50 Lincoln Short North

 

The Bed & Breakfast we stayed at in Columbus, OH. Did I mention that Ohio seems to have plenty of brick? And Columbus lots of cobblestone streets. Parking was a bit of a nightmare, but otherwise the location was great.

Westcott House, part 4

 

This may well be the most attractive part of the house. The Japanese influence is evident, and the garden really gives it a soul - especially when seen from above.

Westcott House, part 3

The front of the house, the part that faces the street, was difficult to capture in one photograph. A better picture might be taken from across the street. Or better yet, from a drone!

Westcott House, part 2

 

This family home was built in 1908 for Burton J. Westcott, a prominent industrialist in Springfield, OH. It is one of the few private homes Frank Lloyd Wright built in Ohio and the only one in the Prairie style. There are also Japanese influences, as Wright had first visited that country in 1905.

Westcott House

We were fortunate enough to know someone who gives tours of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Westcott House in Springfield, OH. Here we checked out some of the exterior before the tour.

MAZU

A nice lunch was had at MAZU, another interesting Yellow Springs restaurant. The fare was primarily Middle Eastern but also Far Eastern. As a lover of oyster mushrooms I couldn't resist the Yansu Mushrooms (lower left). The falafel balls (upper right, here called Fattoush) were also really tasty.

Buckeye Mocha

The cozy lobby of the Mills Park Hotel has a coffee shop and restaurant called Ellie's. It was here that I tried the Buckeye Mocha - not only the best tasting mocha of the trip, but one of the best of my life! Ohio has a tradition of combining chocolate with peanut butter and calling the resulting confections "Buckeyes". For me this combination is positively heavenly and perhaps connects to the Ohio in me.