Upper Arlington Home Sales in 1923
The Columbus Dispatch ran this ad on p. 21 on January 31, 1923:
How many similarly styled Dutch Colonial homes can you find south of Lane Avenue? This was obviously a very popular architectural style, making it difficult to pinpoint the address of this home today. The ad, however, is a glimpse into the features and price of a typical Upper Arlington home for sale in 1923.
See this Columbus Dispatch ad from February 23, 1923 on page 62 in an effort to convince people to move to this not yet ten-year-old community:
Home sales had begun in 1914, Upper Arlington officially became a village in 1918, and the population was steadily increasing. The Community News, the local newspaper of the time, reported on the high growth expectations of Upper Arlington in this May 20, 1923 article appearing on pages 1 and 4:
Notes:
The “restrictions” refer to setbacks from the street, allotments for parks, primarily residential buildings, and so on. A 1914 marketing brochure further illuminates these concepts. Deed restrictions began to appear in 1926 restricting who could purchase a home; please see our research here for more information.
Scioto Country Club, which opened in 1916, is not within UA’s boundaries in 1923; that does not happen until an annexation in 1968.
The school referred to in the article is today’s Jones Middle School. That school opened its doors in 1924.
Below, find the ad for Guilford Place as mentioned in the article above. (The Community News, May 13, 1923, p. 4). This area was annexed into Upper Arlington in June of 1923.
