by
Stuart J. Koblentz, Kate Erstein, Upper Arlington Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Upper Arlington was founded by brothers King and Ben Thompson, who purchased farmland in 1913 from James T. Miller. Inspired by the garden city movement, the Thompsons envisioned an idealistic residential community. The brothers engaged William Pitkin Jr., a prominent landscape architect from Rochester,...