Worthington Ohio real estate

Brookside Woods on Google Maps!

The Brookside Woods neighborhood in northwest Columbus is unique in that there are two school districts within the neighborhood.  Part of Brookside Woods is in Dublin schools and part is in Worthington schools.  School districts in Central Ohio were put in place long before this area was developed.   A house is in one school district or the other, there is not a choice of school districts on any house in Central Ohio.  Within each school district there are attendance areas for each neighborhood.

Brookside Woods is in the Columbus Ohio 43235 zip code, the West Worthington zip code, which was part of the Worthington, 43085 zip code until the late 1980s.   Brookside Woods is west of Brookside Golf and County Club  and runs from Snouffer Road on the north  to Dublin Granville Road on the south.    Brookside Woods is inside 270 and there is good access to Sawmill Road and 315 from the neighborhood.

The average home in Brookside Woods is about 2300 square feet.  The average home is four bedrooms and two and a half baths.  Brookside Woods homes were primarily built in the 1980s.

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Central Ohio School Districts - including Dublin and Worthington

Columbus Win-Win Agreeement 

Worthington schools are not included

Zillow on Central Ohio School Districts

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Olentangy Highlands Neighborhood

The Olentangy Hills neighborhood was built in 1970s primarily, a few homes were built in the 1980s.

The average home size is about 2600 square feet in Olentangy Highlands.  The average home in the neighborhood is a four bedroom two and a half baths.  Most homes have a two car garage, a minority have a three car garage.

Located inside 270 between Olentangy River Road and Linworth Road, Olentangy Highlands is in the City of Columbus and the Worthington City School District.  Olentangy Highlands is in the 43085 zip code.  Most of the neighborhoods north and west of it are in the West Worthington zip code, 43235.

Being so close to the Olentangy River there are ravines in the Olentangy Highlands neighborhood and many more hills than most Central Ohio neighborhoods.

The current schools* for the Olentangy Highlands neighborhood are:

Elementary -  Evening Street

Middle - Kilbourne

High School - Thomas Worthington

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A "rough" map of the Olentangy Highlands neighborhood.

Viewing this on Facebook, you may need to go to Worthington Old and News to see the map.

*School attendance area can change year to year based on population shifts within most school districts.  The Worthington City School District website has a map that shows attendance areas as well as a list of attendance by street address. Check school attendance areas on the map at WorthingtonSchools.org

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The Stilson Highlands neighborhood is on the northwest side of Columbus inside 270 in the Worthington City School District.  The Stilson Highlands neighborhood's current school attendance* areas are:

Elementary School - Bluffview

Middle School - McCord

High School - Worthington Kilbourne

The majority of the homes in the Stilson Highlands neighborhood  were built in the 1980s.  The average square footage is just over 3000. The average Stilson Highlands home is four bedroom and two and a half baths.  

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*School attendance area can change year to year based on population shifts within most school districts.  The Worthington City School District website has a map that shows attendance areas as well as a list of attendance by street address.

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Christmas Morning in Worthington Ohio 1928

Don O'Brien and his younger brother David on Christmas morning in 1928, in one of black and white photos he shares on Flickr.   Actually their house on W. Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington.  The house at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. was out in the country north of the Village of Worthington in the 1920s. The Village of Worthington, what is now called "Old Worthington" was from North St. to South St. and Morning St. to Evening St., West Wilson Bridge Rd. was way out in the country in Sharon Township.  In the 1930s at least W. Wilson Bridge Road was in the Worthington school district of the time, there was a Sharon Township school district too.

On his Flickr page on this and another Christmas 1928 photo, Mr. O'Brien describes the flash powder used to take the indoor photos.  They had to open the windows to clear the smoke after the photos were taken.

Look at those toys!  I tried last year to find something on Delko Dumper or Delko Wagons but was not able to.  See the Tinker Toy container on the right?

Another Christmas Morning with the O'Brien family?  Christmas Morning 1935 - Don O'Brien got his first camera. This photo is "All Rights Reserved" it is one of my favorites on Flickr.  Don O'Brien has a great collection of his own photos of Worthington Ohio from the 1930s and 1940s.

