Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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
“The Westerville High School-Vine Street School is a historic school in Westerville, Ohio. It was built in 1896 by the Columbus architecture firm of Yost and Packard.”
Wikipedia article Westerville High School-Vine Street School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
National Register reference number.75001405- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 3,074 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 3,074 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Westerville High School-Vine Street School between 1804 and
1975: 2,995 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Penniman, A. P. Morgan 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Westerville, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood.
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.
Hail up to the size of golf balls affected the north side of the Columbus metro area and southern Delaware county. Hail was extensive from Dublin, through Worthington and Powell, to Westerville. Trees and shrubs were stripped of their foliage and cars and homes sustained significant hail damage. The hail covered the ground in some locations up to six inches deep in Worthington in northern Franklin county and near the Polaris Mall in southern Delaware county.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
a high foundation. Rectangular in plan, the foundation of gray cut stone The bay terminates with a steeply pitched second story brick section which is flanked by brick turrets which windows are tied into stone belt courses. Throughout the building the mullions in the upper 1/2 story. These bays terminate with modified with metal spires. The second story of the entrance bay has two arched is slightly projecting and is comprised of a wide stone arched opening The exterior of the building is unaltered today.The original bell remains windows between the turrets. - Pre-Columbian| - 20th Century ] Political - Religion/Phi- STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
the site of a previous schoolbuilding (1867-1895), Westerville The building, with its large rooms, remains very flexible and VI am Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". MAR 1 8 1975 %. Conservation Engineering losophy Aboriginal Commerce Architecture Communications SIGNIFICANCE Military Theater Science Transportation Music Prehistoric itarian Literature Agriculture Landscape Industry RECEIVED Invention Urban Planning Social/Human- This fine example of Romanesque revival architecture was known for Sculpture functional for today's teaching needs.The Board of Education High School was dedicated with great ceremony on March 19,1896. Westerville plans to use the building at least through this decade. This same bell was for years mysteriously rung on New Year's Eve!
The familiar sound of the school=bell is still rung each morning. Railway to take guests from Columbus to Westerville. has been used for 107 years for public education in Westerville. Education This fine structure has seemedto fulfill its dedication promise- Governor Asa S.Bushnell anda host of other Ohio notables were on Other (Specify) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) 'SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1896; addition 1904 years as "the most pretentious structure in Westerville." The location Art REEISTER NATIONAL
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001405, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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