Crum House: 1212-1214 Highland Street: Around 1890

11. James Rush House: 1216 Highland Street: Around 1910

12. William Hamilton House: 1219 Highland Street: 1893

13. Clarence Shockey House: 1230 Highland Street: Around 1890

14. John Beatty House: 1236 Highland Street: Around 1889

High Street
1. The Yukon Building: 601-615 N. High Street: 1885: The year of 1929 is shown near the roofline and under the building’s name, but this was a year of a significant renovation and not the construction year.

2. Ohio Auto Sales Company Building: 772-776 N. High Street: 1914

3. Greystone Court Apartments: 815 N. High Street: 1907

4. Northside Columbus Metropolitan Library Branch: 1100 N. High Street: 1929

5. Mixed-Use Buildings: 1201-1207 N. High Street: Between 1900-1910

6. Wirtz & Richey Ford: 1288 N. High Street: Around 1915

Hubbard Avenue
1. May Terrace Apartments: 28 W. Hubbard Avenue: 1899

2. Hubbard Avenue Elementary School: 104 W. Hubbard Avenue: 1895

Hunter Avenue
1. Charles Temple House: 919 Hunter Avenue: 1890

2. John Van Meter House: 961 Hunter Avenue: 1888

3. Miles McGowan House: 965 Hunter Avenue: 1887

4. Andrew Greener House: 969 Hunter Avenue: 1888

5. John Peyton House: 978-982 Hunter Avenue: 1887

6. William Ingram House: 1016 Hunter Avenue: 1893

7. Lewis Baker House: 1051 Hunter Avenue: 1888

8. Charles Fox House: 1173 Hunter Avenue: 1890

9. Milo Conklin House: 1183 Hunter Avenue: 1886

10. Charles Thompson House: 1189 Hunter Avenue: 1887

11. James Gissinger House: 1193 Hunter Avenue: 1889

12. Solomon Justice House: 1205 Hunter Avenue: Around 1890

Kerr Street
1. C.M. Williams Building: 648 Kerr Street: 1889

2. Delno Warden House: 812 Kerr Street: Around 1880

Lincoln Street
1. Martha Gillivan House: 60 E. Lincoln Street (left): Around 1885
2. Harry Yeiser House: 66 E. Lincoln Street (middle): Around 1880
3. Residential House: 68 E. Lincoln Street (right): Around 1910

Neil Avenue
1. Neil Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church: 618 Neil Avenue: 1890

