January 2026.
While visiting the East North Broadway Historic District in Clintonville, I had my car parked on Oakland Park Avenue, which has some interesting early 20th century homes. I grabbed some photos of the more photogenic houses on my way back from the east end of North Broadway.
Photos
I named these houses after their first owner, which I sourced from the Franklin County Auditor’s website, but I also listed their address for ease of navigation.
Orr Birdella House (265 Oakland Park Avenue)
A lot of these south-facing photos are going to have similar glare issues, unfortunately.
This 1922 Craftsman is an excellent example of the style. Its broadly overhanging eaves, gable-front appearance, large shed-roofed dormer, and wood shingles are all very common features of Craftsman houses. I also like the tapering porch columns.
Evalyn Herrod House (248 Oakland Park Avenue)
I love these kinds of Tudor Revival houses with the absurdly steep gables. This house was completed in 1931. Interesting picturesque features include the mix of masonry and shingle, the swoopy eave on the right, and the asymmetrical facade.
Belle Van Horn House (247 Oakland Park Avenue)
An earlier Craftsman built of masonry, this house was built in 1911. Its gabled roof faces the more common direction (parallel to the longer end of the house), though it also has a large and low dormer. Note the exposed rafters at the ends of each roof.
It seems like the owner may have admired Frank Lloyd Wright--the Prairie School planters on the entrance and the house number’s font are pretty similar to his work.
Note the bay window and art glass surrounding the chimney:
“The Yellow Farm House” (221 Oakland Park Avenue)
Although obviously not yellow anymore, this 1883 house precedes those around it by decades, as it was used as a farmhouse and predates the area’s platting in 1890. The only other source about it is an Art Makes Columbus page, which doesn’t really mention anything that isn't already visible on the Franklin County Auditor’s website. Its green paint was applied between 2016 and 2017.
Jessie Neil House (210 Oakland Park Avenue)
This 1912 Craftsman is extremely wide, an effect amplified by its broad, low-pitched roof and dormer. It looks as if a regular Craftsman house was scaled by 1.5x its length.
Burgess Lawson House (91 Oakland Park Avenue)
Now here’s a more interesting one. This 1912 house has what is known as a gambrel roof, which is one with two different pitches, a steeper one at the bottom and a shallower one on top. The top pitch also continues downward along the central dormer, too. The rest of the house is a typical vernacular Colonial Revival design.
I like the Doric columns on the porch:
Sources:
https://gis.franklincountyohio.gov/parcelviewer/
https://www.columbusmakesart.com/place/10461-the-yellow-farm-house
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