Christmas in Worthington Ohio 1928 - Winter is colorful, after all

I wondered if there was snow on the ground on Christmas morning 1928.  From his father's diary describing their Sharon Township Property at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd.:

"Wandering around outdoors in the bright, snappy air this afternoon, I looked at the Euonymus patens or spreading euonymus, the Viburnum rhytididiphyllum and the Oregon hollygrape, each green in the shrub border. Berries still cling to the highbush cranberry, some of the cotoneasters and the barberry. Many of the rock garden plants not yet covered were still green and fresh. Winter is colorful, after all."

just  part of a commment that Mr. O'Brien (Dok1 on Flickr) added last year to the photo of him and his brother on Christmas 1928.  O'Brien's father wrote a column for Better Homes and Gardens magazine and wrote extensively for Country Gentleman, a magazine for farmers.  The father's diary tells about Christmas Eve preparation for Donald and David's Christmas morning, what he got for Christmas 1928 and about a walk outside, "Winter is colorful, after all."    The photo of the O'Brien brothers in front of their Christmas tree in 1928 is linked to the photo, so you can read more of what Don O'Brien shares from his father's diary.

Wilson Bridge 1936 or 1937

Worthington School Bus 1938

The Christmas Morning 1928 photo is part of Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream - Dok1.  Just today Mr. O'Brien  added to Flickr a photo of himself on Christmas 1933, with his main gift, a desk.  A few days ago he shared a card his mother made for Christmas 1930.  The photo of Christmas Morning 1928 is licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows me to use it here.

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St. Johns Episcopal Church, Worthington Ohio

St. Johns Episcopal Church bell first rang on December 24, 1933 according to a 1960s  Worthington Chamber Booklet on Flickr.  In 1933 the first church in Worthington got a bell, finally.  Or was it a replacement for an earlier bell?  The Worthington church already had a long past by 1933 when it got a bell:   

"On February 6, 1804, the Articles of Agreement establishing St. John's Church of Worthington were executed" 

From the Timeline on the Worthington Memory Site.

Worthington was established in 1803.

Life in 1933 

1933  was the Great Depression

1933 Hitler came to power in Germany

1933 Prohibition ended in the United States, I believe in December

1933 FDR became the United States President

Life in Worthington Ohio in 1933

Worthington would have been a little village out in the county... not a suburb of Columbus Ohio.  Columbus would have been small too. Worthington would have been what we call "Old Worthington" now. 

There would be no Colonial Hills, no Wilson Hill neighborhood, certainly no Worthington Estates. Olentangy Hills and Worthingway.  No Wilson Bridge Rd. corridor with a shopping mall and office buildings. 

In 1933 the area surrounding Worthington would be rural.  There'd be farms everywhere.  Cornfields? Other nearby villages would be Linworth or was it Elmwood Station in the 1930s? Also Flint.  Further away Dublin and Powell would still be villages for many years to come.

The photos the front and back of St. John's Episcopal Church on December 24, 2010.

Old Worthington

Worthington Christmas Eve 1941

Happy Birthday St. John's Episcopal

Worthington St. Johns Episcopal Church

An October Worthington Wedding  -  October 1948

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The Columbus Board of REALTORS® has spoken about November 2010 home sales in Central Ohio.  The News which was posted Tuesday, December 21, 2010 on CBR website  and emailed to members (and the media?)  on Thursday December 23, 2010... CBR News titled:   "November home sales down from last year -- but up from 2008"

says:

“Sales in November of 2009 were inflated as they reflected buyers trying to close on a home purchase before the expiration of the first 1st-time home buyer tax credit,” says CBR President Sue Lusk-Gleich. “Although the tax credit was extended (and expanded) in early November, many buyers had rushed to put a home in contract prior to that decision.”

“As November of 2010 and November of 2008 were both months unaffected by a tax credit incentive, it’s probably a better comparison.”

Huh? Really?  Wasn't there a First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit in 2008?   A different one... just for first time buyers...

