Worthington Ohio real estate

High Street in Old Worthington - Small Business Saturday 2011

Is there a more quaint shopping area in Central Ohio than Downtown Worthington? 

Shops in Old Worthington include

• Peacock Lane  NEW
• Blue Frost Cupcake NEW
• Toyville NEW
• Worthington Jewelers NEWLY REMODELED and EXPANDED
  
• Fritzy Jacobs
• The Wine House
• Pure Cottage
• The Wren House
• Jeune Marie
• Denig Jeweler
• Damsels in this Dress

What have I missed? 

Welcome to Real Living HER, 681 High Street,  Worthington Ohio on Small Business Saturday

Visit Real Living HER, your Worthington neighborhood real estate office at 681 High St. Worthington, Ohio 43085 on Saturday.  We will have a limited supply of HER Cookbooks available on Saturday from 12:00 to 3:00 at the Worthington HER office compliments of Maureen McCabe.  

Real Living HER has been the number one real estate company in Central Ohio for decades.  Locally owned the company formerly known as HER Realtors has been in Ohio since the 1950s, the first office was Upper Arlington. The  Worthington office opened in the 1970s.   The Worthington office recently moved to Downtown Worthington, Old Worthington, stop by to see us Saturday.  

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I stopped by the office this evening... and went out the front door and stepped back in time.

You can not see the lantern, it was on the ground in the doorway, it is behind her skirt in this photo.  The couple is dressed up for the Civil War era.  I believe the Worthington Lantern Tour was a Worthington Historical Society event.

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A "Christmas tree" in the oldest commercial building in the state of Ohio.  The ghost of Christmas Past. Or perhaps the distinction is that the Old Worthington building is the oldest commercial building in Ohio in continual use... something like that.

An artificial Christmas tree in the abandoned upstairs of this Old Worthington commercial building is all alone.

Real Living HER (formerly known as Real Living HER ) is moving into the building at 681 High Street in about a week.   I got an opportunity to see the building on Sunday.  You would think I'd be sharing a photo of the reception area with it's old  fireplace and hardwood floor.  Or the pretty new work areas...  or the very attractive new stairway to the second floor.  No...  the second floor which is not part of our office is  what interested me.  

We went up to explore... The second floor has lots of interesting features... old, old wallpaper, wavy floors. Dusty wavy floors, see all the foot prints? The second floor has signs of old gas lighting.   There is a bathroom that was added at some point.  There are bricked up fireplaces and bricked up windows. 

The building was a home, an inn, a newspaper office, s surveyors office, a funeral home.  The Kilbourne Commercial Building was shops, most recently 'The Curio Cabinet ' or 'The Curio Cabinet and Christmas Village'  which used the 679 High Street address, the south end of the building.   

This tree does not look like what I remember Christmas Village in Old Worthington looking like. 

The second floor has no air conditioning.  I am not sure the second floor of the Kilbourne Commercial Building is heated. 

The second floor is mostly empty.  There is a little silver Christmas tree with red ribbons on it in one room on the second floor. The ghost of Christmas Past?

New Old Worthington real estate office opening in early August

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Blue Frost Cupcake, a NEW business in Old Worthington's Renovation Photos on Facebook...

A new business in Old Worthington, Blue Frost Cupcake has photos of their recent renovation of the store at 657 N. High St. Worthington OH 43085 on their Facebook page.   The link above will take you to Blue Frost Cupcakes page by way of their photos which now in February 2011 document the recent renovation of the new store in the Old Worthington business district.

I have to admire Blue Forst Cupcakes presence on Facebook... the cupcake with blue frosting is perfect on their Facebook page.  I know when I drive by I puzzle over the name Blue Frost Cupcake...  Why Blue Frost?

Here is the Blue Frost Cupcake website with a menu, who Blue Frost Cupcake is and more.

Here's a photo of the space Blue Frost Cupcake now occupies last fall, the Fine Lines stationary store had moved to Westerville at the point I took this photo of the store front at 657 N. High Street in Worthington.  The sign in the storefront window told the story of their moving in with a similar business in Uptown Westerville.  When I took the photo in September or October the awning said "Fine Lines,  Custom Invitations,  Fine Stationery" but they sold pens, paper party supplies, wrapping paper and more. 

