Worthington real estate

Columbus  ...  WalkScore.com's scores used to be "as the crow flies."  Recently I thought there had been a change in at least one address I care about, on WalkScore.com

The home at 301 Girard Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214 in the Delawanda Park neighborhood lost a point in the change to WalkScore.com  The Walk Score for that north Columbus address is now 71.  A Walk Score of 71 is still considered 'Very Walkable'  byWalk Score.  301 Girard Rd. is very walkable.

Worthington WalkScore

I wrote a old post long ago about Olentangy Hills, a neighborhood in Worthington having a  great WalkScore.  You can walk to Worthington Square, downtown Worthington, offices on W. Wilson Bridge but walking to the Marcus Cinema from Olentangy Hills would be tough (crossing 270.)  The WalkScore.com change should reduce that Olentangy Hills addresses' Walk Score and make it more realistic.  Olentangy Hills is just south of W. Wilson Bridge Rd.  There are neighborhoods in Worthington with good Walk Scores,  Most Old Worthington addresses have good Walk Score.

Clintonville is a very walkable Columbus neighborhood.  Weinland Park, Victorian Village and Downtown are on a list with America's most walkable neighborhoods, on WalkScore.com

How walkable is your Columbus neighborhood.  Do you see a difference since the change?

Walk Score

Sharon Heights is a north Columbus neighborhood...   The Toledo Blade called the Columbus neighborhood that President Obama visited yesterday, "Sharon Heights."

"Microphone in hand in town hall-style, the President spoke and took questions from a small crowd sitting at picnic tables in the backyard of architect Joe Weithman, his wife, Rhonda, and their two children in the tree-lined, residential Columbus neighborhood of Sharon Heights. The family benefited on more than one front from the $787 billion economic stimulus package that Mr. Obama pushed through Congress last year almost exclusively with Democratic votes."

E. Kanawha Avenue? ...That is Sharon Heights, Clintonville area... Zillow refers to it as Sharon Heights

Monday all of the local news I heard called the area that the President would visit "Clintonville" .... my office was all concerned on Monday about traffic west of interstate 71 Oakland Park and E. North Broadway ... which is Clintonville. 

Where does Clintonville begin or end? South of the sign in the image above.  The sign welcoming you to Clintonville is at the south end of Worthington

High St. Columbus OH 43214 - Sharon Heights neighborhood.

The sign on the 5200 block of  High St. Columbus Ohio ... I'd call it Clintonville but that would just be wrong... ;- )   Even if  the sign up the road at the south end of Worthington says "Welcome to Clintonville." 

The Pierce Cleaners sign on Hight Street today....

Pierce Cleaners is located at  5205 N. High St. Columbus Ohio 43214... That's Sharon Heights?

Here's a close up of the temporary sign...  today. The   Pierce Cleaners "We're Open" sign up now.  The Pierce Cleaners sign says "Our sign will be back soon!" and also says "The historical sign is out for restoration. " 

The historical and witty Pierce Cleaners sign on High Street...  My photo was taken since the Taco Bell was built on the east side of the road... so it is within the last couple of years.  There is no snow but no leaves either...

I am relieved to see officially that the Pierce Cleaners sign is being repaired.  Not that I doubted the word of a friend who is a Pierce Cleaners customer.  He heard that the historic and witty sign on High Street had been hit by a car and was being restored.   He heard it from a Pierce Cleaners employee.   I believed him.... but I love the temporary sign verifying the sign is recovering.

The Clintonville Beechwold area -  Sharon Heights according to some...

Clintonville area... Zillow refers to it as Sharon Heights

High St. in Clintonville... never too late...

Clintonville Businesses - Don't judge a marquee by it's cover

Clintonville conspiracy theory... Realtors changing borders

A site called 'Neighborhood Link' has a good read about the history of the Morse -  Bethel Connector.   The  Morse - Bethel Connector would have been a road connecting Clintonville to the Bethel Road area,  a bridge across the Olentangy River....

