Temperance Row Historic District

Temperance Row is an 11-acre residential neighborhood in Westerville, Ohio, bounded by Alum Creek, Otterbein College and Otterbein Cemetery. It began in 1910 when Anti-Saloon League of America General Superintendent Purley Baker built a brick and clapboard bungalow at Park and Grove Streets. Other league leaders, editors, field agents and publishing staff followed, including founder Howard Hyde Russell and publisher Ernest Cherrington, who platted the Elmwood Addition in 1911 and built a six-unit brick rowhouse in 1917. The district has 43 contributing resources, mostly houses and garages from 1910 to 1935. Many follow Craftsman design, with bungalows, American Four Squares and gable-front houses, and several use cobblestones from nearby Alum Creek. A few mid-19th century frame houses predate the league's arrival. Park, Grove and Plum Streets keep their early 1900s brick paving. The neighborhood is significant for its link to the national temperance organization during the period 1910 to 1935.