Blue Frost Cupcake opened in December?  Or perhaps November?  Before the holidays.  Good reviews.  I am not much of a cupcake eater...

Haunted Old Worthington

Do you think Blue Frost Cupcake knew the building at 657 N. High St. was haunted? Is haunted by a ghost named Irwin?   Will the Worthington Library have to update their scary video about the history of the building in Old Worthington? Did Irwin Worthington's ghost run a business out of town? It's all about the wrapping paper...  Old Worthington is old, Worthington was established in 1803 but there is a lot of life left in it... and fun. 

Worthington Ghost Story - The Tale of Rap, Rap, Rap - from the Worthington Library

I hope to be spending more time in Old Worthington...  and perhaps sharing more about another business in Old Worthington, on 'Worthington Old and News' soon.

Old Worthington Kilbourne Building Renovation

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The first service at St. John's Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio was on January 23, 1831 according to the Worthington Memory Timeline.    I found another source that says 1832 but let's believe the Worthington Memory / Worthington Historical Society.  OK?

1831ish?  Long, long ago.

This photograph of St. John's Church was taken December 24, 2010. The post is about another anniversary for the historic Worthington Ohio church, first time the bell rang, December 24, 1833.

Worthington Christmas Eve 1941

Happy Birthday St. John's Episcopal

Worthington St. Johns Episcopal Church

An October Worthington Wedding  -  October 1948 across the Village Green at Worthington Presbyterian Church

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 Old Worthington home sales 2010

The Old Worthington home sale price range in 2010 was from  $157,900 to $410,000.  There were 12 homes sold in the Old Worthington neighborhood.   The average home sold in 2010 n Old Worthington was an average of 1842 square feet, and had three bedrooms and two and one half baths. 

Old Worthington home sales - average price by year

2010 - $294,392 (12 homes sold)

2009 - $297,163 (8 homes sold)

2008 - $296,012 (12 homes sold)

2007 - $344,491 (11 homes sold)

2006 - $264,199  (9 homes sold)

The average home in Old Worthington is more average than I would have guessed. Every year from 2006 to 2010 the average home was a three bedroom home with 2 full and one half baths.  The average square footage of an Old Worthington home was 1842 in 2010, 1818 in 2009, 1786 in 2008,  2127 in 2007 and 1825 square feet in 2006.  More the same than I would have imagined.

I searched for Old Worthington homes sold by map so that eliminated all of the strays (homes outside of North to South and Morning to Evening), sometimes described as "Old Worthington Area"  and sometimes just as "Old Worthington."

Old Worthington Neighborhood National Register of Historic Places

In Worthington what do those blue and white signs mean?

A New England Village in Ohio

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Worthington Holiday Tour - A tour of historic Worthington benefiting   the Chamber Music Connection is today from 1 to 5 PM in Old Worthington.   Nine Old Worthington houses and St. John's Episcopal Church will be open today.   Students of the Chamber Music Connection will be performing holiday music at each site.

Although the Chamber Music Connection has a page for Atlanta and Cleveland, it must be based in Worthington.  The Chamber Music Connection site says:

"All instructional activities are held on the campus of St. John's Episcopal Church, 700 N High St, Worthington, OH 43085..."

I have seen some of the homes on the list but not all.  I am disappointed I have other plans today.

Worthington Holiday Tour 2010

According to the Columbus Dispatch, House and Garden Tours page the addresses of the tour on December 5, 2010 are:

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• 668 Hartford St.
• 95 E. Dublin Granville Rd.
• The "Topping-Evans House"  92 E. Dublin - Granville Rd.
• The "Gardner House", 80 W. Dublin Granville Rd.
• 63 W. Dublin- Granville Rd.
• The "Old Episcopal Rectory", 50 W. New England Ave.
• The "Boarding House" 25 Fox Lane
• 25 Wagner Lane (????)
  
• 694 High St.
• St. John's Church , Township Hall at 67 E. Dublin - Granville Rd. "

Is it 25 Wagner Lane?  I am guessing 25 Warner Lane...  Or is that 25 Werner Lane? 

Tickets for the tour are available in the hall at St. John's Church at $20.

