Two and three storey brick storefronts run under a repeating line of lit steel arches on High Street.
What Short North looks like
High Street runs straight through the district under a run of lit steel arches, each one spanning the road corner to corner in a repeating line down the block. The arches are simple metal frames topped with a lit glass globe, visible above the traffic day and night. Two and three storey brick buildings line both sides of the street below them, ground floor storefronts under awnings and projecting signs. Apartments and offices fill the floors above the shops.
Several blank side walls carry painted murals in flat, bright colour where one building steps back from its neighbour and leaves a stretch of brick exposed. Galleries, bars, restaurants and small shops fill the storefronts, with hanging blade signs and neon rather than large chain storefronts. A handful of newer buildings run six to ten storeys among the older stock, set back above the cornice line that runs the rest of the block. Parked cars and a narrow concrete sidewalk run the length of the strip on both sides.
occupies a glass fronted storefront building on High Street, a community centre mixed in with the bars and galleries at street level. , a brick Masonic lodge built in 1915 with arched stained glass windows, now holds apartments near the district's north end. , its lawns and mature trees, sits at the district's southwest corner.
Shot in Short North
For I Am Wrath, the production used a storefront at as a tattoo studio. The building sits on the same stretch of galleries and bars that runs the length of the corridor.
I Am Wrath, 2016
The tattoo studio
The production used the storefront at 1242 North High Street as a tattoo studio. The block runs the same narrow storefronts and hanging signs as the rest of the corridor. Street View
Rows of three to five storey Italianate brick buildings line the sidewalk in Over-the-Rhine, the same way storefronts run under apartments on High Street. Ground floors hold galleries, bars and restaurants, much like the mix here. The blocks run taller and denser than the Short North's, and Over-the-Rhine carries no matching overhead arches, so keep the frame tight on one storefront row rather than the whole street. Try searching Italianate brick storefront row now.
Bishop Arts keeps the same 1920s brick storefronts as High Street, painted facades and awnings over a run of independent galleries, cafes and shops along one strip. Most of the strip is a single storey, so a two storey building here is the exception rather than the rule, and a wide shot reads shorter than the Short North's two and three storey blocks. Try searching 1920s brick storefront strip now.
Wynwood in Miami, Florida
Wynwood's blank walls carry the same scale of painted mural as the side walls along High Street, on low one and two storey former warehouses rather than storefronts with apartments above. The buildings run lower and more industrial than the Short North's, so this works best framed on a single mural wall rather than a full street of storefronts. Try searching painted mural wall now.