Here's a great chart on Leticia Stevens (a Wilmington, Delaware real estate agent's)  blog...  best chart I've seen.  

2008 Tax Credit / 2009 Tax Credit  /  2010 Credit -  Comparison

Thanks Leticia!  Yes there was a tax credit in 2008. As successful as 2009 or 2010 which ended in April?   If the Columbus Board of REALTORS® is saying we are doing well in comparison this year and November 2008 was "unaffected by a tax credit incentive" but it was...  we are doing better than we think if we don't remember buyers were getting a tax credit incentive.

More about Columbus Ohio real estate markets - November 2010

"The Columbus Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS) serves all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway and Union Counties and parts of Champagne, Clark, Hocking, Licking, Fairfield, Knox, Logan, Marion, and Ross Counties. "  I don't.

Columbus, Ohio 43202 home sales

Columbus, Ohio 43214 home sales

Columbus, Ohio 43235 home sales

Dublin Ohio Home Sales  Wait Dublin is missing... I never posted Dublin? I will.  I know I wrote it....

Westerville Ohio Home Sales

Worthington Ohio  Home Sales

Olentangy Local School District Home Sales

Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS home sales - November 2010, my analysis of single family sales earlier in December for the whole MLS, "all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway and Union Counties and parts of Champagne, Clark, Hocking, Licking, Fairfield, Knox, Logan, Marion, and Ross Counties."

Above are all for single family.  The boards "News" includes condos...

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The Columbus Dispatch says the sale of the Worthington Square Mall is final.  The mall on W. Wilson Bridge Rd. sold for approximately $6.5 Million according to  Marla Matzer Rose's article titled "Mall's new owner ready to make big changes " 

Big changes like tearing off the roof....  or part of the roof.  The rendering in Columbus Business First was interesting. The Dispatch article talks about making the exterior of the "enclosed  mall more walkable."  That will work if the whole Wilson Bridge Corridor rework goes anywhere.   Offices, businesses to walk to Worthington Square from.   

The malls new owners are Tom Carter of Worthington, and partners. They plan to invest $10 Million in the Worthington Square Mall according to the newspaper article.

The Columbus Dispatch article says of the propored TIF District: 

"Three weeks ago, the Worthington City Council voted to support a tax-increment financing (TIF) district that would aid the developers in renovating the property"

The Columbus Dispatch article says Worthington Square Mall hopes to announce two new restaurants early next year.   It's almost early next year now...  Changes in Worthington

Wilson Bridge Road and Worthington Square Mall

W. Wilson Bridge Road - Worthington history

When Worthington's W. Wilson Bridge Rd. moved -1960s

Wilson Bridge Road Corridor- 2010

Worthington Square Mall- 2008

Worthington - October 24, 1938  E. Wilson Bridge Rd.

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Theodore van Fossen,  the architect who designed Rush Creek Village passed away earlier this month.  I  saw  it on the PrairieMod site first, In Memoriam Theodore van Fossen on PrarieMod has a link to the article  today by Jim Weiker in The Columbus Dispatch:

Theodore van Fossen | 1919-2010 Architect designed Rush Creek Village

Theodore van Fossen died December 9, 2010, according to today's Columbus Dispatch article.

The article in the Sunday December 12, 2010 Columbus Dispatch about two new homes being built in Rush Creek Village said the families building the first homes in the Usonian neighborhood in decades met with van Fossen in Pennsylvania about the plans for their homes.  The Columbus Dispatch says van Fossen made one visit to Worthington in the past few years during the planning of the two new Rush Creek Village homes. The Columbus Dispatch article also says of the two remaining Rush Creek Village lots:

"The families also got help from a 1963 van Fossen Christmas card that showed where he would place imaginary homes on the lots."

Before building Rush Creek Village,  Theodore van Fossen built a historic house on the east side (the Blacklick area) that the Columbus Landmarks Foundation was trying to save a couple of years ago, the Gunning House, wow still on the market!

Theodore van Fossen was a Columbus native according to the Columbus Dispatch article today.  He worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on a house in Indiana, as a laborer.

