East Gambier Street District

East Gambier Street in Mount Vernon, Ohio, is a tree-lined residential street whose houses span about 1835 through the following decades. The district covers roughly eleven acres and includes Greek Revival homes with Ionic, Doric and Corinthian porticos, along with Italianate, Italian Villa and Gothic Revival houses. Several early houses were later altered with porches, wings and bay windows, and one Greek Revival house now serves as an American Legion Hall. The street grew from Shaw's Addition, platted in 1828, and Thomas Addition, platted in 1836, and drew lawyers, publishers, businessmen and military men. Residents included Henry B. Curtiss, a lawyer linked to the founding of Kenyon College, General George Washington Morgan, Judge Thomas, a former U.S. senator, and newspaper editor Lecky Harper. The district was recognized as one of the best collections of Greek Revival and transitional architecture in Ohio, kept up by generations of owners.