City guide
46 buildings worth a detour, each with what to look for. Open them on the map, or walk them with the iPhone app, which collects each one you photograph.
The buildings that define the city's architecture.
16 East Broad Street is a Chicago School office building in downtown Columbus, completed in 1901 to a design by Frank L. Packard, one of the city's most prominent architects. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Buckeye Building was completed in 1927 in downtown Columbus, designed by Alfred Hopkins in the Neoclassical style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The C.E. Morris House is a Queen Anne style residence built in 1897. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Central High School is a Neoclassical school building in downtown Columbus, designed by William B. Ittner, a nationally recognized school architect. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Downtown YMCA is a Gothic Revival and Jacobethan building in downtown Columbus, completed in 1924. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Empire Building is a Beaux-Arts building in downtown Columbus, completed in 1924 to a design by Frank Packard, one of the city's most prominent architects. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Erwin W. Schueller House is a Queen Anne style residence built in 1909. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Frank J. Kaufman House was built in 1900 in the Queen Anne style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Heyne-Zimmerman House is a Colonial Revival residence built in 1912. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse is a Neoclassical federal courthouse in downtown Columbus. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Joseph-Cherrington House is an Italianate residence built in 1863. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Knights of Columbus Building in downtown Columbus was completed in 1927 to a design by the firm Richards, McCarty & Bulford, in the Beaux-Arts style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The LeVeque Tower is an iconic presence on the Columbus skyline, built in the Streamline Moderne style downtown. It was designed by C. Howard Crane, an architect noted for his theatre and skyscraper commissions. The tower is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Linus B. Kauffman House is an Italianate residence built in 1870. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Ohio Statehouse is downtown Columbus's state capitol building, built in the Greek Revival style. It is designated a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the strongest tier of federal recognition. As the seat of Ohio's government, it commands major presence along the sidewalk it fronts.
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The Ohio Theatre opened in 1928 in downtown Columbus, designed by Thomas W. Lamb, a prominent movie-palace architect. It holds dual federal recognition as both a National Historic Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places listed place.
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Orton Memorial Laboratory was completed in 1929 to a design by Howard Dwight Smith, in the Neoclassical style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Rankin Building is a Neoclassical building in downtown Columbus, completed in 1899. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Schlee-Kemmler Building is a Romanesque Revival building in downtown Columbus, completed in 1895. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and carries an OpenStreetMap heritage=2 designation.
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The Sharp-Page House is a Queen Anne style residence built in 1889. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Shedd-Dunn House is a Queen Anne style residence built in 1888. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Soloman Levy House is a 1910 residence built in the Arts and Crafts movement and Prairie School traditions. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Wexner Center for the Arts opened in 1989, designed by Peter Eisenman. It stands as a landmark of deconstructivist design, one of the earliest built examples of the style anywhere. Its fragmented, scaffolding-like massing gives it an unusually strong presence at street level for a building of its kind.
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The Wyandotte Building is a downtown Columbus commission from 1898 by Daniel Burnham, one of the most historically significant American architects. Built in the Chicago School style, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Worth a stop when you're nearby.
The Athletic Club of Columbus, located downtown, was built in the Mediterranean Revival style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Benjamin Smith House was built in 1860 in downtown Columbus and designed by architect Nathan Kelley. It combines Second Empire and Italianate architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Broad Street Christian Church was built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, an unusual choice for a Columbus church, and is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Broad Street United Methodist Church is a Gothic Revival church designed by architect Joseph W. Yost and individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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East Broad Street Presbyterian Church is a Romanesque Revival church individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Hale Hall was built in 1910 and designed by architect George S. Mills in the Jacobethan style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Knowlton Hall, completed in 2004, was designed by the nationally recognized firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam. It serves as the building for Ohio State University's architecture school and stands as a visible statement piece on campus.
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The Ohio National Bank in downtown Columbus was designed by the firm Richards, McCarty & Bulford in the Neoclassical style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Landmark
The Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant is a 1916 factory building in downtown Columbus designed by industrial architect Albert Kahn and individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Second Presbyterian Church, located in downtown Columbus, was built in the Romanesque style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Snowden-Gray House was built in 1852 in the Italianate style and is a contributing property within a National Register of Historic Places district.
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Trinity Episcopal Church is a downtown Columbus landmark built in the Gothic Revival style and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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University, Hayes and Orton Halls are three connected campus buildings designed by the firm Yost & Packard in the Romanesque Revival style and individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Fine buildings that fewer people seek out.
Engine House No. 6 is a firehouse built in 1892 in the Romanesque Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Frederick Prentiss House was built in 1890, combining the Queen Anne style with Italianate elements. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Holy Cross Church, Rectory and School, located downtown, was built in the Gothic Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Lincoln Theatre, built in 1928, is a rare example of Egyptian Revival architecture for a movie and performance theater, individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Offices building dates to 1871 and was built in the Second Empire style. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Trinity German Evangelical Lutheran Church, located downtown, was built in the Romanesque Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church, located downtown, was built in the Romanesque Revival style. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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