The East Town Street Historic District is a
historic district
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in
Downtown Columbus, Ohio
Downtown Columbus is the central business district of Columbus, Ohio. Downtown is centered on the intersection of Broad Street (Columbus, Ohio), Broad and High Street (Columbus, Ohio), High Streets, and encompasses all of the area inside the Inner ...
. The site was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1976 and the
Columbus Register of Historic Properties
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in 1982; the district boundaries differ between the two entries.
High Victorian
High Victorian Gothic was an eclectic architectural style and movement during the mid-late 19th century. It is seen by architectural historians as either a sub-style of the broader Gothic Revival style, or a separate style in its own right.
Promo ...
-style two-and-a-half-story mansion with a cupola
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The word derives, via Italian, from ...
, built in 1852, is salient in the district. It was the Kappa Kappa Gamma
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It has a membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States a ...
National Headquarters from 1952 to 2018.Kelton House Museum and Garden
The Kelton House Museum and Garden is a Greek Revival and Italianate mansion in the Discovery District of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The museum was established by the Junior League of Columbus to promote an understanding of daily life, customs, and ...
is a historic house museum
A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a ...
in the district.
Gallery
File:Columbus, Ohio JJ 85.jpg, Aerial view of the district
File:Fernando Kelton House — Columbus, Ohio.jpg, The Kelton House
File:Philip Snowden House — Columbus, Ohio.jpg, The Snowden-Gray House
Houses on the 300 block
File:270 East Town Street.png, 370 East Town Street contributing house, demolished
File:Frederick Lazarus House — Columbus, Ohio.jpg, 380 East Town Street
(Fred Lazarus House
The Lazarus House is a historic house in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1886 for Frederick Lazarus Sr., president of the F&R Lazarus & Company, and was designed in the French Second Empire style. It has undergone numerous renovations s ...
)
File:House — Columbus, Ohio - 51107405941.jpg, 385 East Town Street
File:Abram Cohen Duplex — Columbus, Ohio - 51107147309.jpg, 390-392 East Town Street (Amelia & Ralph Lazarus House
See also
* Cristo Rey Columbus High School
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places entries in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The National Register is a federal register for buildings, structures, and sites of historic significance. This is intended to be a compl ...
* Ohio Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
The Ohio Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was a deaf school campus in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The school, today known as the Ohio School for the Deaf, sat on the present-day Topiary Park grounds in the modern-day Discovery District (Columbus, O ...
* Topiary Park
Topiary Park is a public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District (Columbus, Ohio), Discovery District. The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges S ...
References
External links
*
National Register of Historic Places in Columbus, Ohio
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
1976 establishments in Ohio
Columbus Register properties
Historic districts in Columbus, Ohio
Buildings and structures in Downtown Columbus, Ohio
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