Worthington Female Seminary Building

Basic details

Worthington Female Seminary Building is an image, with genre photograph.

It was created sometime in 1920.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

This photograph depicts the Worthington Female Seminary building while men are working to convert it into apartments. The building had many uses following the closing of the Seminary. The Ohio Central Normal School occupied the building until 1881. It then became a residential hotel, a sanitarium and finally apartments in 1920.

The converted Model T Truck was property of Herbert Worthington Griswold, great grandson of Worthington founder, Ezra Griswold.

Subjects

It features the organization Worthington Female Seminary.

It covers the topics buildings and vehicles.

It covers the city Worthington.

It features the address 582 High Street.

Record details

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

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0071.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 78-G-121.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on December 13, 2001. It was last updated November 3, 2025.

Copyright

In Copyright

Worthington Female Seminary 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 Worthington Female Seminary Building. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.