Architects Joseph Yost and Frank Packard in Ohio: Columbus Homes A-K.

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This blog showcases the still standing (with one exception) house designs of architects Joseph Warren Yost & Frank Lucius Packard in their home territory of Columbus, Ohio. Fortunately, none of the structures appear threatened with demolition. These two architects were in partnership from 1892 to 1899; each practiced separately before and after this period of time. When the partnership ended, Warren Yost (he was called by his middle name) moved his practice to New York City. Frank Packard’s entire career, 1889 to 1923, was in Columbus. Packard did not remove the Yost name from his practice until January 1, 1901.

The blog covers 1882 to 1923. The Yost & Packard firm, nationally recognized, would likely be considered one of Ohio’s most significant.

Published July 1, 2023. donfoster73@gmail.com

Frank A. and Wilhelmina Storey Amos residence. 1461 Summit Street.
Built 1906/07. Designed by Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 10/21/1906. Article is in reference to Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 6/27/1900. Note Wilhelmina is working at White’s, pictured below. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Frank Amos, president.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/16/1914.
The Columbus Dispatch 5/13/1951.
Address is incorrect…should be 1469.
At the time of Frank Amos’ passing per the above obituary, he was living at the IOOF home in Springfield. It was designed by Yost & Packard. Still stands today.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/2/1937.
Charles Walter and Rosa Upfold Baldwin residence. 1227 Neil Avenue. Built 1891.
Designed by Y&P, but likely Yost.
The Columbus Dispatch 12/4/1918. An obituary for Rosa could not be found.
Hiram Sherman Sr. and Mary Chandler Bronson residence. 1601 Hawthorne Avenue. Built 1902. Designed by Packard.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 6/26/1916.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/29/1902.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/29/1902.
Sylvio Antonio and Elizabeth Graves Casparis “castle” and residence. 1427 Roxbury Road, Marble Cliff. Built 1908. Assumed to have been designed by Packard per the article below. Photo credit: Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society.
The property now contains other freestanding residences on a private drive.
The Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society webpage states that Mr. Casparis “climbed the five-story tower to see his quarry men working.”
The Columbus Dispatch 9/15/1907.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Casparis Stone Company. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Dayton Daily News 12/21/1921. An obituary for Elizabeth could not be found.
Chi Phi fraternity house at Ohio State University. 2000 Indianola Avenue. Built 1913. Designed by Packard. Photo credit: 1915 OSU Makio yearbook.
Note Packard’s name. The Columbus Dispatch 5/8/1910.
The Columbus Dispatch 5/9/1920.
A blurry Google search.
The house actually faces East 19th Avenue. It replaced a house owned by Professor Charles Albright that likely faced Indianola…and thus the 2000 Indianola Avenue address. No longer a fraternity, but now a student rental and has a large addition as shown above.
M. (Michael) Leo and Mae Devlin Corbett residence. 39 Auburn Avenue. Built 1906/07.
Designed by Packard.
Leo Corbett was Secretary of this business.
Detroit Free Press 9/11/1963. Curious that they died the same day.
No other information was found.
Charles Q. and Bertha Longbon Davis residence. 797 Dennison Avenue. Built 1889.
Designed by Yost.
The Columbus Dispatch 10/10/1890.
The Columbus Dispatch 5/3/1889.
Photo credit: will add if I ever remember.
Frank Virgil and Adeline Hamilton Davis residence. 2096 Iuka Avenue. Built 1913/14.
Designed by Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/11/1950.
Frank Davis was a statistician with the Ohio Bureau of Coal Statistics.
The Columbus Dispatch 12/2/1935
Ann Bradford Davis who married Cassius Miles Davis, son of Frank and Adeline. Per her Find-a-Grave memorial page: “Best known for her role of housekeeper Alice Nelson on the 1970s television family situation comedy The Brady Bunch. She rose to television prominence in the 1950s in The Bob Cummings Show where she won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.”
William and Katherine Woolard Deaver residence. 71 Winner Avenue. Built 1890.
Designed by Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/4/1890.
The addition to the right was likely the result of the later conversion to a sanitorium. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library. This was on of Packard’s earliest designs.
Next door to the Deaver house is the Y&P-designed Walter and Elizabeth Jones Zinn house. Hard to see through the trees, but here is a full view of the Zinn house below.
The Zinn house is featured in the Columbus Homes L-Z blog.
The Columbus Dispatch 6/4/1891.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/16/1922. No other obituary could be located.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/20/1944.
Edward and Mary Dun Denmead residence. 153 Woodland Avenue. Built 1890. Designed by Packard. Razed, but included in the blog since it was one of his earliest houses.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/4/1890.
