Swedlow Central

This is where my grandparents, Anne and Morris, raised Gerry, Bobby and David, the three Swedlow brothers. Gerry is the oldest. Bobby is the middle child and David is the youngest. I’ll have to talk about them another time.

Anyway, this house is on Remington Road in Bexley, a little city-within-a-city leafy enclave surrounded by Columbus, Ohio. Bexley was not quite built out during the 1950’s from what I was told by my father, Gerry. This house is about a block or so away from the main public elementary school, Cassingham and its attending Bexley Junior and Bexley High School buildings, which take over several blocks of land. All three brothers went to Bexley schools. My grandparents moved here from Boston when my dad was 8. My dad told me it was a wonderful place to grow up in the 1950’s. The white stones you see in the photo, below, are commonly found adorning many houses in Bexley: I’m not sure what they are. Overall, houses in Bexley lean towards an English aesthetic, which probably has something to do with the fact that it’s named after the original Bexley, an eastern borough of London in the UK.