Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Historic Resources Commission (HRC) (CC 3117) is charged, in part, with identifying districts, sites, buildings, structures, and/or objects that are of significance to the historical, architectural, or cultural development of the city, state, or nation; maintaining a list of these districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects; and providing regulation of these properties through design review. With these goals in mind, the Commission provides recommendations to City Council for the potential listing of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and/or objects on the Columbus Register of Historic Properties.
An application has been made by Drew May/Columbus Housing Partnership, Inc. (Applicant), in cooperation with Blueprint Community Development, LLC. (Owner), to list the property located at 440 Taylor Ave., the Pilgrim School, on the Columbus Register of Historic Properties. The subject building is locally significant as intact example of the “one of a small group of schools on the Near East Side of Columbus that the federal courts identified as having been intentionally established and maintained as an all-Black school. It remained racially isolated for roughly a quarter century after the United States Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, until court-ordered desegregation finally reached it in 1979.” (May p.7) The period of significance for the building is 1921-1922 (construction & opening), 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education) & 1977-1979 (Pennick v. Columbus bd. Education).
The nominated property is situated on the north portion of Franklin County Parcel 010-066727-00 in the city of Columbus and state of Ohio. The site is just over three acres, including the building footprint and ball field extending to Harvard Avenue. There is one contributing building and one contributing site. The historic nomination boundary and contributing building is limited to the histori...
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