Dorrian Commons Park

Dorrian Commons Park was a park and part of the Franklin County Government Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio, United States. The park opened in 1976 on the site of the first and second Franklin County Courthouse, built in 1887. Dorrian Commons closed in 2018, pending construction of a new courthouse.

Dorrian Commons Park
Park plaza and fountain in 2020
Coordinates	39°57′15.826″N 82°59′55.313″W
Opened	1976
Closed	2018
Public transit access	1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 51, 52, 61, CMAX

History

Inscription with the park's name, 2018

The second Franklin County Courthouse, built in 1887, stood on the site until its demolition in 1974.^[1] The park opened in 1976.^[2]

The park has a metal sculpture by an unknown artist.^[3] A large cast of Henry Moore's Oval with Points was originally installed in Dorrian Commons Park.^[4] The sculpture was moved across High Street in 2014 to the plaza of the newly remodeled Hall of Justice of the Franklin County Government Center.^[5][2]

The park is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by a county municipal courthouse. The adjacent James A. Karnes Building is to be repurposed or demolished as well. The park fountain was turned off in August 2018. The underutilized park was closed off in December 2018. It had also been scheduled to be demolished in 2003, to be replaced with the common pleas courthouse, a project moved and built north of the government center complex.^[2]

References

1. Darbee, Jeff. "City Quotient: Columbus Architect George Bellows". Columbus Monthly. Archived from the original on 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
2. "New Municipal Courthouse to replace Downtown park at South High and Mound streets". Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
3. "[Untitled]". Ohio Outdoor Sculpture. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
4. Large Oval with Points^{[permanent dead link]}, Ohio Outdoor Sculpture
5. "CMA's Oval with Points by Henry Moore Moves to New Location at outside the new Courthouse". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20. Retrieved 2018-10-30.

External links

• Ohio portal

• Media related to Dorrian Commons Park at Wikimedia Commons
• "Dorrian Commons Park". Downtown Columbus.