Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1997. 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 Bank Block Building is a historic business and shopping center located in Grandview Heights, Ohio. Originally constructed in 1927, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1997.”
Wikipedia article Bank Block Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
National Register reference number.97000510- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Columbus city, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.
Only the older citizens know that the first Franklin County Infirmary was originally located northwest of the city, in what was once called Sellsville on the present King avenue, just west of the Olentangv bridge. The foundations were put in, when it was realized a mistake had been made, that the site was too close to the city, and that there was not enough land obtainable for the infirmary farm. The work was stopped and after almost endless wrangling, the infirmary was located southeast of the city, and the first site was sold. For a long time the people of the North Side felt they had been tricked by the change, and the loss of an institution which would enhance the value of their own holdings. But that feeling lias long since died out, and the location has become one of the city's most promising residence sections. Prior to building the present infirmary the county kept its paupers in "the poor-house" - an old stone structure of not more than a dozen rooms, on the Pennsylvania railroad, in Grandview; later in an old building, still standing on Mohawk street. The present Infirmary on the Lockbourne road was built in 1883-8-1, southeast of the city. It is a commodious building, delightfully situated, with 100 acres of farm land which is cultivated in part by the inmates themselves. In 1908 the County Commissioners erected on the grounds adjacent to the Infirmary building two frame structures called shacks for the care of sufferers from tuberculosis and, subsequently, when the need appeared, built near by a brick hospital for their care. The hospital, which is well equipped, was one of the first county hospitals in the State. Both the hospital and the shacks are maintained by county funds free to all who are unable to pay for the service.
At present the Congregational churches in Columbus are as follows: First, Rev. Irving Maurer; North, Rev. P. L. Curtiss ; Eastwood, Rev. D. F. Bent; Grandview Heights, Rev. O. C. Weist; Mayflower, Rev. Franklin L. Graff; Plymouth, Rev. W. A. Warren; South, Rev. A. M. Meikle; Washington avenue (Welsh), Rev. E. Floyd Roberts.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bank Block Building between
2011 and 2011, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 9,391 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bank Block Building between 1804 and
1975: 7,412 Animalia, 1,272 Fungi, 560 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 29 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Bank Block Building: 1 plant, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, 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.
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.
From the nomination file
8,363 words on record
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.
Statement of significance
Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property Community Planning & Development . X A Property is associated with events that have made _ Commerce a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. [X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance U D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
(Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years. Don Monroe Casto Developer, Columbus, Ohio Narrative Statement of Significance 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 97000510, 72 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.
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.
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