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THE SUPER-QUICK SELF-GUIDED TOUR OF DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS (JUST THE BEST STUFF!)

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Begin your tour at the Visitors Center, where you can see a Chihuly glass installation (head to the top of the stairs for a close look). There are more than 900 individual pieces of glass, and it’s the ONLY Chihuly that is lit from inside the work.

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Walk a few steps east to the public library, by I.M. Pei, one of the most famous of all living architects (he also designed the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland and the Louvre addition in Paris).

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You will also find Henry Moore’s Large Arch, the largest Henry Moore of its kind in the United States. I.M. Pei suggested Moore as the artist for the plaza, and attended the installation of the piece, along with Robert Indiana.

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Head a few steps east to Inn at Irwin Gardens, which was the family home of the Irwin families, and the childhood home of J. Irwin Miller. The gardens are open seasonally to the public twice a week, check the sign for days and times.

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Now head back west and cross the street, to Eliel Saarinen’s church, the first U.S. church in the modern style, featured in Time and Newsweek when it was built in 1942. (The public is permitted inside, the entrance is on the east.)

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Now head west on Fifth Street, one block to Washington Street, to the former Irwin Union Bank...

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Irwin Conference Center was originally a ground-breaking bank design created by the legendary designer Eero Saarinen, with assistance by Kevin Roche. It’s now one of the THREE National Landmarks by Eero Saarinen in Columbus.

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