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Columbus, OH

Benjamin Smith House

Standing · Recorded year (source inventory): 1860

Architect: Nathan Kelley

Benjamin Smith House · Columbus, OH

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Benjamin Smith House · Columbus, OH

Columbus, OH

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Recorded year (source inventory)
1860
Status
Standing
Reported style
Second Empire style, Italianate architecture
Reported architect
Nathan Kelley
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  1. 1860

    Recorded year (source inventory)

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The recorded story

The Benjamin Smith House is a historic building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The house was built c. 1860 for Benjamin E. Smith, a wealthy financier. Smith lived in the house until 1883, when he moved to New York City. Rented by Ohio as a governor's mansion, it housed Ohio governors George Hoadly and Joseph Foraker. In 1886, the Columbus Club, a private club in the city, purchased the house and grounds, and are still housed there today. The house was designed by Nathan B. Kelley, also one of the principal architects of the Ohio Statehouse.

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Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article for contributors and any additional terms. Wikidata facts are linked separately.

The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article.

Wikipedia building/site coordinate: 39.96240, -82.99579

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