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Nagy Shoe Repair Building – Columbus Historic Site
Columbus Landmarks Announces Protection, Recognition for our 1st Endangered Properties Investment

Columbus Landmarks is proud to announce that our purchase and continued research into the 2020 Most Endangered Sites – Nagy Brothers Shoe Repair in the Hungarian Village, a South Side community, has been listed with the Columbus Register of Historic Properties. Columbus Landmarks has placed a protective Preservation Easement onto the building as well. Columbus Landmarks worked with the Nagy Family heirs to acquire the historic commercial building for $35,000. With this sale price, the family has entrusted Columbus Landmarks to preserve the building and to connect it to a new owner for an appropriate and productive use that respects its important place in local history.

 

More about the Nagy Brothers Shoe Repair Cultural Site
The 1932 commercial building is a small, single-story, painted brick and block structure with intact original interior fixtures and equipment. The southern section (with peaked roof) was originally an automobile service station. Joseph and Steve Nagy, both deceased, purchased the building just after World War II, added on to the building, and operated Nagy Brothers Shoe Repair for 63 years along the Parsons Avenue Business Corridor of Columbus’ South End. Joseph Nagy walked a block from his Hungarian Village home to this shop daily, until his retirement in 2009. The site represents diversity in the city’s cultural inheritance and an opportunity to recognize, remember, and preserve overlooked assets.