Yost & Packard was an architectural firm based in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The firm included partners Joseph W. Yost and Frank Packard. It was founded in 1892 and continued until Yost moved to New York City in 1899, after which Packard took up practice in his own name.
The firm was known for many public buildings, and the prolific use of masonry, especially Berea sandstone, along with tile roofs with flared eaves, polygonal turrets, and intricate ornamentation. Their works resemble elements of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture blended with the creative Victorian works of Frank Furness.Barbara Powers, "Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Station", [Columbus, Ohio], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/OH-01-049-0046. Last accessed: December 4, 2022.
Selected works
Notable works by Yost & Packard include:
In Columbus Historical nameImageAddressDate completedStatusNotesArmory and Gymnasium60 N. Oval Drive1898DemolishedBiological Building101 S. Oval Drive1898DemolishedBoiler and Power Houses1961 Bohannan Drive1892, 1896DemolishedAlso known as the Brown Hall AnnexBotanical Building181 S. Oval Drive1892DemolishedBroad Street M.E. Church501 E. Broad Street1885In useNational Register and Columbus Register-listedChemical Laboratory154 N. Oval Drive1891DemolishedAlso known as Chemistry Building No. 2. Children's Hospital Fair & Miller Avenues 1893 Demolished Original location of the modern-day Nationwide Children's HospitalColumbus AuditoriumW. Goodale Street1897DemolishedExtensively remodeled existing buildingColumbus Central St. Ry. Office Building842 Cleveland Avenue1890sVacantColumbus Central St. Ry. Power HouseCleveland & Reynolds Avenues1894DemolishedEastwood Congregational1080 E. Broad Street 1892In useNow the Pilgrim Missionary Baptist ChurchThe Great Southern Hotel and The Great Southern Opera (advisory)310 S. High Street 1896In useNational Register and Columbus Register-listedThe Hanna Paint Company building111 E. Long Street DemolishedHayes Hall108 N. Oval Mall1893In useNational Register-listed, OSU buildingHotel Chittenden and Henrietta Theater205 N. High Street 1895DemolishedMasonic Temple34 N. 4th Street 1898In useNational Register-listed. One among several initial architects before further expansionsMt. Vernon Ave. M.E. ChurchMt. Vernon Avenue and 18th StreetDemolishedNeil Ave. M.E. Church610 Neil AvenueIn useNow The Sanctuary on NeilNeil House (remodeling)41 S. High Street DemolishedO.L. Rankin house98 Buttles AvenueDemolishedAlso known as the E.W. Vance house and as Hutchinson Hall, nurse's home for White Cross HospitalOrton Hall155 Oval Drive South1893In useNational Register-listed, OSU buildingPeter Sells House755 Dennison Avenue 1895In useNational Register-listedPublic School Library4 E. Town Street 1892DemolishedRemodeled former churchSecond German M.E. Church119 E. Gates Street In useNow Gates-Fourth United Methodist ChurchSt. Francis R. C. Church386 Buttles Avenue1896In useAlso known as St. Francis of Assisi Catholic ChurchT&OC Passenger Station379 W. Broad Street 1895In useNational Register-listedTown Street M.E. Church873 Bryden Road 1900In useNow the First AME Zion ChurchTwenty-Third Street School1235 Mt. Vernon Avenue 1888DemolishedLater known as Mount Vernon Junior High SchoolUniversalist Church331 E. State Street 1891DemolishedYMCA Building34 S. 3rd Street 1893DemolishedMoved to the Downtown YMCA building in 1923; site now occupied by the Columbus Dispatch Building
Additionally, the Charles Frederick Myers house in Columbus is suspected to be a Yost & Packard work.
Outside Columbus Historical nameImageAddressDate completedStatusNotesHarrison County Courthouse100 W. Market Street, Cadiz, Ohio1895In useNational Register-listedWesterville High School-Vine Street School44 N. Vine Street, Westerville, Ohio1896In useNow the Emerson Elementary School. National Register-listed.Wood County Courthouse and Jail1 Court House Square, Bowling Green, Ohio1896In useNational Register-listedFirst Church of Christ, Scientist2704 Monroe Street, Toledo, Ohio1898In useNational Register-listedOdd Fellows' Home for Orphans, Indigent and AgedSpringfield, Ohio1898In useNational Register-listedSt. Joseph's Catholic SchoolWapakoneta, Ohio1899In useNational Register-listedWyandot County Courthouse and JailUpper Sandusky, Ohio1900In useNational Register-listedLoewenstein and Sons Hardware BuildingCharleston, West Virginia1900In useNational Register-listedMarion County Court HouseFairmont, West Virginia1900In useNational Register-listedFranklin College Building No. 5New Athens, Ohio1900In useNational Register-listed
Additionally, the firm designed the First Presbyterian Church, Urbana High School, the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, and a barn for Frank Chance at 438 Scioto Street, and the house of Mrs. M.J. Laudenbach (524 Scioto Street), all in Urbana, Ohio. In St. Marys, Ohio, the firm designed the Grand Opera House (105-113 W. Spring St., 1895, extant) and the Gustave Bamberger residence (225 South Wayne Street, built 1895, extant).
See also Architecture of Columbus, Ohio
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