Neighborhood Link -  Clintonville Area Commission - Morse -  Bethel Connector says:

" For over three decades, there has been debate about building a bridge over the Olentangy River to connect Morse and Bethel roads. Morse Road is located in the northern portion of Clintonville. Morse Road is located within District 7, 8 and 9 of the Clintonville Area Commission."

Originally proposed in 1968!

Slide the map to the west if you need to... Bethel Road ends at 315 and the Olentangy River. Morse Rd. ends at High Street.

In the 1990's the Morse - Bethel Connector was proposed to go through Graceland Shopping Center.  With the redevelopment of Graceland... that did not happen.

Rathbone Road was the other place mentioned.  Rathbone Road is the southernmost street in the Delawanda Park neighborhood.  Rathbone Road is the street north of Old Beechwold.

It is interesting to think of how different Columbus would be today if the Morse - Bethel Connector had been built, in the 1960's or the 1990s.  

The east west roads that cross the Olentangy are Dublin Granville Rd in Worthington (161) and Henderson and W. North Broadway in Clintonville. Last year W. Henderson Road was out of commission, along with 315 being under construction.  Not so easy to get around.  This years construction on 315 seems mild in comparison.

The Delawanda Park neighborhood is in north Columbus near the Delawnda Park and Ride on High St. The Delawanda Park neighborhood is near Delawanda Park, a city of Columbus Park on the Olentangy River... the park named Delawanda Park  is also known as Kenney Park.

Where is Delawanda Park, the neighborhood?  South of Graceland and north of Old Beechwold.  Back in the 1920s and 1930's this area had a Worthington mailing address, it was out in the country... well in Sharon Township.  Did neighborhoods like Delawanda Park, Old Beechwold, Tremont Gardens have Worthington mailing adresses into the 1950s?  or 1960s? 

Streets in the Delawanda Park neighborhood include Rathbone, Leland, Girard and .... Milton. Milton is the Delawanda Park neighborhood street I forget.  There is a section of Milton Ave. north from Rathbone Rd. write up to Graceland.  And is there a house on Delawanda Park?  One house?

Not from around these parts?  If Morse Rd. crossed High St, it would be where Rathbone Rd. is.   The Delawanda Park neighborhood north of Ratbone Rd. and the Old Beechwold neighborhood south of Rathbone Rd.   Both Old  Beechwold and the Delawanda Park neighborhood are in the  Clintonville Commission's District 6  

If you've heard talk of the Bethel Road connector over the years, either the Delawanda Park neighborhood  or Graceland probably would have been where the connector would have gone through. Will there ever be a connector?  I would have thought 20 years ago that there would be a road connecting "Clintonville" to the northwest side of Columbus.  I don't think there ever will be now.  I will post something about the  Bethel Road connector someday.

The Delawanda

Graceland

Columbus Ohio 43214 home prices  - a recent market report for the area

Brought to you by 301 Girard Rd. Columbus OH. 43214 a Delawanda Park home.

Real Living HER Open House List - July 18 , 2010

Real Living HER Open House List -  July 18, 2010 says there are 241 open house

The number of open houses scheduled will probably go up today at one or two o'clock when open houses generally start.  Each open house on the list says what time it open.

The Real Living HER Open House List is not an archive.  If you look at it always has the current open houses, rather than history.  The list is in "real time."

This link to the Real Living HER Open House List is on my website, MaureenMcCabe.com  I am not hosting all the Real Living open houses, but it will say presented by Maureen McCabe on my website.  The list provides you contact info for each Open House, if you need to contact the listing agent or host for that home.

Just about every Real Living HER agent in Central Ohio should have the Real Living HER Open House List displayed on their website.

Worthington real estate - Open Sunday July 18, 2010

6467 Bellbrook Pl. Worthington, Ohio 43085 a property in the City of Worthington, in Linworth,  Open House Sunday July 18, 2010 hosted by Maureen McCabe Real Living HER

Jamie Sweet is a Columbus home stager, her site is Modern Touch Home Interiors

The whole wide world... 

Jamie is a member of ActiveRain the largest online real estate network in the US.  Actually ActiveRain is international, we hob knob with lots of Canadians, there's a home stager from New Zealand, a real estate agent from Australia... I met Jamie through ActiveRain.   You are reading this on an ActiveRain site... unless of course this post  has been syndicated or hijacked!

