October 2024.
This sequel to my original Schiller Park post specifically covers the houses that surround it. Of course, being a major architecture nerd, I enjoyed walking across all four sides and looking at the pretty houses in addition to the park. We’ll start at the southwest corner of the park on City Park Avenue and walk clockwise until returning to where we began.
Schiller Park is located at 1069 Jaeger Street in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It is bordered by Reinhard Avenue to the north, Deshler Avenue to the south, Jaeger Street to the east, and City Park Avenue and Stewart Alternative Elementary School to the west.
History
Most of the houses in this area are Italianates and date to the 1870s and 1880s. This is the signature architecture of German Village. However, later styles include Folk Victorian, Queen Anne, and American Foursquare houses that were built in the 1890s and 1900s. These houses have mostly been left unmolested since, but there is one “intrusion,” which is a Modernist apartment complex at the intersection of Jaeger and Stewart.
Photos
1023 City Park Avenue
According to the county auditor’s website, this house was built in 1883. It is an Italianate design that is extremely common in this area--a rectangular mass with a perpendicular entrance area. This house in particular highlights the strict guidelines that German Village requires for renovations to a home--even though the windows are modern, they use a four-pane pattern that the originals would have had.
Side note--I hear a lot of people complain about how compliance with historic district regulations is expensive. If you want a historic home but don’t want to modify it in accordance with the neighborhood’s character, DON’T LIVE IN A HISTORIC DISTRICT. It is literally that simple. They also can’t control what you do inside the house, anyways, so rip out all the original wood trim and install millennial gray laminate if you so desire.
1017 City Park Avenue
This Italianate is actually a duplex. It is very symmetrical in its design and has intricately carved stone hood molds.
Looking down City Park Avenue, where we just came:
I was definitely less stringent about my coverage for “dump articles” at this point, as I took pictures of certain details but not the main facades of some houses. This is 949 City Park’s chimneys and roof finials:
Don’t worry, whatever hair was on my image sensor here is long gone.
Fall leaves match the red hues of these American Foursquares at City Park and Reinhard:
938 City Park has its original slate roof:
Some of the more pedestrian Folk Victorian houses on Reinhard Avenue:
The one on the left, in particular, has had a sunroom added to the porch (which also has stone columns to support it).
172 Reinhard Avenue
This Italianate has been mostly covered in stucco, with a few bricks exposed. It gives the house a sort of Mission Revival look to it. The windows also appear to be original.
184 Reinhard Avenue
Now we’re getting into the Queen Annes, which are my favorite houses along the streets that line Schiller Park. This house was built circa 1890-1900, and it has some Romanesque Revival characteristics with its twin arched windows on the second floor. Other interesting touches include the oxeye window above the porch and the florid art glass transom above the first floor picture window.
188 Reinhard Avenue
188 Reinhard is 184 Reinhard’s eastern counterpart, and it has a similar plan that is mirrored. This house specifically seems to have some Richardsonian Romanesque influence with the contrasting stone vaults and lintels that crown each window.
196 Reinhard Avenue
196 Reinhard was built as an Italianate but seems to have been updated with some Queen Anne features, such as the sunburst woodwork on the gable. The awnings on the south side are lovely and period-appropriate, also something seldom seen on historic buildings these days. Along with the vibrantly painted gable, the porch has similar coloration.
Looking down Reinhard towards Parsons:
Julius Kremer House (948 Jaeger Street)
Historic photo of the house. (German Village Society)
This distinctive house sticks out from its neighbors due to its size and the care put into its design. Architect Julius Kremer, who was a native of Germany, designed and built the house for himself circa 1885 (it appears in Handsome Homes of Columbus, published 1887.) It is a unique blend of Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. Kremer designed the Hartman Hotel downtown and West Market in Franklinton, both buildings I’ve visited, as well as the Auglaize County Courthouse in Wapakoneta.
The house’s Richardsonian Romanesque influence can be seen in its broad arched portal, multicolored stone facade (which was compared to liver pudding and headcheese by German Village residents), and sturdy appearance. Otherwise, the floor plan, wood shingles, and tower are more standard Queen Anne features. Although it would have been cost-prohibitive to cover the entire house in stone, the Jaeger Street facade has several decorative details in its masonry, such as grotesques on the bay windows and two lions flanking the porch.
2024 me didn’t really do this one justice--I probably would have given it its own post today.
994 Jaeger Street
Now we’re back to the Italianates. Alongside the original house’s wooden cornice and stone hood molds, it has received an addition on the south side, which mimics the forms and fenestration of the Italianate style. The original entrance has been made into a larger window.
1010 Jaeger Street
A classic American Foursquare that was built as a duplex but seemingly converted into a single home, it has a highly symmetrical design and an uncommon slate roof with hexagonal tiles. The roof’s eaves broadly hang over the walls and the rafters are exposed, a trait taken from the Prairie style.
1018 Jaeger Street
Here’s our outlier--this apartment complex was built in 1962; though even for an overall Mid-Century Modern design, it makes a passable attempt to mimic the Italianate design of its surroundings with a hipped roof, brick exterior, and concrete hood molds and sills. Yes, it increases density a bit in the area, but it comes at the cost of architectural character.
217-219 East Deshler Avenue
This Queen Anne house, built circa 1890-1900, has two prominent gables with scalloped trim and a small turret atop the corner of the roof.
207 East Deshler Avenue
Another Queen Anne, this one has a large corner tower, some classical details such as a porch with Doric columns and cornices along the roofline. It also retains original roof finials on the tower and the main roof’s peak.
199 East Deshler Avenue
This humble Craftsman house looks very out of place next to the massive Italianates and Queen Annes that surround it. Built in 1914, its broad shed-roofed dormer and perpendicular roof are common features of that style.
Kahn House (165 East Deshler Avenue)
Despite having a more unique appearance, all I could find about this one is a picture of its fireplace from the 1980s labeled the “Kahn Residence.” The house has very distinctive brickwork, and the stone lintels uniquely have a course that winds its way across the entire facade. I like the entrance tower, too.
157 East Deshler Avenue
This house’s appearance is a Queen Anne overall, but it has classical ornamentation in the Ionic columns and pilasters across the exterior. I like the rounded corner that suggests a tower or turret.
147 East Deshler Avenue
This fancy Italianate house is HUGE, and it has a private yard. It sold for almost $3 million in 2022. Again, I couldn’t find any details on its architect or original owner.
131 East Deshler Avenue
This is a simpler American Foursquare without a fancy porch or bay windows. It has a buff brick facade, and I like the cables keeping the tall chimneys from toppling over.
117 East Deshler Avenue
I love this very vertical Queen Anne and its steeply pitched roof. The varying pitches and gables make it look very serrated, like an abstract mountain range.
111 East Deshler Avenue
A wonky, contemporary-ish house, this design is much later than others in the area and was built in 1994.
This post is definitely a good look at how the quality and quantity of my photos has changed. If I revisited at this point, I probably would have had at least five photos for each individual house, and also included others that I missed the first time. I like to keep older journeys like this one as they are, just as a testament to my progress.
Sources:
https://gis.franklincountyohio.gov/parcelviewer/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4084cm.g4084cm_g066561891/?sp=3
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/147-E-Deshler-Ave-Columbus-OH-43206/33829366_zpid/
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