^^ Great System 3orcfl Busy C\tyy^ implex *gtinide •5 c .- o Mile Square Index, Paved Street and 3*5 House Number of-**** §C 5! 60LUMBU5 AND Road MAP of Franklin Co., O. Better be Safe than Sorry! Insure With HARRY C. HUGHES , ALL LINES OF INSURANCE "EXCEPT LIFE" Reliable Old Line Companies 150 East Broad St., Yuster Bldg. MAin 3280 THEJ RAILROAD EMPLOYES BUILDING & LOAN CO. 60 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio Compounded Semi-Annually Not Restricted to Railroad Employes Place your savings where safety and substantial earnings are assured. Pays 5% Pays 4% We figure interest upon the basis of Interest on Time Deposits INTEREST monthly balances, which means that INTEREST CHECK ON your accumulations are constantly MAILED TO YOU * SAVINGS at work. EVERY SIX MONTHS ACCOUNTS Loans on First Mortgage Improved Money deposited with this company is abso­ Real Estate. Safety Deposit Boxes at lutely safe, as all money is loaned on first mortgage moderate rental cost. real estate security. Money loaned to build homes at current rates of THE OHIO BUILDING & L0AN;C0. interest. J. D. Streeper, President R. H. Wild, Secretary In Our Own Building 22 E. Gay St DREHER'S SIMPLEX MENDEL Street and House Number THE TAILOR MAKES THE 63 BEST CLOTHES s GUIDE FOR THE LEAST MONEY MILE SQUARE INDEX, PAVED SUITS MADE FROM $25.00 TO $50.00 STREET AND HOUSE NUMBER Fit Guaranteed 533 NORTH HIGH ST., COLUMBUS, O. MAP 8 Doors South of Goodale St. OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS AND IT WILL PAY YOU ROAD MAP OF FRANKLIN CO., OHIO To have your clothes made to order by 1929-30 EDITION REVISED TO DATE Containing all new streets, extensions, vacations and changes to date. Official Maps of the City of Columbus aud Franklin Co. showing Paved Streets and Improved Roads, Street Car Routes, Buildings and Institu­ tions, Manufacturing Industries and a fund of General Information about the City of 741 North High Street, Columbus, O. Columbus A GOOD TAILOR PUBLISHED BY SINCE 1900 D. F. DREHER & COMPANY Main Office, Toledo, Ohio WE CLEAN, PRESS, ALTER COLUMBUS, INDIANAPOLIS, MEMPHIS, LITTLE ROCK Delivery Service — Call ADams 5353 For Sale at Book Stores, News Dealers and Stationers COPYRIGHT 1928, by D. FRANK DREHER CONTENTS COLUMBUS PAGES Apartment Houses, Courts and Flats 112 - 113 A Great City in a Great State Banks, National and State 115 Native population of Columbus in excess of 90 per cent. Buildings, Halls, Etc., Public 113 to 115 A thriving community of home owners. An unequalled civic center development plan, partly completed. Building and Loan Associations 115 A great and convenient Convention city—"The Short-Haul City." Bus Lines 141 Has one of the five tallest buildings in America. Car Routes, City 8 to 29 Twenty-sixth city of the United States. Eastern Standard Time. Eighteen Divisions of seven trunk-line railroads radiate in all Cemeteries 118 directions from the city. Seven electric railways. Street railway Churches H6 to 118 system of 147 miles. City, County, State and Federal Offices 119 to 121 Because of its splendid location and exceptional transportation facil­ ities, it is a strategic location for the distribution of goods, a fact Classified Directory, Advertisers 142 - 143 that it has demonstrated in the rapidity of its growth as a whole­ Clubs and Associations, Leading 121 to 123 sale market. There are 164 passenger trains operating in and out of Columbus—Preface 4 this city daily, while there are 500 steam line merchandise cars handled daily. Convents, Catholic 140 Total of 706 manufacturing establishments, with annual wage and Dreher's Simplex Street and Housenumber salary payments of $42,864,000. Guide System of Columbus 7 to 111 Public Parks and playgrounds of more than 1,102 acres; 451 miles of paved streets; 521 miles of sewers. Explanation of Simplex Guide System 7 Twenty-one Mile Riverfront Drive along city owned park land. Express, Radio, Telegraph and Telephone Co.'s— 118 Theatres, 7; motion picture houses, 44; hotels, 60; hospitals, 9; Hospitals and Institutions 124 auditoriums and convention halls, 6. Hotels of Columbus 124 - 125 Churches, 262, with an estimated membership of 112,000; seven public libraries, with more than 600,000 volumes. Housenumber System of Columbus 7 Thirteen clearing house banks, with assets of approximately Jobbers of Columbus 125 to 128 $151,308,000; 29 building and loan associations, with assets of approxi­ Libraries 137 mately $130,000,000. Seven large state institutions, including the Capitol and Ohio State Manufacturing Industries 129 to 136 University. Map of Columbus, Mile Square Index, Paved Ohio State University, representing an investment of over Street and