Worthington real estate

Home Market - Worthington Ohio  - 1941 

The photo is from March 1941, it was Lent...  look up to the right of the shop keepers head. "Birds Eye, Lenten Double Values, Haddock..." 

Home Market was a grocery store on High Street in Worthington. In a 1964 Worthington Chamber publication on Flickr an ad for Home Market gave the address as 660 High St. Worthington.   

660 High St. Worthington Ohio is  Scotties!

Worthington Memory a project of the Worthington Historical Society also tells me that the Home Market is the building which was Scottie Mac Beans for years,  now Scotties Coffee and Teas.

The photo is from Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream.  O'Brien grew up on W.Wilson Bridge Rd in the 1930's and 1940's and has a great collection of Worthington photos.  O'Brien identifies the proprietor of the Home Market as Clyde Bachelor.  The Home Market photo is part of O'Brien's Worthington Business series on Flickr,

Home Market Ad - 1940

Worthington Streets- the business district

A 1980 Worthington Memorial Day Parade Photo on the Worthington Memory site says Home Market is in the background.  1980?  Really?  It is hard to believe a grocery store like that could have survived that long.  In the era when Don O Brien grew up there was a Kroger and an A and P right across the street on High Street in Old Worthington.

Image credit :   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0

Happy 206th Birthday to St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio.

Somewhere I have a picture of the historical marker at St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio.... found it! In  Worthington and Parts Adjacent  the historical marker pictured says:

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

Articles of Agreement executed  is the same thing as a birthday? Isn't it?  The historical marker goes on about that the church was planned in New England.  St. John Church was the first Episcopal Church in the Northwest Territory.

Ohio Channel about the historical marker with a picture of it you can read.

This photo was taken last March.  Spring.... it is going to be spring soon!

If I took a photo of St. John Episcopal Church today it would be a beautiful  snowy "New England" scene.  I heard on the news last night 7" of snow but it snowed more overnight.  I was out already this morning... but not in Old Worthington. Maybe later today I will run over and take a photo of the church on it's 206th Birthday.  The church is right on the Worthington Village Green. St. John Episcopal's address is 700 High St. Worthington OH 43085

I believe the birthday is for the church, not the building... but I'd be taking a photo of the building of course.

Happy Birthday to  St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington Ohio

More about Worthington Ohio

Worthington Ohio this day in history

Worthington a New England village in Central Ohio

Old Worthington News

Worthington, Ohio: 1939 is another of the historic photos in Don O'Brien's  Flickr Photostream. 

The car is a 1939 Packard ambulance according to O'Brien's notes. The owner according to O'Brien was S. E. Corbin and Son Funeral Directors, so it is a hearse?  Ambulance and hearse were the same thing?

In the background you can see the Worthington Village Green, St. John's Episcopal Church and an little bit of the Kilbourne Building which would have been the Worthington Library in 1939.

I'd assume Don took the photo in early December.  No snow.  A picture across the Worthington Green would be white today in 2009, but the snow came after Christmas Day.

Worthington, Ohio history

Don O'Brien's Flikr Photostream is a great place to see Worthington Ohio in the 1930 and 1940's (link below.)   This picture was taken in December 1939 for a full page advertisement for the funeral home in the Worthington News.

More about Worthington, Ohio history:

Worthington, Ohio history

Old Worthington the Old Worthington neighborhood today was the original Village of Worthington which was settled in 1803.  The Village had not grown much (at all?)  by the time Don O'Brien was growing up in the Worthington area in the 1930's and 1940's.

Image credit and creative commons license 

Worthington - Santa Claus is coming to town - Sunday for the  Holiday Open House and Christmas Tree Lighting (a pdf from Worthington.org the city of Worthington website with all the details.) 

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus and Worthington is a city, not a town but Santa Claus will be in Worthington on on Sunday

Sunday November 29, 2009 Open House in the shops and restaurants on High Street in Worthington from Noon to 5:30.