I plotted the addresses on Google Maps as a walking tour but they sure are not plotted here. Darn

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Worthington Haunted House?

Hardly!  The Worthington house look spooky though doesn't it?

A mansard roof says "spooky" to me.  At least this time of year. This house and the Worthington Inn?

A website about haunted places,  Shadowlands, site has a number of Ohio Haunted place but nothing in Worthington.  The Shadowlands.com 'Ohio Haunted Places ' site warns against visiting the sites they have listed.  Not because of the ghosts but because they are secured, private, or patroled.  Or private property.  They are safer to visit online.

This Dublin Granville home is private property.

Worthington Haunted House and Halloween

Worthington's Best Neighborhoods for Trick or Treat

Haunted Columbus - nothing in Worthington...

Worthington ghosts - The Worthington Medical College

Did Worthington's ghost "Irwin" run a business out of town?

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Did Worthington's ghost Irwin run a Fine Lines stationary store out of town?

I just noticed the Fine Lines store at 657 High St. in Worthington is gone.  The sign in the window tells you they've moved to Uptown Westerville and joined forces with another similar store.  Recession?  Perhaps it was Irwin.  Do you know the story of the haunting of the stationery store?

The story goes the building on High Street just north of the Worthington Inn was built in 1890 as a general store.

The Worthington Public Library site says:

" At the time the store was in business there was a customer named Irwin who was very unhappy with the seed that he bought for his garden. He claimed that the seed did not grow. Irwin became angry and began to rap on the store's back door very, very hard.

Laurel Tacoma, Library Associate at Worthington Libraries, tells the story of Irwin's past and the mysterious knocking that employees at Fine Lines heard coming from the store's back room

Watch the video about Worthington's ghost "Irwin"

Last year  on Worthington Old and News:  Worthington Ghost Story the tale of rap, rap, rap...  There is a photo of Irwin hanging out near the back door.

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Move from Worthington to Dayton?    The Masons may move from Worthington according to this article written by Dean Narciso in the Columbus Dispatch.   The Columbus Dispatach article has a great photo of the Masonic Lodge on High Street too...'Grand Lodge of Ohio' taken by Ed Matthews.    Center for Masons could go to Dayton

Narciso's article says:

"A little-known part of Worthington's heritage rests in a museum of Ohio relics situated below a 190-year-old meeting hall, the oldest Masonic temple west of the Appalachian Mountains."

Costs could be cut by moving west to Dayton... it would cut costs fifty percent according to the Columbus Dispatch article.

A Worthington City Council member said  "there is a deep historical significance with them being here."

The Dayton Masonic Center, on West Riverview Drive in Dayton is a gorgeous building... overlooking the river.  I worked in Dayton 20 years ago.. I had a couple of listings on the side street between the Masonic Center and the Dayton Museum of Art in 1988? or 1989?  Annunciation the Greek Orthodox Cathedral is right there too. I loved that area!  The Dayton Masonic Center is much more grand looking than the building in Worthington...  The Dayton Masonic Center was called the Dayton Masonic Temple and it looks like a Greek temple... or Roman?  It was built in the 1920s.

The Worthington building is 190 years old according to Narciso's Columbus Dispatch article.

A Move from Worthington - it's home for years

Worthington's been the "Grand Lodge of Ohio" 's home though for 50 plus years! The Grand Lodge of Ohio has been in Worthington since the 1950s because of the central location.  The Grand Lodge of Ohio had been in Cincinnati prior to moving to Worthington.  The local lodge would inherit the building that is now the 'Grand Lodge of Ohio'  at 643 High Street.  They'd rather not.

Here is a photo of the Masonic Lodge building from 1939, prior to it becoming the 'Grand Lodge of Ohio.'  This is Don O'Brien's photo.  The picture above is also Don O'Brien's.  The color photo of the corner of High Street and New England Ave. was taken in 2009. Seventy years of history documented on  O'Brien's Flickr photostream.

Photo Credit both photos of the corner of High St. and New England Ave. are the property of Don O'Brien, he has licensed them with a Creative Commons license which allows their use here. He has a great collection of Worthington, his home town.  Many of his photos from the 1930s and 1940s.  He is DOK1 on Flickr.

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