Kilbourne Commercial Building

Basic details

Kilbourne Commercial Building is an image, with genre photograph.

Its dimensions are 2.06 in. x 2.94 in..

It was created sometime in 1900.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

The 1808 Kilbourne Commercial Building is located at 679-681 High Street, Worthington, Ohio. Constructed ca. 1808 south of James Kilbourne's 1804 brick home, it is believed to be the oldest commercial building in Ohio in continuous commercial use. The building housed Kilbourne's survey office, offices of the Western Intelligencer newspaper. Rooms on the second floor served as the Worthington Hotel. Later owners of the building included an undertaking and dentist, as depicted in this photograph.

Subjects

It features the person James Kilbourne.

It covers the topics buildings, business and Kilbourn Commercial Building.

It covers the city Worthington.

It features the address 681 High Street.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0120.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 98-G-92.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on January 22, 2002. It was last updated October 21, 2025.

Copyright

In Copyright

Kilbourne Commercial Building from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of Kilbourne Commercial Building. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.