The heart of Worthington is its historic district on and around High Street, a compact area of Federal-style buildings dating largely from the 1810s to the 1850s. Unlike many Ohio towns that lost their early architecture to fire or redevelopment, Worthington's downtown survived largely intact, and the streetscape along the Village Green gives a genuine sense of what a prosperous early Ohio settlement looked like.
The Village Green itself, a narrow rectangle fronted by the Presbyterian church at one end and civic buildings at the other, was modelled deliberately on the New England greens of the Connecticut settlers who founded the town in 1803. Walking south from the Green along High Street, you pass the Buttles Building (1811), the oldest surviving commercial structure in town, alongside a run of Greek Revival storefronts, Federal homes, and the 1820 Masonic lodge. Most buildings are in active use — shops, restaurants, offices — which keeps the district alive rather than merely preserved.
The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is an easy 30-minute walk on its own, or longer if you extend into the residential streets to the east, where blocks of early 19th-century homes sit largely unchanged.