{"nrhp_refnum":"05000028","name":"Franklinton Apartments at Broad and Hawkes","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"949-957 W. Broad St., 13-23 Hawkes Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":39.958988684000076,"lon":-83.02603209199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two connected brick rowhouse-type apartment buildings in an L-shaped plan at 949-957 W. Broad Street and 13-23 Hawkes Avenue in the Franklinton area of Columbus, Ohio, built around 1900 and containing 22 apartments.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property reflects the residential boom on Columbus's west side around 1900, driven by industrial growth, electric streetcar service and civic improvements (Criterion A). It is also a good example of the large-scale, L-shaped corner rowhouse apartment type, one of four remaining in Franklinton (Criterion C).","narrative":"At the corner of West Broad Street and Hawkes Avenue in Columbus's Franklinton neighborhood, two red brick buildings form an L-shaped apartment complex, joined visually by a freestanding wall. Built around 1900, the two-story buildings sit on limestone foundations with raised basements, brown glazed brick bands, sandstone sill courses and corbelled parapets. Each of the 22 apartments has its own deeply recessed street entrance. An interior remodeling in the late 1970s or early 1980s converted two-story units to flats and replaced the original doors and windows, but the exterior character remains largely intact. The property is listed for two reasons. It reflects the housing boom on Columbus's west side at the turn of the 20th century, tied to new industry, electric streetcar lines and infrastructure improvements. It also represents a large-scale, L-shaped, corner rowhouse apartment type that the nomination describes as one of four surviving examples in Franklinton.","period_of_significance":"1900-1913","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as multiple dwellings; basement windows are boarded and the original doors and windows were replaced in the late 1970s or early 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.07144-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/05000028.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000028/e7d56af96a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000028/e7d56af96a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklinton_Apartments_at_Broad_and_Hawkes.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wdzinc</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklinton_Apartments_at_Broad_and_Hawkes.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988455","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklinton_Apartments_at_Broad_and_Hawkes","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104830561"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/franklinton-apartments-at-broad-and-hawkes-05000028/"}