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.