Celebrate Columbus Landmarks’ 35th Anniversary at our Annual Membership Meeting Thursday, May 17 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the offices of Bricker & Eckler, the historic and James B. Recchie Design Award-winning Old, Old Post Office. Tours of the building and the neighboring Central Presbyterian Church building will be available. Thursday, Read more »
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Annual Membership Meeting
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City Hop to Downtown Clubs
0 commentsColumbus Landmarks’ City Hop is breaking tradition this year! Instead of a walking tour of downtown condominiums, we are hosting a unique City Hop Progressive Party that will feature three exclusive downtown clubs. Each club has its own rich history and architectural heritage. We are very pleased to be able to offer access to these Read more »
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200 Years of Stories & Stones
0 commentsTour Green Lawn Cemetery Sunday, June 3 from 1pm – 4pm when volunteers will be stationed at approx. 15 graves of distinguished individuals sharing historical information, funerary inconography and architectural monuments. A self guided tour, free and open to the public. A former slave from the plantation of President Andrew Johnson who worked at Ohio Read more »
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Old House DIY Workshops
0 commentsLearn the tricks of the trade at our Old House DIY Workshops. A healthy house is a cost effective house. Columbus Landmarks’ Old House DIY: Investigating and Troubleshooting Workshop is designed to help home owners identify and resolve common maintenance issues. From the roof top to the foundation, learn to identify the warning signs before Read more »
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Bottoms Up – Historic Tavern Tours are back!
2 commentsOur popular Historic Tavern Tours return with a “mystery tour” featuring three new watering holes: a traditional neighborhood bar that has been quietly in existence for over 50 years; an up-and-coming tavern with a somewhat “shady” past and historic tie to Columbus as a “foodie” town; and a new bar/restaurant residing in an 1890s tavern. Read more »
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Lit, Lives & Landmarks
0 commentsWhat do prisoners and poets, belles and bluestockings, radicals and reporters all have in common? They lived in or were influenced by life in Columbus, Ohio! Join the first in a series of bus tours offered by Columbus Landmarks and Ohioana Library to explore the better known and sometimes overlooked worlds of O’Henry, R.L. Stine, Read more »
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Green Lawn Abbey Workday
0 commentsRoll up your sleeves and help with spring clean-up day at Green Lawn Abbey Saturday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Columbus Landmarks Foundation joins forces with Green Lawn Abbey Preservation Association for their annual spring clean-up. Green Lawn Abbey, located at 700 Greenlawn Ave., is a grand structure built in 1927 by Read more »
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Vacant & Abandoned Buildings Roundtable
0 commentsA Seat at the Table: Bringing the Ohio Preservation Community’s Perspective to Our State’s Vacant and Abandoned Buildings Problem Wednesday, May 23, 10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m., The Barack Recreation Center, 580 E. Woodrow Avenue Every Ohio community is facing the problem of vacant and abandoned buildings – many of them residential properties in historically Read more »
