1533-1537 Mt. Vernon Avenue, | Near East Side | Columbus, Ohio | Live-Sketching A tad bit rushed sketch, Pen and ink, and watercolours on Moleskine Large Watercolour Sketchbook This is one of the earliest buildings in the area, which is said to have been in place by 1893-early 1900's. The lot and the buildings were subdivided into separate spaces and over the years, it came to house multiple businesses and families. It originally served as a boarding house for women, as offices for Accurate Measure Oil Co. in 1920's, as a barbershop (1929-1951) and a drug store(1909-1923), a laundromat from 1962-1981, it was home to Lucy's Restaurant (between 1971 and 1973) and was the art gallery space of OSU's Art Professor Pheoris West between 1986-1988. The building has been vacant ever since. Architecturally, the building seems to have a mix of styles, starting with a rusticated Romanesque archway over the Mt. Vernon-facing entrance. The rest of the building is consistent with the Georgian style of architecture, with arched dentils around upper windows, beneath a prominent parapet adorned with an ornate cornice. The storefronts on the street level have been modified over the years and given its rich history and the variety of businesses it's housed, it's a great space to restore and adaptively reuse. (P.S: I gathered this information online from a variety of sources and tried to put them all together in a concise manner. Please do let me know if anything seems off or wrong and I'd gladly change it. I enjoy learning about what these spaces have been and have the potential to do!) #livesketching #neareastside (at King-Lincoln Bronzeville)