Santa Claus will be hanging out at the Worthington Inn, outfront in the sleigh. The Worthington Inn is at 649 High St. Worthington, Ohio, 43085

Christmas Tree Lighting at 5:30 PM on the southeast corner of the  Worthington Green.  The Worthington.org document says:

"At 5:30 p.m. gather at the southeast Village Green to watch as hundreds of lights illuminate the sky for Worthington’s annual tree lighting ceremony. Festivities include a visit from Santa, the lighting of candles and the singing of traditional holiday carols."

The photo is the window of Zettler Hardware in Worthington in 2008.  Zettler Hardware is at 661 High St, Worthington, Ohio 43085. Photo is George Campbells, geocam20000's photostream 

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Early October News on the Worthington.org site - Worthington's Kilbourne Memorial Building is getting a little work done.

Kilbourne exterior work  a .pdf document says: 

"The former library and later School Board office, now owned by the City of Worthington, is getting a facelift including many exterior improvements."

Old landscaping ripped out... new to be installed in the spring of 2010

New metal roof

New gutters

Paint on the trim

I had walked around Worthington's Kilbourne Memorial Building and took some photos in August.  It needed some work.

I took these photos today with the paint scraped off the door frame, a dumpster out in front, caution tape and some gaping holes in the fascia. 

Worthington is getting the old building ready for it's future.  The building got new options this past year for commercial uses.

Previously about Worthington's Kilbourne Memorial Building

Old Worthington Building gets new options

Worthington Ohio Village Green a group of Worthington school children, in 1941 in front of the library at the time.

A video of "The Tale of Rap, Rap, Rap" -  a Worthington Ghost Story

A spooky Worthington tale brought to you by the Worthington Public Library.

Today the old building is 'Fine Lines'  a store that sells paper, cards, stationery, wrapping paper, wedding invitations, pens... and that sort of thing.

'Fine Lines' is at 657 High Street in Worthington, in Old... Olde Worthington. The story goes the building on High Street just north of the Worthington Inn was built in 1890 as a general store.

The Worthington 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 still hear coming from the store's back room."

The door on the alley ... the door to the back room at Fine Lines says "No Entrance" are store employees still trying to keep Irwin out?

Worthington Libraries

The video features photos from the Worthington Historical Society. Real historical photos.  Mine here are of course doctored up for Halloween.  Speaking of "Doctors" have you seen the video about the Worthington ghost story about Dr. Morrow's ghost?  It's from Worthington Libraries too.

Fine Lines, 657 High St., Worthington Ohio 43085

Old Worthington Business District  in 1938 or 1939

I don't like the e on the end of  the old in "Old Worthington", that is how the Worthington business association spells it, Olde Worthington.  The residential area surrounding the businesses on High Street is called Old Worthington, I am using it for all of it.  

Another old picture from Don O'Brien who grew up in Worthington. If you have an interest in Worthington History you have to visit his photos on Flickr for pictures of Worthington in the 1930s and 1940s.

Old Worthington Business District - corner of High Street and ...

The sign on the corner says: Free Parking.  I am trying to figure out what corner this is.

O'Brien says Home Market, a grocery store in the photo.   I wish I knew what the Home Market's address was. I looked at the old ad to see if there was an address.  O'Brien shared an old ad via Flickr from Home Market.  Fun to see the pricing.

Old Worthington Businesses

Other businesses O'Brien identified in the photo include "Eicher Insurance, Johnson Hardware, Conklin Restaurant, Buell Drygoods"  On Flickr O'Brien also says the telephone operators were above Home Market.  I can read the sign on Home Market if I look at the largest version of the photo on Flickr.  Home Market is the building the car across the street is in front of.  The upstairs has awnings on the windows.

photo credit

O'Brien's photo is licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows commercial use.

Worthington (Ohio) Village Green is the way Don O'Brien identified his photo on Flickr

O'Brien's photo from September 1941 of a Worthington Library Group makes me wonder if the Worthington Library was at that time the building facing the northeast quardrant of the Green. Of course it  in  Old Worthington Building Gets New Options    I say it was built as a library in 1927 so it is not a stretch of the imagination that it could be a library a mere 14 years later. 