Jamie's ActiveRain profile:    Jamie Sweet - Modern Touch Home Interiors

There's no place like home...  Columbus Ohio

Real estate is local.  Home staging is local.  You can look at a lot of pretty photos online but to get  your home staged it is good old fashioned face to face, isn't it?

Jamie wrote:

"Top Seven Reasons You Should Professionally Stage Your Home 

(1)  Your House Will Sell Faster Which = More Money and Less Headache and Stress*

(2)   You Will Make More Money

(3)   The Cost of Staging Dosen't Cost a Dime

(4)   Only 10% of Home Buyers Can Visualize the Potential of a Home

(5)   Most Home Sellers Cannot View their House Objectively

(6)   Your Online Photos Will Stand Out Amongst the Competition

(7)   Leaving Your House in "AS IS" Condition Will Only Help Sell The Competition"

Jamie quotes an NAR (the trade organization most Central Ohio real estate agents belong to, the National Association of REALTORS®) study about how important home staging is for home sellers.

* A National Association of Realtors survey found that the longer a home stays on the market, the further below list price it drops. Homes that sold in the first 4 weeks averaged 1% more than the list price; 4 to 12 weeks averaged 5% less; 13 to 24 weeks averaged 6.4% less than list price; and 24 weeks averaged more than 10% less than list price."

Quoting liberally with Jamie's permission.

All Jamie's Columbus home stager  -  Modern Touch Home Interiors contact info is on her profile.  Link above.

Columbus City Parks with aliases Delawanda Park may be shown on maps but Delawanda is an alias...

Google calls it Delawanda Park...

but Delawanda Park is AKA Kenney Park.

"Also known as"  as a kid I read the book 'Helter Skelter' about the Manson Family murders ...  perhaps I skipped a paragraph or two...  I believe it was the pictures of the Manson family members... they had "AKA" names.  I read it as "Ahka" throughout the books.  I think I knew it meant they used other names.  It may  have been my first crime book because "Also known as" never crossed my mind.  I think I was done reading before my older, smarter sister  told me AKA meant "also known as."

'Duh!"

Delawanda Park the City of Columbus Recreation and Parks site calls it  Kenney Park.... Delawanda or Kenney Park is in north Columbus, just south of Worthington, west of Graceland Shopping Center. The park runs along the Olentangy River.

The City of Columbus site says of Kenney Park:

"Also known as Delawanda Park."   Delawanda Park is the alias!

When Columbus nature blogger  Tom Arbour writes about his old stomping grounds in north Columbus he writes about Kenney Park.  I was recently wondering where the border was between Kenney Park and Delawanda Park and somehow became aware Kenney Park is AKA Delawanda Park.

"Ah Ha!"

Tom Arbour wrote Return to Kenney Park earlier this year.  Earlier in June while he was out west in Yellowstone Park, his Ohio Nature blog ran reruns of old posts during Olentangy Week ...

On Ohio Nature Blog Tom Arbour  wrote: 

"Olentangy Week- This week I'll be presenting images from my most recent trip to my old stomping grounds, the Olentangy River at Kenney Park while I'm away at Yellowstone National Park.  "

Arbour's images of life on the Olentany River include 

Odocoileus virginianus  AKA White-tailed Deer

Ardea herodias  AKA Great Blue Heron

Rana catesbeiana  AKA Bullfrog

Someplace on his blog, perhaps during Olentangy Week, Arbour said Kenney Park is on both sides of the Olentangy River.

Other Columbus parks with an alias?   Schiller Park in German Village. It was City Park.  It became Schiller Park, during WWI the name was changed to Washington Park because of anti German sentiments.  

I have to wonder why the City of Columbus Park sometimes known as Delawanda Park has two names... 

Are there other Columbus Parks with aliases?

North Columbus- Clintonville area - Sharon Heights

Delawanda means...

