109–111 South High Street
building in Columbus, Ohio
109–111 South High Street is a commercial building on South High Street in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The building was built in a commercial district that has housed numerous businesses. The current building was constructed c. 1938 for a Woolworth's five-and-dime store, which operated until 1997. After six years of vacancy, the building housed a CVS pharmacy, from 2003 to 2022.
Attributes
As originally planned, the building was to be a modern, air-conditioned building measuring 62.5 feet wide and 187.5 feet deep. It would have three stories, in addition to a basement and sub-basement, with the upper basement and two floors above set to be retail space. Its exterior was to be of brick, steel, and terracotta with a slab roof and terracotta front. The interior would have a bakery, cafeteria, shelf space, stoker boilers, two freight elevators, and three dumbwaiters.
History
In fall 1812, as the city was being organized, John Collett built a two-story brick tavern at this site.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121610371. Authority coordinates are 39.960, -83.001. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1997, 2003 and 2022.
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