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Friday,
April 4
11 a.m.
– 5 p.m.
Registration
at the Columbus Main Library
3000 Macon Road
The Columbus
Public Library, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, has
quickly become a civic icon and cultural anchor in
Midtown Columbus.
1
p.m. – 4 p.m.
Midtown
Ramble
Friday's Ramble
will include The Columbus Museum and Olmsted Garden,
Wynnton Arts Academy Library, the Butt-Banks House,
Hillcrest, the Illges-Norman House, the Carson
McCullers House, and Midtown 21st Condominiums.
The Columbus
Museum and Gardens, 1251 Wynnton Road
The Museum is particularly known for its
concentration on American art and the history of the
region.
Wynnton Arts Academy Library, 2303 Wynnton
Road
The original building, located in the center of
the complex, was built in 1843 and is still in use
today as a museum and art gallery.
Butt-Banks Home, 1236 Wildwood Avenue
This beautiful house was built circa 1840 by Moses
Butt and his wife Priscilla Banks Butt, sister of
John Banks, builder of the Cedars.
Illges – Norman Home, 2021 Brookside Drive
Built in 1934, this stone Tudor Revival house was
designed by Atlanta-based architect James Mitchell
and features rubble walls.
Hillcrest,1652 Carter Avenue,
Built in 1890 by successful Columbus businessman
John Francis Flournoy for his second wife Mary
Reynolds Flournoy, this elaborate Queen Anne style
house with Eastlake details was designed by L.E.
Thornton.
Smith-McCullers House Museum, 1519 Stark
Avenue
Childhood home of Carson McCullers. Most famous for
novels such as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
and The Member of the Wedding, McCullers was
also a playwright and a short story writer.
6
p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Cocktails, Dinner & Dessert
Start the evening
with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at Dinglewood, an
Italianate-style house designed for Colonel Joel
Early Hurt by Columbus architects and builders
Barringer and Morton in 1858. Next enjoy
dinner at the beautiful Greek Revival style
Gordonido, which translates from Spanish into
Gordon’s nest. End the night with dessert at the
Wynn House, a grand Greek Revival style house.
Saturday, April 5
8:30 a.m. –
12:00 p.m.
Check-in and Registration
RiverMill Event Center
3715 First Avenue
9
a.m. – 12 p.m.
Annual Meeting & Preservation
Awards Ceremony
RiverMill Event Center, 3715
First Avenue
12 noon
Lunch & Learn
RiverMill Event
Center, 3715 First Avenue
Enjoy lunch at the former home of
Bibb Manufacturing Company, a historic cotton mill.
Built in 1900, this building grew by 1920 to a
breath-taking size of six stories high, covering an
area 128 feet wide and 1,010 feet long, reputedly
the world’s largest cotton mill under one roof. In
1999, Buck Investment Company purchased the mill and
after a series of renovations created the RiverMill
Event Centre.
1:00
– 5:00 p.m.
Uptown Ramble
Saturday’s Ramble will include
the Eagle/Phenix Condos, W.C. Bradley Co. Museum,
Springer Opera House, CSU River Park Campus, Port
Columbus, and the Ma Rainey House.
6 p.m.
35th
Anniversary Reception and Dinner
Columbus Convention & Trade Center, 801 Front
Avenue
Celebrate the Trust’s 35 years at
the former Columbus Iron Works, established in 1853.
Sunday, April 6
9:00 a.m. -
11:00 a.m.
Brunch in
Historic Linwood Cemetery
721 Linwood Boulevard
The weekend will conclude with a
Sunday brunch at the historic Linwood Cemetery. |
