Old North End Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This expansion of the Old North End Historic District adds 282 resources, 251 of them contributing, to a working-class neighborhood north of downtown Columbus. Streets laid out on a grid are lined with 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 story brick and frame homes set close together on narrow lots. Single-family Gabled Ell houses are the most common type, joined by duplexes, American Foursquares, including 21 on one block of Mt. Pleasant Avenue built as a 1904 subdivision, and 17 brick terrace apartment buildings. A few commercial and industrial buildings, such as a former theater, service stations, a sawtooth-roofed machine shop and a candy company warehouse, add to the setting, along with the 1874 Second Avenue Public School. The area was listed because it housed railroad workers and employees of nearby factories and businesses, and because its largely vernacular 19th and early 20th century buildings form intact streetscapes. Most contributing buildings date from 1880 to 1910, and the period of significance ends in 1930.