{"nrhp_refnum":"94000237","name":"Stoddart Block","other_names":["Fra-156-18"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"260 S. Fourth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":39.957600753000065,"lon":-82.99492134899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story commercial building at 260 South Fourth Street in downtown Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, built in 1911 for a furniture store and designed by David Riebel and Sons.","why_significant":"It is argued to be an excellent and increasingly rare example of small-scale early 20th century commercial architecture in downtown Columbus. It was built as a single-purpose commercial structure and was never significantly altered inside or out. Its tri-partite design and decorative brickwork represent commercial buildings of the period.","narrative":"Located on a corner at 260 South Fourth Street in downtown Columbus, this five-story commercial building was completed in 1911 to house a large furniture store. Architects David Riebel and Sons designed it with a steel-reinforced concrete frame, red brick walls, stone beltcourses and a bracketed galvanized iron cornice, with \"Stoddart 1911\" carved in the parapet. Lawyer John J. Stoddart built it in the city's German-influenced south end. Frohock Furniture Company occupied it from 1911 until 1938, followed by Hadley's Furniture until 1962 and then a hospital thrift shop until 1990. Only the ground-floor storefront has been changed. Its significance rests on architecture: it is a rare surviving small-scale commercial building in a downtown where many similar structures have been demolished, and it shows the shift from late nineteenth century eclectic styles toward modern construction. It was among the few commercial blocks Riebel designed in Columbus.","period_of_significance":"1911","architect_builder":"Riebel, David, and Sons","architectural_style":"Commercial style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacant since 1990, when the hospital thrift shop that occupied it left; only the storefront was altered, probably in the 1960s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.464664-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/94000237.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000237/d2ace3ce80-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000237/d2ace3ce80-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_ohio_Stoddart_Block_Building.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:Columbus_ohio_Stoddart_Block_Building.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100012406","name":"Market-Mohawk Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/market-mohawk-historic-district-100012406/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoddart_Block","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104521078"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/stoddart-block-94000237/"}