Rush Creek Village in Worthington is part of Ohio Modern...  The Ohio Historical Society has been working on a project about our recent history...  A lot of  the report about Ohio Modern focuses on Dayton, Ohio and it's suburbs... The "Ohio Historical Society" project defines the Ohio Modern period as 1940 through 1970. The Dayton area was not in a vacuum by any stretch of the imagination, Ohio our recent history! '4.0 DESIGN TRENDS IN OHIO, 1940-1970' (link below) says "In Ohio, traditional architectural embellishments remained popular throughout the recent past period. Modern styles, such as International and Wrightian, were employed on a much more limited basis." ...part of that limited basis is in Worthington.  There are case studies of modern styles in the "4.0 DESIGN TRENDS IN OHI... 07/26/2011

Theodore van Fossen,  the architect who designed Rush Creek Village passed away earlier this month.  I  saw  it on the PrairieMod site first, In Memoriam Theodore van Fossen on PrarieMod has a link to the article  today by Jim Weiker in The Columbus Dispatch: Theodore van Fossen | 1919-2010 Architect designed Rush Creek Village Theodore van Fossen died December 9, 2010, according to today's Columbus Dispatch article. The article in the Sunday December 12, 2010 Columbus Dispatch about two new homes being built in Rush Creek Village said the families building the first homes in the Usonian neighborhood in decades met with van Fossen in Pennsylvania about the plans for their homes.  The Columbus Dispatch says van Fossen made one visit to Worthington in the past few years during the planni... 12/21/2010

When you think of historic Worthington you think of colonial revival architecture or I do.... but Rush Creek Village in Worthington is on the National Register of Historic Places.  Worthington Ohio modern! The community of Usonian style homes are historic. Did you see the article in last Sundays Columbus Dispatch about the two NEW homes being built in Rush Creek Village now.  Written by Jim Weiker  "  Couples faced, overcame myriad obstacles in quest to build in Worthington's historic Rush Creek"  but they are "hammering them out" The Usonian style development, a historic Worthington neighborhood is on the south east side of the city.  The two couples building new homes have lived in Rush Creek for years.  One of the most interesting parts of Weiker's articles to me is about the lots th... 12/14/2010

View Larger Map The historic style brought to mind by Worthington is usually "colonial" or "colonial revival." Yet Worthington home to Rush Creek Village has a large neighborhood of mid-century modern homes.  The homes in Rush Creek Village were built in the Usonian style reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright.  The Rush Creek Village homes were designed by Theodore Van Fossen and built by Richard Wakefield. Rush Creek Village is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Rush Creek homes are distinctive with cinder block walls, flat roofs, no garages. A New York Times Article, (here in the  San Diego Union Tribune) from 2004 subtitled "Little-known Rush Creek quietly survives 50 years, a testament to the principles of Frank Lloyd Wright" says of the Westbrook family  in 1987: "There, ... 05/18/2009