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Photograph of Drexel Theatre
Photograph by Ben Larrimer, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Drexel Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Drexel Theater, also known as Drexel Theatre, is a historic Art Deco and Art Moderne theater located in Bexley, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2015.”

Wikipedia article Drexel Theater, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2254 E. Main St., Bexley, 43209
  • When was it listed? 2015-06-08
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bexley city
  • Architectural style. Moderne architecture, Art Deco architecture
  • National Register reference number. 15000322 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Drexel Theater between 2007 and 2007, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 9,801 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 9,801 specimens collected within 10 miles of Drexel Theater between 1814 and 1975: 7,838 Animalia, 1,266 Fungi, 549 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De ToniCintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni1900Tyler, F.J.; O. E. JenningsColumbus
Specimen of Sorghum bicolor (L.) MoenchSorghum bicolor (L.) Moench1900Jennings, O.E.Columbus, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Hirundo Linnaeus, not of this specimenHirundo Linnaeus, 17581814not recordedColumbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Callimome strobiloides, not of this specimenCallimome strobiloides Huber, 19271821C. HuberColumbus
A photograph of the species Solidago riddellii, not of this specimenSolidago riddellii Frank1832W. A. KellermanA few miles N of Columbus.
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1834AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1837W. S. SullivantNear Columbus
A photograph of the species Carex bullata, not of this specimenCarex bullata Willd.1837AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1837AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Carex granularis, not of this specimenCarex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.1837AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471897not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Clevenger, J. F.Columbus

All 9,801 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Drexel Theater: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Asarco Columbus SmelterZinc, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Columbus No. 210 Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bexley, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Flash FloodBexley$80,000Thunderstorms that produced locally five to seven inches of rain inundated the east side of Columbus during the evening. Street flooding occurred from Bexley north to Gahanna with numerous road closures. Several homes in Bexley neighborhoods had flooded basements, with high water forcing 25 families out of their homes. Seventeen structures sustained major damage from flooding.
June 2005HailBexley$10,000Several trees and large limbs were also knocked down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBexley$4,000Numerous trees were downed near State Route 16 and Hampton Road.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBexley$3,000Large limbs were knocked down across the southeast side of Columbus. There were also a few trees blown down in the western suburbs.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBexley$2,000Several large tree branches fell onto power lines in the North Remington Road area.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindBexley$1,000Several large tree limbs were knocked down along and near East Broad Street in Bexley.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Bexley$1,000A tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of State Route 104 and US Route 33.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBexley$500Numerous large tree limbs were downed in the Bexley and Whitehall areas.
July 2009HailBexley-Hail from 0.75 to 0.88 inches fell near Bexley.
March 2024HailBexley-no account filed
March 2012HailBexley-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBexley-no account filed
April 2003HailBexley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Huntington, Franz, House0.5 miles1980
Miller, Frederick A., House-Broad Gables0.8 miles1985
Franklin Park Conservatory1.0 miles1974
Sessions Village1.0 miles1975
Edna, The1.2 miles2017
Old Governor's Mansion1.2 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000322 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 295 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.