Old North End Historic District

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.