Timeless Worthington Ohio Village Green

Worthington - Patriot Day September 11, 2008

Worthington St. John's Episcopal Church

Worthington Good Friday Service

Worthington Presbyterian

Patriot Day - Worthington 2009 September 11, 2009

I thought there was an Arbor Day post about the Worthington Green here too but I can not find it.

Maureen McCabe

Old Worthington's Clearview Subdivision - brought to you by Maureen McCabe

I guess I don't think of there being subdivisions within Old Worthington but of course there are, because Old Worthington is the historic Village of Worthington which was planned and built by pioneers from New England.  In 'Worthington Neighborhoods' a book written by Jennie McCormick and published by the Worthington Historical Society, Clearview is NOT one of the neighborhoods described but there is information about the Clearview Subdivision in the the "chapter" (one page) on Medick Estates since Frank C. Medick was developing it at the same time he was building his personal residence, Boulder Lodge in what someday became Medick Estates. 

Worthington's Clearview Subdivision was platted in 1928.

I sometimes think of Old Worthington people (the settlers or proprieters), calling it "Old Worthington."

Old Worthington's Clearview Subdivision - location

The Clearview Subdivision is from North Street to what McCormick describes as "the newly created Clearview Ave" between Evening Street and Oxford Streets, 30 lots in all. 

In Worthington Neighborhoods it says in advertisements for the Clearview Subdivision described Worthington as "three fine churches, good schools, a good trading center and street car service within a square."  I have to say I keep puzzling over "within a square."  I guess it is the square that was Worthington?   What is now Old Worthington, from North Street to South Street and Morning Street to Evening Street.  

Maybe what had me confused by the phrase "within a square" was the next sentence in the "Worthington Neighborhods' book that mentioned street car service from Worthington to Capital Square in Columbus.

Clearview Subdivision or "Addition" as it shows in the Franklin County records was and is a square within a square, just a street cars ride away from Capital Square.  Worthington had been established in 1803 so the Village was already over 100 years old when Medick platted the Clearview Subdivision.

More about Old Worthington:

Worthington a part of the plan

St. John Episcopal Church in Worthington

Worthington Presbyterian

Worthington Churches - I'm guessing the third Worthington Church in 1928 was the Methodist Church? Worthington United Methodist Church is there in the center square as are the Worthington Prebyterian Church and St. John's Episcopal Church.

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

Worthington football - at this weeks football games the Worthington spectators will probably look a little different than they did back in 1941.

Mike Harden's Columbus Dispatch column on Sunday was about a new book written by a gentleman from Bexley.  I wrote about that column on ColumbusBestBlog.com   Sorry, Downtown Columbus is Closed

“Once upon a time.. “   long, long before I ever moved to Columbus there was a downtown with ladies with hats and gloves and men in fedoras and suits according to Mike Harden’s column about a book written by David Cohen." 

They were even wearing fedoras in the suburbs.. to football games!  Or was Worthington a Columbus suburb in 1941?  Was Worthington just a little old fashioned town north of Columbus in 1941?

Are those fedoras?  I am not 100% on 1941 haberdashery...  lots of the men are wearing hats, overcoats, suits to a football game.

Worthington (Ohio) High School Football in 1941

Visit Flickr for more of Don O'Brien's historic photos of Worthington.  This photo is described by the photographer, a young shutter bug:

"I took this with a Super Ikomat A late in the football season during 1941. Searching faces in the large size I don't recognize anyone. I find it interesting to see what spectators wore at games in that era."

Worthington football fans named Martha or Gwen c. 1941 

If you go look at the photo on Flickr you will see a comment that he left that classmates had picked out two girls in the crowd and they are identified.  Know anyone named Martha or Gwen who'd have been a spectator in 1941?  You can see a much larger version on Flickr, see faces clearly.

On another football photo from 1941 O'Brien says: "I was 17 and a senior, two months before Pearl Harbor." Putting the football season of 1941 in perspective.

Todays Worthington football - 2009 Season

Thomas Worthington Cardinals

Worthington Kilbourne Wolves

Photo Credit

This entry brought to you by Maureen McCabe