J.F. Miller Summer Home

Marble Cliff, Ohio

Date: 1895
Address: 1600 Roxbury
Style: Carpenter Gothic
J. F. Miller, resident of Richmond, Indiana and executive for the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, owned 4.8 acres in the Arlington Place Subdivision of Price and Griswold. . In 1953 it was purchased by Garry and Mary Myers, who operated their Highlights for Children business in a part of the house.
In 1983 the house, considered a significant structure because of its architectural style and detailing, was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Historical Photos of J.F. Miller Summer Home

This home is sometimes referred to as the Frick/McKay Residence, or the Frederick Stecker Residence. Stecker and his wife Virginia owned the home when it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The image below appeared in an early 1900s book entitled "Handsome Homes of Columbus, Ohio" published by S. S. Maughlin & Co. and illustrated by Bucher Engraving Co. The caption read "Rustic Bridge - Arlington." The following two images show the home today, and the bottom image is from "The Country Club District" brochure, circa 1915. For more information on this house, see the 1998 Tour of Homes document.

Typical of Packard residential design at the time, this house is an eclectic stylistic design that incorporates Victorian-era Stick wall treatments with irregular massing, Early Gothic Revival and Carpenter Gothic decorative treatments (with diamond-paned, pointed, and arched windows) and heavy bargeboards protecting the eaves.