Histories and Mysteries

NOTE: The blog contains quite a few pictures so give it several minutes to download. The pictures download haphazardly. This blog showcases the known designs of Columbus architects Joseph Warren Yost & Frank Lucius Packard in the region of Crawford, Hardin, Marion and Wyandot Counties of Ohio. These two architects were in partnership during theContinue reading “Architects Joseph Yost and Frank Packard in Ohio: Crawford, Hardin, Marion and Wyandot Counties”

PLEASE NOTE: This blog contains a number of pictures so give it several minutes to download. The pictures download haphazardly. This blog was rewritten December 12, 2021, after additional history was discovered at the Archives of Ohio United Methodism at Beeghly Library on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware. In June 2019 bronzeContinue reading “Uptown Westerville history: repurposed 1877 brick church on South Vine Street.”

NOTE: This blog contains quite a few pictures so give it several minutes to download. The pictures download haphazardly. This blog showcases the known designs of Columbus architects Joseph Warren Yost & Frank Lucius Packard in the region of Auglaize, Darke, Miami, and Shelby Counties of Ohio. These two architects were in partnership during theContinue reading “Architects Joseph Yost and Frank Packard in Ohio: Auglaize, Darke, Miami, and Shelby Counties”

The Campus Center dining hall at Otterbein University overlooks a large grassy mall on its northern side. Ever since my freshman year there, I’ve gazed out at that area and wondered why it was sunken. It held standing water after a rainstorm although the lay of that piece of land has had an adjustment inContinue reading “Otterbein University’s “graceful green hollow” a source of sorrow in 1919.”

This blog showcases the known designs of Columbus architects Joseph Warren Yost & Frank Lucius Packard in the region of Champaign, Clark, Logan, and Union Counties of Ohio. These two architects were in partnership during the years 1892-1899; each practiced separately before and after this period of time. The history of these structures has notContinue reading “Architects Joseph Yost and Frank Packard in Ohio: Champaign, Clark, Logan, and Union Counties”

This blog covers the circa 1880’s-1907 Westerville design work of prominent Columbus architects Joseph Warren Yost and Frank Lucius Packard. The firm known as Yost & Packard was formed in 1892 and ended its run in 1899 when Yost moved to New York City. Each had his own firm before and after their partnership. DescribedContinue reading “Architects Joseph Yost and Frank Packard in Ohio: Westerville Legacy”

This blog is intended to accompany Otterbein’s former Carnegie Library being listed February 5, 2021, on the National Register of Historic Places. Due to that, due to my interest in its architect, and due to one discovery leading to another…this thing got out of hand. So my apologies for long windedness. Press on to theContinue reading ““Iron Master Makes Gift”: Carnegie Library at Otterbein University (an architect Frank Packard design)”

If you have read my other blog entitled “Iron Master Makes Gift”: Carnegie Library at Otterbein University, then skip the narrative below (as it is a repeat) and scroll to the pictures. About Carnegie Free Public Libraries Andrew Carnegie once said “the man who dies rich, dies disgraced.” And thus, the self-made Scottish immigrant whoContinue reading “The Ohio Carnegie Libraries of Architect Frank Packard”

PLEASE NOTE: The blog contains quite a few pictures so give it several minutes to download. They download haphazardly. When did a store dedicated to selling books open in Uptown Westerville? A market for one may not have existed until Otterbein University’s founding in1847. Historical material doesn’t exist going back that far. The earliest sourceContinue reading “Uptown Westerville history: evolution of a bookstore circa 1870-1964.”

PLEASE NOTE: The blog contains quite a few pictures so give it several minutes to download. They download haphazardly. In 2019, a scrapbook dated 1916 was donated to the Otterbein University archives. In it was a photo of “Gilbert E. Mills Postman” standing at the northeast corner of West College Avenue and South Grove Street.Continue reading “Uptown Westerville history: door-to-door mail delivery begins in 1912!”