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 Melinda Shah/Schooley Caldwell (Applicant), in cooperation with Downtown Columbus, Inc. (Owner), to list the property located at 17 S. High St., Huntington National Bank building, on the Columbus Register of Historic Properties. The subject building is locally significant intact example of the “Renaissance Revival style” with association to the “early 20th century commercial development of Columbus’ downtown, when architectural advancement, national banking development, and the speculative mixed-use building type converged in the mid-1920s.” (Shah p. 16) As well as association with, “Huntington Banking family, whose contributions in Columbus at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries molded many industries, institutions, and developments seen today. The influence of the Huntington family is represented by the building, whose founder and sons used their influence to support economic development of Columbus in the 20th century.” (Shah p. 19). The period of significance for the building is 1926-1965, from when the 13-story, rectangular structure was constructed in 1926 (when the conversion and expansion of the original Harrison Building was completed) to 1965, when the trust division moved to its own space at the Huntington Trust Building at Broad & Front Streets, as this marked...
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