Worthington area history - Flint Ohio
This property is NOT for sale. This is strictly about the homes history.
The area known as Flint in Ohio was a village north of the Village of Worthington, both villages were in Sharon Township.
The Park Road area and the area which was Flint are part of the Worthington City School District.
According to Worthington Memory the former Flint Train Station was moved from the railroad tracks on Park Road in the 200 block almost to Worthington Galena Road. Worthington Memory gives the address of the house as 525 Park Road.
I have known this house for years, I never knew it was the former Flint Train Station though, when I saw the picture of it on the Worthington Memory site I recognized it right away. The picture (link above) of the Former Flint Train Station on the Worthington Memory site is so much better than mine, here...
Sadly the auditors photo of the former Flint Train Station is better than mine. That is really sad.
Worthington area history - Flint
The Worthington Memory project's exteded information about the property says of the former Flint Train Station:
"It is the former Flint Train station, built around 1870-1880. It was moved from its original site by the tracks in the early 1930's to what was then the McElvane Orchards."
The auditors site says the house was built in 1920. Records are kind of garbled. Transfers only go back to 
earlier this decade (2001...) and the address has changed. More than once? Twice since the late 1990's? This property and the house east of it were both on large lots. The land was developed into a neighborhood earlier this decade. The numbers on the houses on Park Road may have been changed because of the new houses in the Worthington Trace subdivision.
NOT for sale
NOTE: the former Flint Train Station is not for sale. It is owned by the developer.
Was there an address change? The home which is owned by a real estate developer was in the MLS
Address: 575 PARK RD (1999 and 2001 on the market)
Address: 533 PARK RD 2002 on the market
I saw the former Flint Train Station when it was on the market in 2002. I did not have a clue about it's history at the time. The Worthington Memory site says there is still a ticket window in back (I wonder if the back is between the house and the garage.) I don't remember a ticket window but I remember the house was different but I did NOT see that it was a former train station. I can see it now. A little country train station. I can see that it was a train startion more from the side now. I can see it in the shape of the roof line. I can see the train station in the eaves.
I think there is a one story addition on the back which is not original. I am not sure the front porch is original to the former Flint Train Station either. The long building would have been parallel to the train tracks in Flint I believe.
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Hi Maureen - I wonder what the train station looked like originally. Do you think the siding was added at a later date? I love historic old train stations. I took a few photos over the summer when I was out and about.
I think the present siding was added later.Probably to make it look more like a house less like the old train station,
I would think it would have been darker colors not white because trains stations sat close to the tracks and would have been sprinkled with cinders. I keep picturing the Wausau Wi train station from insurance ads, I don't know if I have seen that many old country train stations in real life, I tried looking for old photos to get an idea of what it would have looked like as a train station.