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Downtown Columbus, Ohio

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Aerial view of Columbus, Ohio, September 2015
Aerial view of Columbus, Ohio, September 2015

Downtown Columbus is the central business district of Columbus, Ohio. Downtown is centered on the intersection of Broad and High Streets, and encompasses all of the area inside the Inner Belt. Downtown is home to most of the tallest buildings in Columbus. The state capitol, the Ohio Statehouse, is located in the center of downtown on Capitol Square. Downtown is also home to Columbus State Community College, Franklin University, Columbus College of Art and Design, Grant Medical Center, Capital University Law School, as well as the Main Library of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, the pioneering Main Street Bridge, and many parks. Downtown has many neighborhoods or districts, but it can be separated into three main areas: the Discovery District, the High Street Corridor, and the Riverfront. Downtown also includes the Arena District, Capitol Square, and the Columbus Civic Center. The Short North, Italian Village, and Victorian Village are directly north of downtown. Olde Towne East and King-Lincoln Bronzeville are directly east, while the Brewery District and German Village are directly south of Downtown. Franklinton is to the west of downtown. Almost 90,000 people are employed downtown, and more than 33,000 students attend school at one of the many institutions of higher education located there. As of 2022, Downtown is home to about 11,200 residents.

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Downtown Columbus, Ohio
East Spring Street, Columbus

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N 39.966694444444 ° E -83 °
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East Spring Street 28
43215 Columbus
Ohio, United States
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OhioLINK

The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) is a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Serving more than 800,000 students, faculty, and staff at 88 institutions with 117 libraries, OhioLINK's membership includes 16 public universities, 23 community/technical colleges, 48 private colleges and the State Library of Ohio. OhioLINK serves faculty, students, staff and other researchers via campus-based integrated library systems, the OhioLINK central site, and Internet resources.OhioLINK's mission is to create a competitive advantage for Ohio's higher education community by cooperatively and cost-effectively acquiring, providing access to, and preserving an expanding array of print and digital scholarly resources in order to advance teaching, learning, research, and the growth of Ohio's knowledge-based economy.OhioLINK offers these main digital collections and services, some of which are open access: The Central Catalog, a union catalog of the combined member library collections A collection of research databases The EJC or Electronic Journal Center, a multi-publisher article database The Digital Resource Commons The EBC or Electronic Book Center, a multi-publisher book collection The Finding Aid Repository (Open Access) The Digital Music Center The ETD or Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (Open Access). eTutoring, a collaborative online tutoring platform for participating member institutions The OhioLINK Open Course Content Library for Open Educational Resources (Open Access) Through a peer-to-peer print sharing network with participating Ohio public libraries in the SearchOhio Network, OhioLINK students, faculty and staff can request public library materials and vice versa. Digital preservation of locally ingested and created items such as electronic theses and dissertations using the Rosetta product from Ex Libris. OhioLINK also supports the member libraries which administer the Regional Book Depository program. These five high-density remote storage facilities are each administered by a member library and the materials housed there circulate through the OhioLINK print lending program.

Chittenden Hotel
Chittenden Hotel

The Chittenden Hotel was a hotel building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The hotel, located at Spring and High streets, was in three succeeding buildings. The first was built in 1889; the second in 1892; and the third in 1895.The Chittenden was created by Columbus businessman Henry Treat Chittenden, known for owning the Columbus Railway Company, in the horsecar and streetcar business. He was also involved in real estate and the arts, and was educated in and practiced law. Chittenden had seen William Neil, a stagecoach entrepreneur, make a second fortune with his Neil House hotel, inspiring Chittenden to follow suit. In 1873, he purchased the five-story Parker Building, an office building with retail space. In the late 1880s, he converted it into the first Chittenden hotel, adding two floors among other extensive renovations. It opened in 1889. The building was gutted in a large fire in 1890. The next building was constructed in 1892 in a more lavish style. Chittenden built theaters around it – the Henrietta on Spring St. and the Park on High St.; he also built a massive auditorium nearby.A block-wide fire demolished the second hotel on November 25, 1893, spreading from the unfinished auditorium to the hotel and Henrietta Theater. The city block had damage of about $300,000; Chittenden had only insured the hotel for $50,000. Undeterred by the fires, Henry Chittenden built his third hotel in 1895, using solid materials including stone, steel, concrete, and brick. The eight story building was held under the Chittenden family's ownership, past his death in 1909, until it was sold in the early 1950s. Just after 1960, the hotel's Moorish towers and eaves were removed to lower maintenance costs. The third hotel was the longest-lasting. It closed on March 15, 1972 and was demolished in February 1973.The high-rise William Green Building stands at the site of the hotel.