Clintonville area Zillow refers to it as "Sharon Heights"

Creeping Clintonville border blame Columbus real estate agents

The Delawanda

The Delawanda was where the Delawanda Park and Ride is today.  The Delawanda was a "tea-room" in the late 20s and early 1930s.  The Delawanda would have been in an unincorporated area, Sharon Township back in the 1920s and 1930s, north of Columbus.  The Delawanda had a Worthington address, the Village of Worthington would have been closer than a Columbus post office at the time?  It makes me wonder if Old Beechwold had a Worthington address in the 1920s and 1930s. The park and ride is north of Rathbone Rd. The Old Beechwold neighborhood is just south of Rathbone Rd.

4939 N. High St. Columbus Ohio 43214

There is a photo of The Delawanda with family members standing out front on Bleimes Flickr photostream, a collection of family photos.  

The Delawanda - Worthington, Ohio

Bleimes on Flickr (a grand daughter of the 5 year old in the photo of The Delawanda with family members out front on High Street) r identifies those in the photo as:

"George R Bleimes, George Bleimes 5, Arko von Ritterschloss (dog), William "Billy" McCarty."  and the building behind them as  "Delawanda Tea Room, Worthington, Ohio. ca 1929. "

The family history by George Bleimes (the 5 year old boy in the photo) says:

"About 1927 mother and grandmother opened a dining establishment in our house that they called a “tea-room” and named it The Delawanda. Seating for customers was in the three front rooms. They had a 12’ X 20’ room added to the back for a kitchen and a first floor lavatory installed."

The Bleimes family history shows the same photo as the one on Flickr, with the family standing in front, with the 'The Delawanda'  sign.  Also another photo straight on and closer up, the first photo in the history shows the house at 4939 N. High St. which was "The Delawanda" a tea-room.

Columbus Ohio 43214 home sales

Clintonville Area Zillow refers to it as Sharon Heights

Creeping Clintonville Border - blame Columbus real estate agents

Columbus Ohio 43235 home sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

The graph shows Columbus Ohio 43235 single family home sales for the past 15 months.  Home saies in Columbus Ohio 43235 were up 42.3% in May 2010.  The red line is pending home sales. 

The Columbus Ohio 43235 ZIP code is the West Worthington area, it was part of the 43085 ZIP code until the late 1980s (ancient history now.)  The Columbus Ohio 43235 post office is on Nicholas Rd. south of 161 and west of Linworth.

Columbus Ohio 43235 pending home sales - the red line

Home sales in the entire US were subject to a home buyers tax credit as long as the qualified buyer had the home in contract by April 30, 2010.  The red line is pended sales.  I try not to pay attention to pended sales.  This month and last that is tough.  I think there is a lag so it is not dependable info.

Columbus Ohio 43235 home sales a market report for May 2010

• Homes for sale - 133
• Homes sold - 37
• Months of inventory based on current sales - 3.6

• Average active price - $288,000
• Average sale price - $247,000
• Median sale price - $234,000

Columbus Ohio 43235 home sales neighborhoods

The Columbus 43235 ZIP code has neighborhoods in three different school districts, Columbus, Dublin and Wortthington.

Columbus City School District

Courtney Place, The Gables, Indian Hills, Katherines Ridge, Linworth Village and at least one other neighborhood in the Columbus City School District had home sales in May 2010.

Dublin City School District

Brookside Colony, Foxboro, Oakridge Meadows, Summerwood* had May 2010 home sales.  These neighborhoods are in the Dublin City School District.

Worthington City School District

Brookside Estates, Brookside Woods*, Stilson Highlands, Summerwood*, Village at Worthington, Worthington Hills, Worthingview are neighborhoods with May 2010 sales in Worthington Schools.

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale - Search

Columbus Ohio 43235 neighborhoods

Worthington Hill homes fore sale

Brookside Neighborhoods

Worthingview is in Worthington Schools

*Brookside Woods, Olde Sawmill and Summerwood are neighborhoods with homes in more than one school district.  The Central Ohio school district boundaries were set long before the majority of the area was developed.  Each home is in a set school district.

Published June 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of May  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 its accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."   No guarantee from me either!

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