Ohio History Center

The Ohio History Center is a history museum in Columbus, Ohio. It is the primary museum for Ohio's history, operated by the Ohio History Connection.

Ohio History Center
Location800 E. 17th Avenue,
Columbus, Ohio
Coordinates40.004858°N 82.987418°W / 40.004858; -82.987418
TypeHistory
AccreditationAmerican Alliance of Museums
Key peopleBurt Logan (Executive Director and CEO), Thomas V. Chema (President)
Nearest parkingOn site
Websitewww.ohiohistory.org/visit/ohio-history-center

Attributes and history
Reading room

The Ohio History Connection operates dozens of state historic sites across Ohio. Its headquarters is the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m²) Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, a Brutalist concrete structure.[1][2] Extensive exhibits cover Ohio's history from the Ice Age to the present. The Center includes state archives and library spaces, a gift shop, and administrative and educational facilities. The 1989 Smithsonian Guide to Historic America described the Center as "probably the finest museum in America devoted to pre-European history."

The society's first permanent home was in Sullivant Hall on the Ohio State University campus. The society operated a museum and library there. Later, the archives moved to the Old Governor's Mansion on Broad Street. In 1965, voters approved a bond for a new structure to be built. W. Byron Ireland designed a Brutalist building with post-tensioned concrete structures, allowing for a cantilevered design. The building remains mostly as built, including its exterior use of silo tiles made in Ohio.[3]

Curators

The Ohio History Connection has appointed a Curator of Archaeology to oversee the museum's archaeological collection since 1894:[4]

  • Warren K. Moorehead (1894–1897)
  • Clarence Loveberry (1897–1898)
  • Lucy Allen (1898)
  • William Corless Mills (1898–1921)
  • Henry C. Shetrone (1921–1928)
  • Emerson Greenman (1928–1935)
  • Richard G. Morgan (1936–1948)
  • Raymond S. Baby (1948–1979)
  • Martha Potter Otto (1974–2009)
  • Brad Lepper (2009–present)

References
  1. "An Ode to Brutal Architecture". Ohio Historical Society. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  2. Jeff Regenburger (7 June 2010). "The Ohio Historical Center: A Defense". OnSummit.blogspot.com.
  3. Darbee, Jeff (October 28, 2018). "City Quotient: Why Does the Ohio History Center Look So... Modern?". Columbus Monthly. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  4. Lepper, Brad (2014-10-03). "Lucy Allen – The Ohio History Connection's First Female Curator of Archaeology". Ohio History Connection Archaeology Blog. Ohio History Connection. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
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