A nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate designed more than a century ago by one of Columbus' most legendary architects has hit the market.
Spanning over 9,200 square feet on Columbus' Near East Side, the home at 1349 E. Broad St. is listed for $1.3 million. Built in 1900, the property was designed by prolific architect Frank Packard, who created roughly 3,400 buildings between the late 1880s and 1920s. More than 100 of those structures are in central Ohio, many of them clustered along Broad Street.
But according to Realtor Wayne Woods with Ology Realty, some of that corridor's most historic properties have since been torn down.
"Along Broad Street, a lot of those more historic, significant houses – some of them still exist today, but a lot of them were
demoed to make way for commercial space in the 60s and 70s," he said. "So given the significance of this house and the architect that designed it and everything, it's pretty cool that it still stands there today."
Woods characterized 1349 E. Broad St. as a Tudor-style estate, marked on the outside by its steeply pitched roof and gables, board and batten siding and dentil moldings. The interior of the home is no different, he added. Much of the structure's original features, including its trim and molding, tigerwood doors, coffered ceilings and bifurcated staircase, have been preserved over the years.
"It just really makes you feel grand when you're in there," Woods said, "like you're taking a step back in time and you could almost put yourself in the shoes of the people that lived there and the parties and things that were hosted."
The estate's current owner of a few years never lived in the home, but rather bought the property as an investment opportunity, Woods said. The previous owners, on the other hand, not only lived in the home but also ran their business out of it, which is why so many of the rooms are photographed in the listing as office-like spaces.
One of the property's stand-out features is its detached, two-story carriage house, which also includes a three-car garage. The apartment is currently unfinished but could be converted into living space, Woods added.
Inside the home, he said, there's also a library, parlor, grand stairwell and a third-story "entertainment space," off of which sit four bedrooms and a full bathroom.
Reporter Emma Wozniak can be reached at ewozniak@dispatch.com or @emma_wozniak_ on X.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Historic 9-bedroom Tudor estate by Frank Packard on market for $1.3M
