Coe, Truman and Sylvia Bull, House
Why it's listed
Set on a 60-by-118-foot lot in Columbus's Clintonville neighborhood, this 2½-story frame house at 75 East Lakeview Avenue was built probably between 1880 and 1885 for Truman and Sylvia Bull Coe. Sylvia was a granddaughter of Thomas Bull, who bought a large tract of Clinton Township land in 1814. The house has a hipped roof with intersecting gables, slate fishscale shingles, metal ridge cresting, shiplap siding, a sunburst motif in the west gable and a wraparound porch with turned supports. Inside, high ceilings, pocket doors, floral corner blocks and stained original woodwork survive on the first floor. The house was divided into apartments and clad in asbestos shingles in the twentieth century. Later owners removed the shingles and rebuilt the porch from original parts. A carriage house behind it is considered non-contributing because of additions. The house is valued as a rare Queen Anne-Eastlake example in a neighborhood now dominated by 1920s and 1930s housing.
Significance in brief: The nomination argues significance under Criterion C as an excellent and rare example of the Queen Anne-Eastlake style in Clintonville. It is one of the few remaining residences of the neighborhood's nineteenth-century community and one of the very few large houses built there before annexation by Columbus in 1910.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 06000361, listed May 10, 2006. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | 75 E. Lakeview Ave., Columbus |
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| County | Franklin County |
| Listed | May 10, 2006 |
| Reference number | 06000361 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | 1880-1885 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian; Queen Anne-Eastlake |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Described as in very good condition and in use as a single dwelling; it was divided into apartments in the early to mid-twentieth century and later restored by its owners. |
| Acreage | 0.2 |
| Coordinates | 40.02708, -83.01197 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
National Register listing is honorary for a privately owned home: it does not by itself restrict what an owner may do with their own money, and it does not require public access. Restrictions come from local landmark or historic-district ordinances, which are separate (how they differ).
Owner-occupied houses are not eligible for the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit, which applies to income-producing buildings, but many states offer credits for homeowners. Listing also opens the door to preservation easements and to buying a plaque. Start with what listing means for homeowners, renovating a listed house and selling one.
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Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 06000361.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q104881533
- This listing as JSON
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