National Register of Historic Places
Hanford Village George Washington Carver Addition Historic District
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
The record
- Listed
- December 24, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 1918-1939, 2012-2030 Kent & 783-879 Lyman Sts., 822-1958 Clay Ct., 851-853 Bowman Ave., Hanford Park, Columbus
- County
- Franklin
- State
- Ohio
- Contributing resources
- 75 buildings, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 39.95179, -82.94530
- Reference number
- 13000980
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The story
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The Hanford Village George Washington Carver Addition Historic District is a historic district of houses, a church and a park in Columbus, Franklin County, listed in the National Register in 2013. Most of its houses were built from 1945 to 1947 in Colonial Revival, Cape Cod and vernacular styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criterion A, with national-level significance in community planning and development and in Black ethnic heritage. Its significance runs from 1945 to 1947, the years the Carver Addition's houses went up.
Physical character
Most houses are one and a half stories, wood framed, with concrete block, brick or wood-sided walls, six-over-six or six-over-one double-hung windows, and Colonial Revival door surrounds. Later changes added aluminum, vinyl or asbestos siding, plus front, side and rear additions and detached or recessed garages. Streets curve rather than form a grid, with long blocks and few entrances; Interstate 70's 1960s construction cut off part of the subdivision and destroyed 67 homes.
Historical context
In 1936 Hanford Village was redlined, and in 1944 the federal H-2 program made provisions for non-migrant African American housing; the Carver Addition's houses were built there from 1945 to 1947. In 1950 Ivan H. Gore donated parkland parcels to the Village of Hanford, and the park was developed for recreation that year. St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church, established in 1923, bought a lot in 1927 and built its present church in 1958.