The Neil House, an inn and tavern owned by William Neil across from Statehouse that became a grand hotel, was located where Huntington Center now sits.
For more than 140 years, the Neil House hotel was"The Place to Stay" in Columbus.
William Neil was a man of vision and energy who found a home and base of operations for himself and his family in the then-frontier village of Columbus that was the new capital city of the relatively new State of Ohio. Born in Kentucky, Neil came of age there and found a wife named Hannah Schwing, who he brought to Ohio in 1816.
Over the next several years, William Neil used methods both persuasive and fearful — and by today’s standards not all that legal or ethical — and put together a stagecoach empire. He came to be called the “Old Stagecoach King.” By 1840, if one boarded a coach in Wheeling, West Virginia to go anywhere north of the Ohio River, one was riding on a coach owned by the Neil and Moore Company.
The Neil House with impressive service and a huge ballroom soon became a regional center of society and culture in central Ohio. William Neil was a Whig who became a Republican, and the Neil House by the 1850s was a political base as well.
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