SCAVENGER TAG US -OR- SHARE IN YOUR STORIES HIGH STREET BROAD STREET LeVeque Tower E City Hall (Former) Deshler Hotel Columbus Metropolitan G B Library Ohio STATE STREET Columbus F Topiary Scioto Statehouse Park Mile Riffe Center C D Bricker & Eckler GRANT HIGH STREET Ohio Theatre Building TOWN STREET FOURTH STREET THIRD STREET A Lazarus Building H Columbus Commons Bicentennial Park A LAZARUS BUILDING D OHIO THEATRE G COLUMBUS TOPIARY PARK High/State/Town/and Front Streets 39 E. State St 480 E. Town St. Occupying nearly four city blocks, the Lazarus A National Historic Landmark, the Ohio Theatre Formerly known as the Old Deaf School Park, the Building was Columbus’ premiere department came perilously close to demolition before being Columbus’ Topiary Park features numerous store for almost 100 years. Between its closure in rescued by the Columbus Association for the topiary sculptures and a small pond. Be sure to 2004 and 2008, the building was beautifully Performing Arts in 1969. Its stone and terra cotta check out the marked spot at the park: “As He restored and now is home to many different Beaux Arts exterior belies its sumptuous interior Saw It.” The park is a living recreation of which tenants, including The Center for Architecture and finishes, best described as Moorish Baroque. post-Impressionist painter’s painting? Design. During the holidays, the building’s Town Why do you think it’s important to preserve Street windows were famous for their lavish buildings like the Ohio Theatre? displays. What’s in the exhibit windows right now at The Center for Architecture and Design? B OHIO STATEHOUSE E DESHLER HOTEL (FORMER) H COLUMBUS COMMONS Broad/Third/State/and High Streets Northwest Corner of Broad and High High/Third/Rich/and State Streets The construction of the Greek Revival structure Featured in the Green Book, an annual guide of This beautiful 6-acre green space in the heart of took 22 years with much of the work performed by hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. for Downtown is full of gardens, a carousel, cafes, a convict laborers from the nearby Ohio Penitentiary. African-American travelers, the Deshler Hotel was play area and a performance pavilion where On the east side of the building on Third Street is a an iconic landmark in Columbus from 1916 to many concerts are held during the summer special plaza with 88 flags representing Ohio’s 1969, and billed as one of the Midwest’s premiere months. The area previously was the site of the counties. Who does the plaza honor? hotels. Look at the photo of the Deshler Hotel City Center Mall and the Centrum ice skating and think about how it differs from its successor rink. Can you find a plant or flower to draw? Do on the same site. Right across the street on the you know what it is called? southwest corner of the intersection, what is the sculpture (created by Columbus sculptor Stephen Canneto) called? C BRICKER & ECKLER BUILDING F SCIOTO MILE 100 S. 3rd St. 233 S. Civic Center Dr. Romanesque Revival in style, this iconic building at The Scioto Mile is a collection of parks and trails the southeast corner of Third and State streets was along the the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus originally one-third the size of the current building. celebrating the Scioto River and the Columbus The enlargement and remodeling in the early 20th skyline. Follow it to Battelle Riverfront Park on the Century, which featured High Victorian Gothic style northern edge of Downtown until you see a series of bronze sculptures by internationally renowned design features, was so thorough that it resulted in TAG US -OR- SHARE IN YOUR STORIES a single unified style. What purpose did this sculptor James W. Barney. Whose story do they building originally serve? tell us about? Credits: The AIA Guide to Columbus by Jeffrey T. Darbee and Nancy A. Recchie, Columbus Downtown Development Corp. (CDDC) and columbusneighborhoods.org for the Deshler photo..