Housenumber Inside of back cover $15,000,000, affords one of the most attractive places in the city. It is the fourth largest of its kind in the country and touches either Map of Down-Town District 6 directly or indirectly the lives of all the people in the state. It Map of Franklin County, Road 72 - 73 comprises 11 colleges and 73 departments and has an annual enroll­ ment of nearly 12,000. The first stadium built in the middlewest is Newspapers, Daily H8 located on the Ohio State University campus. Ohio's Stadium is a Owl Car Routes and Schedules 8 to 29 concrete structure in the shape of a horseshoe and will accommodate Parks, Golf Courses and Public Grounds 137 in the stress of a big football game as many as 100,000 persons. Its cost was a million and a quarter dollars, financed largely through Population 123 contributions of alumni and friends of the university. Postoffice, U. S., and Stations 140 Columbus is the center of a wealthy and fertile farming territory. Railroads, Steam 141 More than 90 per cent of the ground area of Franklin County, of Railways, Electric *41 which Columbus is the seat, is in farms which produce in excess of $5,000,000 products annually. Schools and Colleges 138 - 139 Columbus is practically the center of all manufacturing in the Street and Housenumber Guide 30 to 111 United States. _ Everything that is made can be made here. The Theaters 140 city's geographical location is such that raw materials for any kind of manufacturing are accessible. Columbus products are shipped all over the world. ARWEVIATIONS The Columbus Chamber of Commerce. 30 E. Broad street, invitei al—alley GV Hts—Grand View rd—road and welcomes you to this modern American city. av—avenue L—'eft RR—railroad bldg—building Heights Ry—electric railway blk—block mfg—manufacturing 3 or s—south NOTICE:—The Street Guide and Map of Columbus herein pub­ bvd—boulevard VI Ci*—Marble Cliff se—southeast lished have been compiled from official records, and is arranged in byd—beyond mi—mile sw—southwest— accordance with Dreher's Simplex Street and House-number Guide cont—continue N or n—north sq—square and Mile Square Index System for municipalities. cor—corner ne—northeast st—street The publisher of this book has complied with all the requirements ct—court nw—northwest ter—terrace of the_ U. S. Copyright Law under the act of March 4, 1909. The ded—dedicated nr—near tr—transfer penalties for violation of the copyright law include imprisonment dept—department No.—number two—township and fine. Any reproduction of this work (in whole or part) can be dr—drive opp—opposite Up Arl—Upper identified by certain private characterizations. Any infringement of E or e—east pk—pike Arlington this work, in any form, will be prosecuted to the full extent of exc—except pi—^lace W or w—welt the law. fr—from R—right wk—walk Map of Down-Town District of Columbus DREHER'S SIMPLEX J, STREET AND HOUSE NUMBER GUIDE SYSTEM w. CH£sr/vv OF COLUMBUS EXPLANATION DARK-FACED TYPE IN STREET GUIDE at Streets are arranged alphabetically on pages 30 to 111. An official -ty - description of each street is given and finally a reference as to dis­ ' ID m tance and direction from some main thorolare for drivers' or auto- mobilists' use. ][ LIGHT-FACED TYPE IN STREET GUIDE w. The numbering of streets is given in left-hand column from the beginning to the end of said street. This number column is so arranged that the street car service for each house number can be ascertained by placing the house number wanted on the proper num­ " " TUv£ZltXf ber line and then reading that line across the page, in which you will find the car or cars to be taken, where to get off the car, and the direction or number of streets or squares to walk from the car line. NOTE.—"To same No. on (car line street) ," is an uni­ vS-7T versal phrase used in case of parallel streets with the car line; mean­ ing that one should get off the car at the cross street, the inter­ secting number of which is nearest to the number wanted on the parallel street. To find name of this cross street, turn to said car line in Street Car Routes and look in left-hand number column for aoft nearest parallel number. Cf^fAC ^S77 CD STREET CAR ROUTES of all city car lines will be found on pages 8 to 29. K~II ii i The housenumbering at each intersection is shown, the numbering of the car line street being given in left-hand number column and the numbering of the cross streets is given in right-hand number column. The house numbers given in these columns are the numbers legally allowed at each intersection before crossing (whether assigned or not), and are given on right side of car line unless cross street be­ *?/cr/v gins on the left side.