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The Adelphi Building was home to the Adelphi Loan and Savings Company, a bank created by and for blacks in a time this was necessitated by discrimination, and the Colored Ohio National Guard headquarters. Carl Eugene Barnett, an African American who received a B.S. in Architectural Engineering from OSU in 1918, developed the plans and specifications for the building and supervised its construction. - Columbus Landmarks
https://www.columbuslandmarks.org/east-long-street-buildings-threatened/
Photo: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/kingarts/id/1765/
This point of interest is part of the tour: Near East Side Tour
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