2. Peter Hess House: 682 Neil Avenue: 1896

3. Frank Dean House: 698 Neil Avenue: 1898

4. John Davie House: 736 Neil Avenue: 1890

5. Charles Kinney House: 754 Neil Avenue: 1896

6. George Barrett House: 768 Neil Avenue: 1893

7. Dan Danehy House: 772 Neil Avenue: 1880

8. Charles Frankenberg House: 851 Neil Avenue: Around 1895

9. Residential House: 913 Neil Avenue: 1897

10. John Lloyd House: 957 Neil Avenue: 1895

11. John Rogers House: 1045 Neil Avenue: Around 1895

12. Amos Solomon House: 1100 Neil Avenue: 1897

13. Edson Emrick House: 1126 Neil Avenue: 1895

14. Leonard Gribbon House: 1164 Neil Avenue: 1893

15. George Mooney House: 1192 Neil Avenue: 1918

16. Lewis Sells House: 1223 Neil Avenue: 1898

17. Alfred Conklin House: 1237 Neil Avenue: 1893

18. John Millsom House: 1255 Neil Avenue: 1882

19. Charles Eckert House: 1260 Neil Avenue: 1895

20. Robert Caldwell House: 1265 Neil Avenue: 1893

Oregon Avenue
1. Margaret Wallace House: 1018 Oregon Avenue: Around 1905

2. Residential House: 1023-1025 Oregon Avenue: Around 1900

3. Harry McCann House: 1030 Oregon Avenue: Around 1900

4. Residential House: 1084 Oregon Avenue: 1924

5. Clarence Jones House: 1089 Oregon Avenue: Around 1910

6. Edward Thompson House: 1155-1157 Oregon Avenue: Around 1910

7. Minnie Somermier House: 1174 Oregon Avenue: Around 1910

8. Josephine Weisand House: 1177-1179 Oregon Avenue: Around 1910

9. John Kinnison House: 1183 Oregon Avenue: Around 1910

Poplar Street
1. Cornelius Cummins House: 248 W. Poplar Street: 1891

Second Avenue
1. F.L. Hughes House: 53 W. 2nd Avenue: 1890

2. Residential Building: 252-260 E. 2nd Avenue: Around 1900

Summit Street
1. Mitchell Howard House: 788 Summit Street: Around 1880

2. Anza Johnson House: 1153-1155 Summit Street: Around 1915

Third Avenue
1. Al G. Field House: 29 W. 3rd Avenue: Around 1895

2. James Ricketts House: 47 W. 3rd Avenue: 1891

3. Residential House: 72 E. 3rd Avenue: Around 1900

Warren Street
1. Ella Loudenslager House: 49-51 E. Warren Street: Around 1890

2. Margaret Holt House: 65-67 E. Warren Street: Around 1905

3. Eva Mays House: 102-104 E. Warren Street: Around 1890

4. Nathan Munshower House: 134 E. Warren Street: Around 1890

5. Residential House: 160-168 E. Warren Street: 1889

Demolished Historic Buildings

Brickel Street
1. Residential House: 125 Brickel Street: Around 1900-1962: Demolished to expand and rebuild 3rd Street.

Buttles Avenue
1. Harvey Reed House: 64 Buttles Avenue: 1896-1972: Unknown reasons for demolition, but a fire in 1964 may have played a role in its eventual demise. The site is now the side yard of 76 Buttles.

2. Residential House: 68-70 Buttles Avenue: Around 1900-1972: This home once served as the Alpha Kappa Kappa house in the early part of the 20th Century, and then later used as standard duplex. It was demolished for unknown reasons, but the lot remained vacant until the current residential buildings were constructed in 1994.

3. Edwin Vance House: 98 Buttles Avenue: Around 1890-1977: The house became the White Cross Nurses Home, also known as Hutchinson Hall, in 1894. It served as a home for nurses and other staff for what was originally the Protestant Hospital and later White Cross Hospital. The main White Cross Hospital was located at 700 N Park Street. The hospital closed in 1961, along with the Nurses Home. It became the House of Hope, a halfway house for alcoholics, in 1969, where it remained until demolition. It’s unclear why the building was demolished, but it appears to have been for a parking lot for the existing condo units.

4. Theophilus Rees House: 106 Buttles Avenue: Around 1890-Around 1968: Unknown reasons for demolition. The site was vacant until 2004.

Delaware Avenue
1. Domenica Orecchio House: 724 Delaware Avenue: Around 1900-1960: Demolished as part of a “urban renewal” project. The location of the house is now inside Wheeler Memorial Park. In the After image, the house would’ve faced away from the camera just south of where Collins Avenue would’ve met the original Delaware Avenue intersection.

2. Dennis Murphy House: 962 Delaware Avenue: Around 1890-1978: Demolished for unknown reasons. The current house on the site was built in 1996.

3. Emma Woodward House: 980 Delaware Avenue: Around 1890-1975: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site is now part of the yard of the adjacent house.

4. Charles Kutcshbach House: 987 Delaware Avenue: Around 1885-Around 1970: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site was vacant until the current house was built in 2003.

5. Joseph Hafford House: 1007 Delaware Avenue: Around 1880-1975: Demolished for unknown reasons. Remained vacant until the current building was constructed in 2003.

Dennison Avenue
1. Elah Terrell House: 749 Dennison Avenue: 1888-1947: Unknown reasons for demolition, but it may have been to expand the side yard of the Peter Sells house at 755 Dennison.

2. Stephen Davies House: 960-962 Dennison Avenue: 1887-1979: Demolished to build the current apartment complex.

3. Peter Suydam House: 963 Dennison Avenue: Around 1885-1980: Demolished to build the current apartment building.

4. Ernest Ricketts House: 1004 Dennison Avenue: 1890-1969: Demolished for unknown reasons. The current garage seems to have been built in the 1980s.

5. Benjamin Srigfreid House: 1005 Dennison Avenue: 1890-1960s: The exact date for the demolition is unclear, but likely occurred sometime between 1960-1965. The current building wasn’t constructed until 2016.

6. Residential House: 1016 Dennison Avenue: Around 1890-1975: Demolished to build the current building.

7. John Coulter House: 1025 Dennison Avenue: 1888-1969: Demolished for a parking lot that remained until 2016.

8. Herbert Sacket House: 1028 Dennison Avenue: Around 1900-1975: Demolished to build the current building.

9. Clem Tingley House: 1031 Dennison Avenue: Around 1885-1969: Demolished for a parking lot. The current building was constructed in 2016.

10. Israel Shumaker House: 1045 Dennison Avenue: Around 1885-1966: Demolished for the expansion of Doctor’s Hospital.

11. Joseph Starr House: 1087 Dennison Avenue: Around 1887-1966: Originally a private house, it became a hospital in 1892, the Keeley Institute. This later became the Radium Hospital in 1920 and Doctor’s Hospital in 1940. Doctor’s Hospital demolished the house in December 1966 for an expansion.

