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Thurber House

The restored home of humorist James Thurber, now a literary center.

Address
77 Jefferson Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
Franklin County parcel
010-220383

Thurber House at 77 Jefferson Avenue is the restored Victorian where the humorist and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber lived as an Ohio State student — the setting of the ghost in “The Night the Ghost Got In.” It now operates as a literary center and writers’ residency in the Jefferson Avenue historic district.

In the public record it is Franklin County parcel 010-220383. Open the record for the civic details of the block.

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