{"nrhp_refnum":"96000964","name":"Old North End Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by I-670, Pearl St., E. 2nd Ave., and N. 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Franklin County","state":"OH","lat":39.97857860350004,"lon":-83.00079874503761,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district just north of downtown Columbus, Ohio, bounded roughly by I-670, Pearl Street, East Second Avenue and North Fourth Street. It holds 365 resources, 287 of them contributing, mostly built in the 1880s and 1890s.","why_significant":"The district is the earliest and most intact of Columbus's north side neighborhoods, and it grew up around the railroads and the industry that followed them. Its housing was built mainly for factory and railroad workers, and it preserves Italianate, Queen Anne and vernacular house types. It differs from nearby districts in its working-class, railroad-linked character.","narrative":"Just north of downtown Columbus, this neighborhood of narrow lots, brick-paved streets and alleys, and small brick houses grew with the city's railroads. Of 365 resources, 287 contribute to the district, and most date from the 1880s and 1890s. Gabled ell houses are the most common type, alongside double houses, terrace apartments and American Four Squares. Italianate and Queen Anne details appear throughout, including a group of Italianate double houses with stone quoins on Warren and Hamlet Streets. A few commercial and industrial buildings and two Late Gothic Revival Catholic churches, St. John the Baptist and Sacred Heart, anchor the edges. Residents were mostly factory and railroad workers, with some entrepreneurs and professionals. The area is the oldest and best-preserved of Columbus's early north side neighborhoods, set apart from nearby districts by its working-class, railroad-centered character. Construction of I-670 in the 1950s removed the southern part of the original Old North End.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Yost and Packard (144-146 Warren Street); Robert Kraus of Akron (Sacred Heart Church)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne; Late Gothic Revival; No Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely intact residential neighborhood; 78 resources are non-contributing because of late construction dates or heavy alteration. The southern part of the older Old North End was demolished for I-670 in the 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.08163-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/96000964.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988555","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/franklin-county/old-north-end-historic-district-96000964/"}