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    German Village Stories Behind the Bricks
    German Village Stories Behind the Bricks
    German Village Stories Behind the Bricks
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    German Village Stories Behind the Bricks

    By John M. Clark

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    Explore the rich history and mysteries of this Preserve America Community through the eyes of the people who live there!


    German Village's iconic homes, bustling businesses and other beloved sites harbor fascinating stories.

    Did you know that German Village's Recreation Park, now gone, is thought to have had the first baseball concession stand? Or that the four-story Schwartz Castle was the site of two murders? Or that the popular restaurant Engine House No. 5 closed its doors after the mysterious disappearance of its owners in the Bermuda Triangle?

    Longtime resident and tour guide John M. Clark goes behind the bricks of more than seventy German Village properties to explore the places and people who made the Old South End into a Columbus treasure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateJun 22, 2015
    ISBN9781625855732
    German Village Stories Behind the Bricks
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    John M. Clark

    John M. Clark is a copywriter and video producer and has lived in German Village for over two decades. He was in retail advertising in TV and radio for seventeen years and a news anchor, reporter and producer for thirteen years prior to that. John is a former board member and current member of the German Village Society. He promotes German Village through tours of the historic district and history-related videos shot for the society. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Kentucky University.

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      PART I

      NORTHWEST GERMAN VILLAGE

      121 EAST BECK STREET

      The Quaintest Corner?

      Popular Columbus newspaper columnist Bill Arter suggested in 1965 that the corner of East Beck and Lazelle Streets might be the quaintest corner in all of German Village. The tiny brick home at 121 East Beck Street is a big reason why. Over the years, residents have expressed the belief that the original two-story structure was once used as a broom factory. While it is true that such small cottage industries could be found all over Columbus’s largely ethnic South Side in the nineteenth century, there’s no proof to be found concerning the early use of this property other than as a dwelling. In fact, longtime neighborhood resident Dorothy Fischer, herself a German Village pioneer, once remarked that others had referred to it as a former bicycle factory.

      What is known is that preservationist Frank Fetch and his wife, Elnora, were so struck by the little building’s potential that they bought it in June 1962, barely two years after the formation of the German Village Society, whose primary purpose was to foster and encourage restoration in the neighborhood. The Fetches built a small addition to house a new living room, put in a complete kitchen and bath and added the brick and wrought-iron fence along the northern and eastern property lines. The house was used as rental property for the next thirteen years, when the Fetches decided to sell it. Even with the addition, the home contains just 710 square feet, making it one of the most compact properties in the village.

      The broom factory at 121 East Beck Street was once also called the Paw Paw Palace, for the large pawpaw tree that stood next to it. The German Village Society.

      129 EAST BECK STREET

      The Triangle Lot

      As could be said for many of the properties in German Village, 129 East Beck Street is an unusual site with an interesting history. But if these old houses could argue among themselves about which property is the most unusual, this one would have a

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