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The Charles S. Barrett Building is a historic building in the
Merion Village Columbus, the state capital and Ohio's largest city, has numerous neighborhoods within its city limits. Neighborhood names and boundaries are not officially defined. They may vary or change from time to time due to demographic and economic varia ...
neighborhood of
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. It was listed on the
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in 2006 and the
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in 2015. The building was completed in 1900 as the home of the city's South High School, part of the
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. It has since been converted into apartments, rented out as The Barrett. The four-story Italianate school building was designed by
David Riebel David Riebel (August 7, 1855 – July 29, 1935) was a German-American architect in Columbus, Ohio. He was the head architect for the Columbus City Schools, Columbus public school district from 1893 to 1922. In 1915, ''The Ohio Architect, Engineer ...
, as his second school building commission in the neighborhood, after
Southwood Elementary School Southwood Elementary School is a public elementary school in Columbus, Ohio, part of Columbus City Schools. The school building, located in the city's Merion Village neighborhood, was completed in 1894 and was designed by David Riebel. It was a ...
. The South High School building was modeled after the now-demolished East High School at 1390 Franklin Avenue, designed by Riebel about a year earlier. It was redeveloped into apartments in the mid-2010s. A nonprofit housing agency worked with a local developer to build housing around the school building, with a total of 108 apartments and 22 single-family homes. The school building itself was converted into 52 apartments, and its 1960s addition was demolished.


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Apartment website
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