Worthington's Rush Creek Village

New Homes in Historic Worthington Neighborhood

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Worthington condo sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

This graph shows condominiums for sale in Worthington schools for the past 15 months and condos sold for the same area in the same time frame.  Only eight condos sold in the area in November 2010, down 55.6% from November 2009.  There were tax credits for home buyers this time last yea.

Comparing condo sales Worthington schools sales to November condo sales in other areas:

• Franklin County condo sales down 50.7%
• Columbus Board of REALTOR down 44.9% (the whole MLS area)
• Dublin schools condo sales down 30.4%
• Westerville schools condo sale down 70.6%
• Columbus school district condo sales down 64.4%
• Olentangy school disttrict condo sales down 47.4%

It's a great time to buy a condo, the average sold price in November was down 28.6% from November 2009,  there are lots of Worthington condos for sale to chose from on the market.

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Worthington condo sales a market report for November 2010

117 Worthington condos for sale
8 Worthington condos sold


Average active price $137,000
Average sale price $90,000
Median sale price $76,000

Worthington condo sales - neighborhoods

The Worthington schools area includes condos in the city of Columbus, City of Worthington  and Riverlea. Condos for sale in the area include properties in Carriage Oaks, Ville Charmant, Worthinglen, , Worthington Glen, Worthington Heights, Worthington Park and Worthington Woods among other condominium communities in the school distrcit,

Published December 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of November 2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."  Therefor you have  no guarantee from me either since I am relying on their data!

If you use the "Worthington condos for sale* link you are able to search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on my Real Living HER site for condos or single family homes. You will be offered the opportunity to receive property  listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in, in real time.

 Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS single family  home sales for November 2010

Compare to Worthington schools single family  home sales - Worthington Ohio home sales

Columbus Ohio 43235 Condos for Sale -  West Worthington area

Worthington Condos for Sale

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Ski?  The Worthingview neighborhood in West Worthington (Columbus Ohio 43235) has cool snowy names.

Cross Country Drive I looked at a house on Cross Country Drive when I moved to Columbus in 1990 with a set of cross country skis.

Duffy... I always assumed the street was named after the  home builder

Snowmass is a place in Colorado

Buttermilk?

Tiehack?

Amol?

Hatherly?

Ski Worthingview?

Skiing in Columbus? Worthingview has some backyards that might make for thrilling cross country skiing.  Being close to the river there are ravines in the Worthingview area.  Were these snow covered slopes in flat Central Ohio what gave the Worthingview neighborhood streets their names?   I have cross country skied with  friends in High Bluffs Metro Park.  My skis were stolen and I never replaced them but I have a little sled.... actually it is a little piece of blue plastic.  Great for sledding.

Sledding is popular at the Olentangy Parklands.   Olentangy Parklands is right down the hill (W. Wilson Bridge Road) and accross the Olentangy River in the City of Worthington.

My Worthingview Google Map, centered on Cross Country Drive is too small for you to see the street names, but if you click on it, it will show you Cross Country Drive, Snowmass Rd. Buttermilk Rd., Tiehack Ct., and other streets whose names may or may not have anything to do with skiing.

Ski Names in Worthingview in West Worthington

When it comes to "Ski" names in the Worthingview neighborhood, Wikipedia is your friend.  When it comes to finding the where for some of the names of the streets in the Worthingview neighborhood in West Worthington:

Snowmass Village according to Wikipedia: " Snowmass Village is a Home Rule Municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,822 at the 2000 census. A popular winter resort location for skiingsnowboarding, the town is best known as the location of the Snowmass ski area, the largest of the four nearby ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass;"

Buttermilk "Buttermilk Ski Area is the easiest skiing mountain in Aspen, Colorado."

Google showed me "stuff" that makes me know Tiehack Ct.'s name is related to skiing too.  I suppose a search of Google Map would tell me if it is a place. 

Worthingview in West Worthington

Worthingview Neighorhood

Worthingview Home for Sale and a GREAT interest rate

Columbus Ohio 43235 real estate market

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