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style. The exterior predominantly has walls of red brick, a hipped slate roof with a low pitch, and carved stone details throughout. It is a rigidly symmetrical building with a feeling of solidity and bulk. The exterior wall spaces are only lightly taken up by doors and windows; towers, turrets, and
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The Fair Avenue School was built at a time of significant population growth in Columbus. Following the American Civil War, an influx of new residents led the school board to construct new schools nearly every year. The Fair Avenue School was built from 1889 to 1890; contracts were let in 1889 and
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The main block of the building is rectangular, with two stories topped by a hipped roof. The roof is intersected by projecting gable-roofed wall dormers, each of which has triple rectangular windows and heavy stone lintels and sills on the first and second floors. Round brick turrets flank these
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was chosen to design the building. His fee was $ 672, remarkably low even though the board was considering hiring a school architect in order to save costs. The building's commission reportedly caused the board to question its decision, leading them to hire
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The building's tall central tower is its main feature. At its base is the main entranceway, recessed and underneath a heavy stone arch. The arch rests on a rusticated stone base, with foliage details carved into a portion of it, alongside several stubby
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The building's exterior remains nearly unchanged in appearance since when it was constructed, though small wings or additions have been added at least seven times, including in 1900, 1957, and 1963.
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as the first school architect. The building cost $ 32,692. The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1942 with a reunion event for alumni.
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In 2012, the vacant school building was put up for sale. It was purchased for $ 300,000 by the A+ Arts Academy, a charter school, in 2013.
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In 1967, a crude fire bomb was thrown into the school building, though it detonated without serious damage.
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Samuelson, Robert E.; et al. (Pasquale C. Grado, Judith L. Kitchen, Jeffrey T. Darbee) (1976).
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style in 1890, having been designed by prolific Columbus architect
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The building was designed by prolific Columbus-area architect
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architecture; it is considered a "prime late example" of the
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The Columbus Chapter of The American Institute of Architects
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arches typical of the Richardsonian style are abundant.
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U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

Columbus, Ohio
39°57′48″N 82°57′46″W / 39.963374°N 82.962913°W / 39.963374; -82.962913
Frank Packard
Richardsonian Romanesque
Columbus Near East Side District
ID78002063
Franklin Park
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Near East Side District
National Register of Historic Places
Richardsonian Romanesque
Frank Packard
Columbus Public School District

Frank Packard
David Riebel

Frank Packard
Joseph W. Yost
Yost & Packard
Romanesque Revival
Richardsonian Romanesque
corbels
colonnettes
National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio
Schools in Columbus, Ohio
"National Register Information System"

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