{"nrhp_refnum":"10000190","name":"Worthington Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by North, South, Morning, and Evening Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worthington","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":40.088936767000064,"lon":-83.01825815751174,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the original planned village of Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio, laid out in 1802 on a New England model with a central village green, bounded by North, South, Morning and Evening Streets.","why_significant":"The district preserves the intact 1802 town plan and buildings spanning from the first decade of the 19th century to the early 1960s. Its architecture shows the community's growth from a frontier village to a market village and then a suburb of Columbus. The form also stresses the community's long practice of preserving and moving historic buildings.","narrative":"Worthington's historic district preserves the village planned in 1802, before its first settlers left New England for Ohio. The plan follows a New England model: a central village green, land set aside for a school and church, and individual lots for sale. Streets form a grid bounded by North, South, Morning and Evening Streets, with High Street and Granville Road crossing at the Green. Buildings date from the first decade of the 19th century through the early 1960s and include the Gothic Revival St. John's Episcopal Church, the Georgian Revival Presbyterian Church and former library, the 1820 Masonic Lodge and the mansard-roofed Worthington Inn. High Street serves as the commercial spine, while surrounding blocks hold houses from many eras, including post-war ranch and Cape Cod homes. The district reflects the town's shift from frontier village to farm market center to Columbus suburb, and it records a local habit of moving historic buildings to save them from development.","period_of_significance":"1803-early 1960s (described as about 150 years)","architect_builder":"Martin, Orr and Martin (Columbus architects of several churches and the library); Charles Cellarius (1959 church wing)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district contains 589 contributing and 104 noncontributing resources, with many buildings still in residential, commercial, civic and religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.481896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/10000190.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988467","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/worthington-historic-district-10000190/"}