Fifth Avenue
1. Grace United Brethren Church: 25 W. 5th Avenue: 1894-1915: Demolished to build a new church on the site, which still exists.

2. Residential House: 117 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1890-1967: This home was demolished to expand the school and facilities of what is today the Thompson Recreation Center and park.

3. Residential House: 269 E. 5th Avenue: Around 1905-1962: Demolished to build the existing office building.

4. Residential Building: 381-387 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1905-Around 1978: Demolished for unknowns reasons. The current apartment block went up in 1984.

5. Residential House: 389 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1895-Around 1978: Demolished for unknowns reasons. The current apartment block went up in 1984.

6. William Morton House: 393 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1900-Around 1978: Demolished for unknown reasons. The current apartment block was constructed in 1984.


7. Residential House: 421 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1895-Around 1978: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site remains vacant.

8. Residential House: 439 W. 5th Avenue: Around 1900-Around 1978: Demolished for unknown reasons, but condition likely played a role. The site remains vacant.

Fourth Avenue
1. North High School: 100 W. 4th Avenue: 1892-1923: Demolished to build a new school. Today, the site is part of a newer structure.

2. Frederick Dunning House: 378-380 W. 4th Avenue: 1893-1981: Unknown reasons for demolition, but probably to build the new home on the site, which was completed in 1982.

3. Charles Reasoner House: 443 W. 4th Avenue: 1891-1987: Demolished by the city for unknown reasons, but probably due to condition. The site is now part of Harrison West Park.

Fourth Street
1. Angelo Ross Grocery: 854 N. 4th Street: Around 1890-1924: Demolished to build the current building.

2. David Summy House: 1831 N. 4th Street: Around 1890-1964: Demolished for the current apartment building.

Goodale Street
1. Lenox Hotel: 119 W. Goodale Street: 1900-1957: Demolished as part of “slum clearance” and early preparation for the construction of 670. The site is vacant.

2. Alex Neil House: 149-151 W. Goodale Street: 1889-1962: Demolished to build 670. The site is vacant space today.


3. Godman Guild House: 468 W. Goodale Street: 1900-1959: Demolished as part of “slum clearance” before the eventual construction of 670.

Hamlet Street
1. Grant Hearing House: 811 Hamlet Street: Around 1885-1986: Demolished due to poor condition. A new house was built on the site in 1999.

2. Residential House: 1036-1038 Hamlet Street: Around 1890-1962: Although the old and new house look pretty similar, the original was torn down for unknown reasons. The new home went up in 2003.

3. William Innskeep House: 1058 Hamlet Street: 1891-Around 1968: Unknown reasons for demolition. The site is now part of 1062 Hamlet.

Highland Street
1. James Kearney House: 930-932 Highland Street: 1888-1969: Demolished for unknown reasons. The lot was vacant until the current building went up in the 1980s.

2. Residential House: 934-936 Highland Street: 1889-1969: Demolished for unknown reasons. The lot was vacant until the current building went up in the 1980s.

3. Residential House: 940-942 Highland Street: 1889-1969: Demolished for unknown reasons. The lot is currently a parking lot.

4. Josiah Carson House: 966-968 Highland Street: Around 1885-1976: Demolished for unknown reasons. The lot was vacant until 2018 when the current house was built.

5. Residential House: 981-983 Highland Street: Around 1890-1965: Demolished to build the current apartment building.

6. David Davis House: 1089 Highland Street: 1888-1975: Demolished for unknown reasons. The current building was constructed in 2005.

7. Andrew Fry House: 1098 Highland Street: Around 1885-1971: Demolished for unknown reasons. The current building was constructed in 1983.

8. Isaac Ross House: 1099 Highland Street: Around 1891-1968: Demolished when the apartment building at 1097 Highland was constructed. The actual site now has an address of 1101 Highland.

High Street
1. Anson Coats House: 715 N. High Street: Around 1870-1925: Demolished to build the Diplomat.

2. Ephraim Sells House 771 N. High Street: 1887-5/17/1966: The build date is somewhat disputed. Photos of the home say 1887, but a Dispatch article says it was built in 1834. Either way, sometime after Ephraim’s death in 1898, it became an Eagles Lodge. It was demolished to build a car lot for then Winders Chevrolet after the Eagles sold it in 1965. The parking lot remained until the current mixed-use building went up in 2003. The original home address was 655 N. High.


3. Brown-Ferguson Company Building: 796 N. High Street: Around 1910-1947: Demolished to become a car sales lot. The current building was finished in 2019.


4. William Hubbard House: 845 N. High Street: 1850-Around 1915: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site was well off of High Street, just to the west of present day Wall Street.


5. Hughes Block: 912 N. High Street: Around 1910-1981: Demolished for a parking lot. The parking lot was later developed in the mid-1990s and then again in the late 2010s. The block contained several businesses, including the Knickerbocker Theater.