Edward Denmead.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/20/1901.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/23/1944.
John Green and Minnie Greene Deshler residence. 2296 East Broad Street, Bexley. Built 1912.
Designed by Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 4/15/1919.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/8/1929.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/9/1929.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/8/1929.
John Marshall and Philomena Hudson Doane residence. 1097 Oak Street. Built 1885/86.
Designed by Yost.
The Columbus Dispatch 4/12/1898. In addition to the above position, John Doane was city editor of The Ohio State Journal and was the State Librarian.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 5/29/1890.
Edward A. and Jane Doherty Fitch residence. 1263 Bryden Road (renumbered from 1265).
Built 1880. Designed by Yost.
The Columbus Dispatch 9/9/1892.
The Columbus Dispatch 9/10/1892.
The Columbus Dispatch 2/10/1913.
Jane Fitch was a Mission president as mentioned in the above obituary.
Charles Otto and Mary Shuflin Frankenberg residence. 871 Neil Avenue. Built 1901.
Designed by Packard.
Frankenberg Brothers, 479 South Ludlow Street, manufactured boxes and mailing tubes. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 5/4/1945. An obituary for Charles could not be found.
Joseph Howard and Wilmetta Stewart Graves residence. 878 Dennison Avenue. Built 1894. Designed by Y&P.
The Columbus Dispatch 9/21/1938.
The Columbus Dispatch 12/13/1955.
Charles Eugene and Mabel Sturgeon Gray residence. 1080 Wyandotte Road, Grandview Heights (previously known as Chester Heights). Built 1902. Designed by Packard. Photo credit: Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society.
The Columbus Dispatch 9/22/1901.
Eugene Gray was a stock broker. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
133-139 East Broad Street. Exclusive women’s shop of 35 years owned/operated by Mabel Gray. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Ad from The Columbus Dispatch.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/29/1942.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/26/1947.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/24/1958.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/24/1954.
Henry Spencer and Annie Lockey Hallwood residence. 776 Franklin Avenue. Built 1892. Designed by Y&P. Photo credit above and below: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Henry Hallwood’s company made brick street pavers.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Cash register manufacturing as well. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 6/11/1918.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/17/1918.
James Burns and Mary Bowman Hanna residence. 1021 East Broad Street. Built 1898/99.
Designed by Y&P. A stable was designed by Packard in 1901. Pictue appeared in the 1904 catalog of The C.T. Nelson Company of Columbus, a manufacturer of wood trim/moulding/columns/etc. for the construction industry. Photo credit: Roger Farrell and Susan McEntire.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Columbus Dispatch 10/29/1898, above and below.
The Columbus Dispatch 10/29/1898.
James Hanna was president of the company. The building at 111 East Long Street was designed by Yost & Packard. Razed. Photo credit: Y&P’s Portfolio of Architectural Realities.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/13/1936.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/20/1956.
William Alfred and Della Moore Hardesty residence and barn. 91 Hamilton Park. Built 1885/86.
Designed by Yost. Photo credit: Y&P’s Portfolio of Architectural Realities.
A fortunate survivor. This house backs up to I-71 , the construction of which resulted in the demolition of East Broad Street mansions.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/27/1880.
304 West Mound Street. Razed. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/14/1887.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/25/1903.
The Columbus Dispatch 9/12/1916.
First name is misspelled. Della is correct.
Frederick Jacob and Pauline Beck Heer residence. 551 South Third Street, German Village. Built 1898. Designed by Y&P though not typical of their designs. Frederick’s parents came to the U.S. from Germany.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library. Y&P designed a business building for Heer, but it’s not confirmed that this is the one they designed.
Photo credit: The Columbus Dispatch.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/17/1935.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/17/1935.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/20/1959.
Thomas and Mary Taylor Hibben residence. 1403 Eastwood Avenue. Built 1898.
Designed by Yost & Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 9/16/1904.
The Columbus Dispatch 7/15/1899.
Thomas Hibben was treasurer of Bee Manufacturing.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/29/1908.
Mary Taylor Hibben.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/23/1928.
John James and Eve Koons Hoglen residence. 878 High Street, Worthington. Built 1906.
The house was later moved to 153 Franklin Avenue. Designed by Packard.
