Novak Funeral Home is today a handsome presence along High Street. The house was built in 1927 by a man named B. F. Patterson, who also built two other near-identical houses on East Dominion for his children—one of brick, and the other a frame colonial house. (Florence Patterson Ruine lived at 27 E Dominion, a Dutch Colonial.) The house’s architect was V.S. Julian. Patterson was politically active and at one time ran for mayor of Columbus. The house was at one time surrounded by a wrought-iron fence. In 1953 the building became Beechwold Nursing Home, an enterprise which was closed in 1980. The building sat empty for 7 years. Novak purchased it and rehabbed the building, an effort requiring 13 months and who-knows-how-much money.

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