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Holy Rosary and St John the Evangelist
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Columbus, Ohio 43205
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Old Oaks Historic District

Holy Rosary St. John church is located in the Old Oaks neighborhood. Old Oaks is a Historic District just east of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The neighborhood is bounded on the West by the homes on Ohio Avenue, on the East by the homes on Kimball Place, on the North by Mooberry Street, and on the South by Livingston Avenue. Old Oaks is the most intact of Columbus's turn-of-the-century streetcar era neighborhoods that show the homes of the middle and upper classes. Architecture styles include American Four-Squares in Mission and Neoclassical Revival styles, as well as Modified Queen Annes. This site is maintained by the Old Oaks Civic Association, a volunteer group of residents who are interested in the continued restoration of the district as well as the betterment of the surrounding community.

Today, Old Oaks is the most intact of Columbus' turn-of-the-century streetcar era neighborhoods that shows the homes of the middle and upper classes. Homeowners were and are an economically, ethnically and religiously diverse group of people.