{"nrhp_refnum":"11000711","name":"Athletic Club of Columbus","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"136 Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":39.96281879800006,"lon":-82.99691117099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story Italian Renaissance Revival athletic and social club building at 136 E. Broad Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio, just east of the state capitol. It is faced with variegated brick and terra cotta and has a partial seventh floor at the rear.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the building as a long-standing athletic, social and civic club for Columbus business and civic leaders, with facilities such as a pool, gymnasium, squash courts and overnight rooms. The surviving text also describes its role as a host site for civic forums and political and cultural events, and its family-oriented programming from the late 1940s through the 1960s. It is considered significant at the local level.","narrative":"Rising six stories on East Broad Street in downtown Columbus, just east of the state capitol, the Athletic Club of Columbus is a brick and terra cotta clubhouse in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. Its symmetrical façade has an ornate entrance surround, arched second-floor windows topped with lion's-head keystones, a Greek key belt course and a bracketed cornice with a balustraded parapet. Inside, the building held dining rooms, a library and lounge with a coffered ceiling and large fireplace, overnight rooms, a swimming pool, squash courts and a two-story gymnasium. A separate women's entrance and stairway reflect its origins as a men's club. The club was listed for its local importance. Its publication, Blue Wings, documents a family-oriented program from the late 1940s through the 1960s, along with its role as a civic and cultural gathering place that hosted Columbus Town Meetings and forums on public affairs. It continues as a sports and social club.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a sports facility and meeting hall; the interior has been altered in places, with upper-floor windows replaced in 1983-84.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.147986-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/11000711.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000711/c66da10f94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000711/c66da10f94-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athletic_Club_of_Columbus_from_southwest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athletic_Club_of_Columbus_from_southwest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988587","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_Club_of_Columbus","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4813735"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/athletic-club-of-columbus-11000711/"}