The house was located about where the parking lot is between the two buildings above in the HIgh Street (Rt 23) block just north of the Worthington Public Library, same side of the road.
Per the Sanborn Fire Insurance map of 1929 above, a later use was as a restaurant.
The Worthington News 7/10/1930. Photo credit: Worthington Historical Society. “Cottage” may have been chosen for the name since the architectural style was “cottage” as mentioned in
The Columbus Dispatch.
John Hoglen was secretary of The Buckeye Fertilizer Company, Columbus.
The Courrier-Journal (Louisville) 4/10/1952.
Michael Sullivant and Matie Lockett Hopkins residence. 72 Miami Avenue. Built 1902.
Designed by Packard.
Michael Hopkins was General Superintendant of the Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company. Per his obituary below, he was an engineer and wired the first street car in 1890. The company later became the Columbus Centrarl Railway Company as displayed on the car barn above. That and the power plant next to it, located on Cleveland Avenue in downtown Columbus, were designed by Yost & Packard.
A close-up of the building with the spire on the far right above is pictured below. It was the ticket office and waiting area and was also designed by Yost & Packard.
This building still stands today, but is threatened. Corner of Cleveland and Reynolds Avenues.
In 1895, Westerville became the first suburban area connected to Columbus. The street car, or “interuban”, ran to the northern edge of the village. It and the crew were housed overnight in the car barn shown above. That building still stands today as pictured below. It was likely designed by Yost & Packard.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/7/1931.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/11/1973.
Charles Harmon and Martha Urmstat Houseman residence. 41 Wilson Avenue. Built 1892. Designed by Y&P.
The former East End Savings Bank (incorporated in 1893) at 1017 Mount Vernon Avenue.
Charles Houseman was the manager. Note “Bank” above the pharmacy sign.
The Columbus Dispatcn 1/23/1905.
The Columbus Dispatch 2/8/1911.
Frank Lynn and Harriet Ritson Hughes residence. 51 West Second Avenue. Built 1891.
Designed by Yost. Photo credit: Y&P’s Portfolio of Architectural Realities.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Frank Hughes was president of this manufacturer of trunks and traveling bags.
Photo credit: The Columbus Dispatch 5/2/1910.
He was also treasurer of this manufacturer of buggies located at 482 North High Street. Razed. Photo credits: above ad from The Columbus Dispatch 4/30/1901; illustration of the building below from the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 6/14/1926.
The Columbus Dispatch 12/1/1933. This is the only obituary that could be found.
SPECULATION: At the time of his passing in 1926, Frank and Harriet Hughes were living (since 1917) at the above house located at 1571 Hawthorne Park (1671 is a typo in Frank’s obit). Were they the original owners, and if so, did Yost or Packard design it? Maybe a blog reader will know the answer.
Joseph Curtis and Alice Claypoole Hull residence. 332 West Sixth Avenue. Built 1892. Designed by Y&P. Joseph Claypoole was a Bookkeeper with The Deshler Bank. Later relocated to Chicago.
The Columbus Dispatch 10/11/1939. Joseph Hull among those listed.
Chicago Tribune 2/20/1946.
The Columbus Dispatch 12/3/1930.
Webster Perit and Anna Harlow Huntington residence. 33 North Ohio Avenue. Built 1900. Designed by Packard. The Columbus Dispatch of 3/4/1900 reported that this house was to be built on East Broad Street at Winner Avenue. The Columbus City Directory lists the Websters living at Ohio Avenue. It is assumed the house was built on Ohio instead of Broad.
Webster Huntington. Photo credit: Find-A-Grave.
Editor of The Ohio Illustrated Magazine shown below.
The Lexington Herald 2/13/1946.
The Columbus Dispatch 3/24/1905.
Robert Hutchins and Alice Kilbourne Jeffrey residence. 165 North Parkview Avenue, Bexley. Built 1906. Front view on left and rear view on right. Designed by Packard. Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Today the mansion is an event venue.
The Columbus Dispatch 2/25/1906.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/18/1922.
The Columbus Dispatch 10/23/1961.
Alice Jeffrey was a volunteer with the Red Cross.
Photo credit: Columbus Metropolitan Library.
The Columbus Dispatch 11/23/1922.
Flavius Josephus and Mary Karbell Kistler residence and barn. 1138 Bryden Road. Built 1896.
Designed by Y&P. Flavius Kistler was an owner of Courtright, Kistler & Co, a wholesale and retail coal business.
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette 3/21/1922.
The Columbus Dispatch 8/19/1919. The Kistler “summer home” was located in Genoa Township of Delaware County on the Westerville-Cheshire Pike. Would love to know where it was, or better yet, is.
The Columbus Dispatch 1/23/1939.
Joseph F. is incorrect in Mary’s obituary. Should be F. Joseph.
If you can identify the house pictured below, please contact me. Hopefully it still stands…whereever it is.

Columbus Homes L – Z are in a separate blog. Here is the link to it:

https://doninwesterville.com/2023/06/29/architects-joseph-yost-and-frank-packard-in-ohio-columbus-homes-l-z/

6/30/2023 donfoster73@gmail.com

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