{"nrhp_refnum":"85002694","name":"Upper Arlington Historic District","other_names":["Old Arlington"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lane Ave., Andover Rd., Fifth Ave., Cambridge Blvd. & Riverside Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upper Arlington","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":39.997020632000044,"lon":-83.06349462494211,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned early twentieth-century residential community of about 1121 mostly residential buildings on 536 acres northwest of downtown Columbus in Upper Arlington, Franklin County, Ohio, developed from 1915 onward by brothers King and Ben Thompson.","why_significant":"The district preserves the original design and character of an early planned community laid out on land the Thompson brothers bought in 1913. Its buildings, mostly Colonial, English, French and Spanish Revival houses built between 1915 and 1935, remain largely intact, along with schools, a municipal building and a commercial strip in a unified Tudor Revival style. The surviving text does not include the formal statement of significance, so this reading rests on the description section.","narrative":"Upper Arlington is a planned residential community northwest of downtown Columbus, Ohio. Brothers King and Ben Thompson bought roughly a thousand acres from James T. Miller in December 1913 and began developing it around 1915. The district covers 536 acres and about 1121 buildings, nearly all houses, with a small number of apartment buildings, shops and civic structures. Most were built between 1915 and 1935 in Revival styles: Georgian and Dutch Colonial, English Tudor and Cotswold, French and Spanish. Local limestone was used in many buildings. Notable architects include Howard Dwight Smith, who designed Jones Middle School and the Boiler House, and Hyp J. Dauben, who designed the Georgian Revival Municipal Building. The Arlington Avenue shops share a unified Tudor Revival look. The homes of both Thompson brothers face Miller Park. The district's boundaries follow the original land purchase and the areas platted between 1915 and 1927, and its consistent scale, materials and setbacks show the original plan.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Various, including Howard Dwight Smith, Marriott, Allen and Hall, Charles Inscho, Robert Royce, Thomas Tulley (Tully), Ray Sims, Hyp J. Dauben, and builders such as Adam Marquart and Orr Zimmerman","architectural_style":"Twentieth Century Revival styles, primarily American Colonial Revival and English Revival, with French Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and others","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are occupied. The form reports that architectural integrity has largely been maintained, with 137 non-contributing buildings, fewer than five percent of them because of alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.771791-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85002694.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002694/6c0c8fbb65-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002694/6c0c8fbb65-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Postdlf","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upper_Arlington_mansion.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Postdlf</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Upper_Arlington_mansion.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988475","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49573468"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/upper-arlington-historic-district-85002694/"}