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09/20/2018

Former Wolfe family retreat re-emerges as Violet Township community space

From The Columbus Library

Violet Township government officials are preparing to move into the Wigwam by early next year, providing a public use for the private retreat east of Columbus where the Wolfe family once hosted powerful politicians and Hollywood royalty.

Wolfe Enterprises, a business controlled by family members of late businessman and longtime Dispatch Publisher John F. Wolfe, sold the historic 63-acre property near Pickerington to Violet Township for $2.7 million in July.

Besides providing office space for the township’s eight employees, the Wigwam will be reborn as community space, township Director of Operations John Eisel told visitors Tuesday during a tour through the retreat. Fairfield County commissioners moved their regular Tuesday meeting from downtown Lancaster to the Wigwam so they could see the property.

Other Fairfield County officials ooohed and aaahed as they followed Eisel around the wooded retreat, decorated with totem poles and other Native American decor, and listened to him describe the plans for the property. “We are going to stay with the rustic look throughout the complex,” he said.

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