Building at 1400 Third Avenue

Built around 1912 in what was once Columbus's elite High Uptown neighborhood, this two-story Neo-Georgian house at 1400 3rd Avenue was probably built for Ethelred Philips, president of Bush-Philips Hardware, a wholesale and retail hardware business. The brick house has an irregular plan with a central pavilion, a slate roof with a truncated hip and gable form, sandstone foundation and water table, and a one-story porch with broad square brick columns and a balustraded parapet. Flat arch lintels with alternating sandstone and brick voussoirs top the windows, and the boxed eaves carry corbelled brickwork and modillions. Inside, a central hall divides four rooms upstairs and four downstairs. City directories show the Philips family living here through 1923, followed by two couples, one with a cashier at Swift Manufacturing Company and the other with an advertising employee of the Columbus Ledger. The house is noted locally as a representative example of Neo-Georgian homes built by wealthy residents between about 1910 and 1920.