Columbus Street Historic District

East Columbus Street in Canal Winchester, Ohio, is a tree-lined residential street of 30 houses and one church, with garages and a few outbuildings. Platted in 1828 beside the Ohio & Erie Canal, it was long the only street in the town's southeast quarter. Its buildings date from about 1830 to 1939 and include Classical and Pre-classical I-Houses, Side Hallway and Victorian T-Plan houses, American Four-Squares, bungalows and Colonial and Dutch Colonial Revival homes. The Bartlit House, with a log core from about 1830, is believed to be the oldest building in town. Frank Packard of Columbus designed the English Revival Caslow House in 1908, and local contractor William Burnett built most of the Four-Squares. The street was also an early turnpike linking Columbus and Lancaster. Many residents were leading business people and civic figures, and the uniform lots, setbacks and landscaping give the district a cohesive character typical of an agricultural market town.