Visit us to experience it all: architecture and art, gardens and landscaping, shopping, sports, and family activities. Columbus is conveniently located : just off Interstate 65 and only an hour from Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville. We can customize an itinerary for your clients, from a single day to a multi-day. Columbus features a diverse collection of tour destinations. Our packages highlight architecture, art, shopping, gardening, landscaping, industry and military. We offer group attractions such as our nationally ranked architecture featured on our city tour, a popcorn factory featured on Food Network’s “Unwrapped”, and a 70,000-square-foot greenhouse brimming with plants. See an exploded diesel engine, be served at a tearoom, experience an Italian-inspired garden, view nationally ranked landscape design, enjoy public art, and shop at an 85-store outlet center. Request a group tour planner containing information on lodging, dining, attractions, sample itineraries, information on our city tour options and anything else you might need to plan a great trip. Benefit from our hospitality and expertise as we help design a custom itinerary for your group.
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Zaharako’s Victorian Soda Shoppe fully restored!
One writer described Zaharako’s as “one of those Victorian-era soda fountains that looks like it should be in a museum.” The three Zaharako’s brothers opened the shop, warmly called “The Greeks” by locals, in 1900. When Lew Zaharako, the third-generation owner, died in June 2006, the future of Zaharako’s was uncertain.
But local businessman Tony Moravec purchased the shop and restored the skylights and roof, the onyx fountain, the mahogany woodwork and Italian marble counters. He also purchased the building next door, enabling him to create a museum space to exhibit the fixtures from Jahn’s, a New York-based, turn-of-the century ice cream parlor and install a larger kitchen and improved restrooms. He purchased the original Welte Orchestrion that had been sold and shipped to a collector in California, and it is now restored and music again fills the popular ice cream parlor.
To see photos and find out more about the renovation of the legendary Zaharako's ice cream shop, click here.
To read what the Chicago Sun-Times said about the restoration, go here.
For assistance, please contact Becky Harper, Director of Sales, at (800) 468-6564, extension 203, or Joyce Orwin, Tour Coordinator, at (800) 468-6564, extension 202.
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