Hotel Central (Worthington Inn) ca. 1900

The building depicted here with an unidentified group of people is presently the Worthington Inn, located at 649 High Street, Worthington, Ohio. At the time of this photograph it was known as the Hotel Central. The oldest portion of the Worthington Inn was built as a home for the family of Rensselaer W. Cowles, a Worthington merchant, civic leader and James Kilbourn’s son-in-law in 1835. The Inn has had significant additions which reflect the changing architectural tastes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Its Victorian decor reflects its status as Worthington’s only remaining nineteenth-century inn.

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