Woodland Park is located only a short distance east from downtown Columbus. It is bounded by Broad Street (along Franklin Park) to Maryland Avenue (along I-671) on the north, Taylor Avenue (near OSU Hospital East) to the west and the Norfolk & Western Railroad tracks (near Nelson Road) to the east.Woodland Park was established at the turn of the Twentieth Century as one of Coumbus’ first planned, upscale suburban neighborhoods. Woodland Park was referred to as the “North Gateway to Franklin Park” and rapidly became home to many of the founding families of Columbus as well as entrepreneurs, business owners, industrialist, educators and artists. Numerous prominent citizens of Columbus, including nationally renowned artist, Emerson Burkhart, have called Woodland Park home.
Woodland Park is located only a short distance east from downtown Columbus. It is bounded by Broad Street (along Franklin Park) to Maryland Avenue (along I-671) on the north, Taylor Avenue (near OSU Hospital East) to the west and the Norfolk & Western Railroad tracks (near Nelson Road) to the east.
Woodland Park was established at the turn of the twentieth century as one of Columbus’ first planned, upscale suburban neighborhoods. Woodland Park was referred to as the “North Gateway to Franklin Park” and rapidly became home to many of the founding families of Columbus as well as entrepreneurs, business owners, industrialist, educators and artists. Numerous prominent citizens of Columbus, including nationally renowned artist, Emerson Burkhart, have called Woodland Park home.
The neighborhood is home to an eclectic mixture of exquisite architecture including Colonial, Federal, Arts and Crafts, Victorian, Tudor, Mission, Dutch Colonial, Colonial Review, Greek Revival, Georgian Colonial, French Eclectic, Amerian Foursquare and Cape Cod. The neighborhood is composed of homes, town-homes and apartments ranging in size from massive mansions to bungalows and from penthouses to studio apartments. This diverse mixture of homes makes Woodland Park a comfortable, affordable and attractive neighborhood to live in.