6. John Hughes House: 941 N. High Street: 1870-1928: Demolished to build the current building.


7. William Andrews House: 1095 N. High Street: Around 1885-Around 1949: Demolished for a parking lot. Today the site is part of a new development.

Hunter Avenue
1. Rollo Berry House: 956 Hunter Avenue: 1887-1973: Unknown reason for demolition. The current house was built in 1978.

2. Thomas Foster House: 1020 Hunter Avenue: Around 1900-Around 1965 for a parking lot that remains to the present day.

2. Residential House: 1036 Hunter Avenue: 1899-Around 1965: Demolished for a parking lot that remains to the present day.

3. Howard Spielman House: 1040 Hunter Avenue: Around 1895-Around 1965: Demolished for a parking lot that remains to the present day.

4. Residential House: 1105 Hunter Avenue: Around 1915-1968: Demolished for a parking lot.

Oregon Avenue
1. Roxanna Allen House: 1005-1007 Oregon Avenue: 1917-1971: Demolished for unknown reasons. The current development was built in 1988.

2. Andrew Campbell House: 1020-1022 Oregon Avenue: Around 1910-1981: Unknown reason for demolition, but the site remained vacant until 2000 when the current home was built.

3. Lee King House: 1088 Oregon Avenue: 1924-1975: Demolished for unknown reasons, but the site remained vacant untl the current house was built in 2000.

4. John Waid House: 1195 Oregon Avenue: Around 1899-1967: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site was vacant until the current home was built in 1984.

Park Street
1. George Peters House: 632 N. Park Street: 1873-1924: Demolished to build the United Commercial Travelers building, which still exists.

2. William Neil House: 664 N. Park Street: 1875-1967: Demolished for unknown reasons. The home served as various hospitals and medical facilities beginning with Parkview Sanitarium in 1902. The site remained vacant until Victorian Gate was constructed in 1994.

3. The Protestant Hospital and Ohio Medical University: 700 N. Park Street: 10/1895-6/27/1970: The hospital first formed as the Protestant Hospital in 1892 and moved to 700 N. Park in 1895. The Hospital was dedicated as White Cross Hospital in May, 1926. It continued as White Cross until Riverside was built to replace it. It closed a few months after Riverside opened in 1961. The building sat empty for nearly a decade after until it was torn down in 1970.

Pennsylvania Avenue
1. Residential House: 915-917 Pennsylvania Avenue: Around 1910-1962: Demolished as part of a massive “slum clearance” project that wiped out almost every building southwest of 1st Avenue and Neil west to the Olentangy and south to where I-670 is now. Pennsylvania Avenue, which once extended south to Spruce Street, also ceased to exist south of 1st. In the recent photo, the location of the home was behind the current building facing the opposite direction.

2. Douglas Hayes House: 1256-1258 Pennsylvania Avenue: Around 1890-1983: Demolished to build the existing apartment complex.

Poplar Street
1. Minnie Farrington House: 253-255 W. Poplar Street: Around 1900-1970: Demolished to build the gas station that remains on the site.

Russell Street
1. Engine House #4: 155 E. Russell Street: 1892-1960: Demolished during the construction of the Goodale Expressway (670). Today, this part of Russell no longer exists, but the site would’ve been just south of the current highway ramp.

Second Avenue
1. Residential Building: 79 W. 2nd Avenue: Around 1900-1974: Unknown reason for demolition. Today the site is used as a parking lot.

2. Residential House: 168 W. 2nd Avenue: Around 1890-Around 1970: Demolished for unknown reasons. The site remained vacant until 2016.

3. Fred Rickey House: 216-218 W. 2nd Avenue: Around 1890-1975: Demolished for unknown reasons, but the site had other development by the mid-1980s.

4. Treat Ford House: 542 W. 2nd Avenue 1893-Before 1921: Demolished for unknown reasons. The date of demolition is somewhat a mystery. Old maps show the house was gone before 1921 at that address. However, addresses changed during the late 19th-early 20th century, so it’s possible it was another address at one time. A house at 520 W. 2nd looks suspiciously similar, but I could find no record of the Ford family ever living there. Assuming 542 is the right address, the home was demolished within 20 or so years of construction, suggesting a possible fire. A new house didn’t go on the site until 1994.

Warren Street
1. A.G. Stifel House: 117-123 Warren Street: Around 1890-1958: Demolished to extend 3rd Street north to Summit Avenue as part of the construction of the Goodale Expressway (I-670).

2. Residential House: 127 Warren Street: Around 1895-1958: Demolished to extend 3rd Street north to Summit Avenue as part of the construction of the Goodale Expressway (I-670).