Roughly bounded by Mill, Water and Harrison Sts. and Dickason Blvd.
Columbus Downtown Historic District
92000113
Roughly bounded by Mill, Water and Harrison Sts. and Dickason Blvd.
Columbia
Columbus
Summary
This six-block district includes 79 commercial and institutional buildings built mostly of cream brick between 1852 and 1938. A large majority of the two- and three-story buildings were designed in Italianate and Commercial Vernacular styles. There are also several examples of Neo-Classical Revival and Romanesque Revival style structures and two Prairie School design buildings, including the Farmers and Merchants Union Bank (1919), a National Historic Landmark designed by Louis Sullivan.
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Designations
NR1285
State & National Registers of Historic Places
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