place

Franklin Park Medical Center

1962 establishments in OhioColumbus, Ohio building and structure stubsColumbus metropolitan area, Ohio Registered Historic Place stubsCommercial buildings completed in 1962Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Endangered buildings in Columbus, OhioModernist architecture in OhioNational Register of Historic Places in Columbus, OhioWoodland Park (Columbus, Ohio)
Franklin Mark Medical Center entrance Columbus Ohio
Franklin Mark Medical Center entrance Columbus Ohio

Franklin Park Medical Center is a historic building in Woodland Park, Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1962 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is significant for its Modernist architecture, one of few remaining commercial buildings in the style in Columbus, and has influences from Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School.The building is also significant for its African American community history. The practice was founded by five doctors who were experiencing discrimination and segregation. Their combined efforts at Franklin Park Medical Center allowed them to be successful. The medical center operated until 2009. Columbus Landmarks supported an effort to nominate it to the National Register and restore it in 2015, led by a son of one of the five founding doctors.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Franklin Park Medical Center (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Franklin Park Medical Center
Monypenny Avenue, Columbus

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Franklin Park Medical CenterContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 39.968671 ° E -82.952285 °
placeShow on map

Address

Monypenny Avenue
43203 Columbus
Ohio, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Franklin Mark Medical Center entrance Columbus Ohio
Franklin Mark Medical Center entrance Columbus Ohio
Share experience

Nearby Places

Ohio's 3rd congressional district

Ohio's 3rd congressional district is located entirely in Franklin County and includes most of the city of Columbus. The current district lines were drawn in 2022, following the redistricting based on the 2020 census. It is currently represented by Democrat Joyce Beatty. It was one of several districts challenged in a 2018 lawsuit seeking to overturn Ohio's congressional map due to alleged unconstitutional gerrymandering. According to the lawsuit, the 3rd was "shaped like a snowflake" that was designed to "fracture" Columbus. The plaintiffs focused on the 3rd in part because the 2013-2023 version of the district was barely contiguous. In some portions, it was almost, but not quite, split in two by the neighboring 12th and 15th districts which split the rest of Columbus between them. The 2013-2023 map, drawn in private by Republican lawmakers in a Columbus hotel room, drew most of the heavily Democratic portions of Columbus into the 3rd, with much of the rest of Columbus split into the more Republican 12th and 15th districts. An alternative plan was to split Columbus between four districts, creating 13 safe Republican seats. In May 2019, the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati deemed the map unconstitutional, as intentionally drawn to keep Republicans in power and disenfranchise Democratic voters. The U.S. Supreme Court discarded the district court ruling in October 2019.In 2018, Ohio voters approved a ballot measure known as Issue 1, which grants the minority party oversight on redistricting, requiring 50 percent minority party approval for district maps. The process will only take place after the 2020 census and presidential election.For most of the time from 1887 to 2003, the 3rd was a Dayton-based district; much of that territory is now the 10th district.