Nomination for Northfield Town Hall

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior JUL I 0 2000 architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property other names/site number 2.

Location street & number - M Aot for publication N/ Aricinity city or town - State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this xl nomination -request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of June 23,2000 Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO State of Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification V entered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the - other, (explain:) comments.) state Ohio Date Register. Registration Form National Register Northfield Center National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Northfield Town Hall removed from the National meets does not meet the Naticnal Register criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered significant historic name 9546 Brandywine Road Northfield Center Town Hall Signature of certifying official/Title In my opinion,the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.(See continuation sheet for additional This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete tARY by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, code 153 zip code 44067 1 hereby certify that the property is: Dept. Head code OH county _Summit 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) - private * building(s) - district - public-State _ Sites - public-Federal .structures -object 6.

Function or Use GOVERNMENT / town hall 7. Description foundation CONCRETE Noncontributing BRICK other Total walls Historic Functions roof Narrative Description Architectural Classification Current Functions ASPHALT SHINGLE/COMPOSITION Other: Flemish Revival in the National Register Northfield Town Hall County and State SOCIAL/meeting hall Category of Property Number of contributing resources previously listed Name of Property Name of related multiple property listing (Enter categories from instructions) (Check only one box) (Check as many boxes as apply) Number of Resources within Property Summit County, Ohio Materials x public-local (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS/ OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Section number - Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio The Northfield Town Hall is a small two-story-and-basement building of brick and steel construction. Three bays wide and five bays deep, the building has a central pavilion with wings, red brick walls laid in common in the central pavilion - give it Flemish Revival overtones. The building stands adjacent to the southwest corner of the original Northfield Center Public Square, at the intersection of State Route 82, Brandywine Road, and Olde Eight Road (formerly State Route 8).

Although road widening and commercial development have eroded the two-acre public green, the Northfield Town Hall enjoys a deep setback that, together with an old- style bandstand of new construction to the north and a mid-nineteenth-century clapboard farmhouse to the south, preserves its historic setting (Photo #1). Rectangular in plan, with a high basement, the building is 41 feet wide and 68 feet deep (Photo #2). Ranks of large, plain double-hung sash have sandstone sills. First-story windows have 1/1 lights and are grouped in table and a corbeled brick cornice. At the center of each stepped gable is a brick oculus. A combination hipped and flat roof contains four hipped roof dormers, two in the north elevation and two in the south elevation. The building had two outside end chimneys with corbeled caps, one in the north elevation (now truncated) and one in the east (rear) elevation.

A broad flight of concrete steps leads to the building's central entrance with its stone-capped brick stoop (Photo a bold segmental-arch surround of corbeled brick. Above the entrance, an impost stone is incised, in Art Rest rooms and two administrative offices complete the first floor. On the second floor (foreshortened by the two-story auditorium) are two offices and a meeting room; in the basement are a large meeting room, kitchen, sheriff's office, storage room, and toilet. seamlessly matches the original building in style and materials. At an unknown date, the original tiered central staircase, which had no railing, was replaced with a flared concrete staircase with pipe railing, and several windows in the south and rear elevations were blocked up (Photo #5). In recent years a lift was installed in the Description (8-86) As a ca.

1910 postcard view (Photo #8) attests, the exterior of the building is little altered. In 1928, a one-story, National Register of Historic Places two-bay garage was added to house a new fire department (Photo #4). The new wing, 27 by 34 feet in size, proscenium and a low stage flanked by two small corner rooms containing emergency exits and storage space. leads directly to a small but lofty two-story auditorium(Photo #7). The auditorium features a simple flat-arch NPS Form 10-900-a Page - pairs; second-story windows have 2/2 lights and are grouped in threes. The building has a plain brick water bond, and sandstone trim. Five crow-stepped gables with plain sandstone caps - one at each corner and another #3). The original double doors (these have a single light in the upper half) with segmental-arch transom feature staircase with plain balusters and carved newels (Photo #6).

The foyer in turn opens to a short central hall that NPS Form10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number 7 Page 2 Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio ell of the garage addition to provide handicap access to the building. Brown aluminum storm windows now was substantially remodeled. Second-floor partitions were removed, a new clerk's office was added, walls throughout were paneled or painted, the building was rewired, and rest rooms were modernized. Historically, the town hall was landscaped very simply, with a broad front lawn and specimen deciduous trees. A concrete walk led from the central entrance to the street and around the north side of the building to an broad front lawn remains, at the center of which a large flagpole was recently installed.

A curved concrete walk leads to the building entrance from a small paved parking lot that occupies the northeast corner of the town hall property. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places cover the original sash. original raked floor, and movable chairs replaced the former fixed seating. Beginning in 1973,the town hall Interior alterations have been more extensive.In1954,a new,level hardwood floor replaced the auditoriums (8-86) outside stairwell leading to the basement, and narrow, unpaved drives flanked both sides of the hall. Today, the Summit County, Ohio Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Areas of Significance X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) G A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. Significant Person L B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. L F a commemorative property.

- G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Moore, Frank R., Akron, Ohio Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) n/a Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National * Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - recorded by Historic American Engineering 1909-1950 Bibilography Register Architect/Builder Significant Dates ENTERTAINMENT/recreation SOCIAL HISTORY individual distinction.

Criteria Considerations POLITICS/government Northfield Center Township Cultural Affiliation Property is: Period of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Northfield Town Hall our history. (Enter categories from instructions) Name of repository: Record # for National Register listing.) (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualitying the property Summit County, Ohio Name of Property 10. Geographical Data - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title Carol Poh Miller/Historical Consultant organization Historic Preservation Association _ date 4/20/00 street & number 17903 Rosecliff Road - telephone 216-692-0747 city or town _ . state . Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

Representative black and white photographs of the property. (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) street & number 9546 Brandywine Road _ telephone 330-467-7646 - zip code 44067-0815 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications tothe National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect name Cleveland Easting Photographs Maps Continuation Sheets Additional Documentation Additional items Boundary Justification Northfield Center Township UTM References Northfield Center Northfield Town Hall Northing County and State (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) under contract with the Olde Northfield Acreage of Property 0.5 acre of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O.Box37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings.

Response to this request is required to obtain Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. Zone NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number _ 8 Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio Statement of Significance Located at the geographic and historic heart of old Northfield Township in northern Summit County, the Northfield Town Hall is significant under Criterion A for its long association with the civic and social life of Northfield.

Since its construction in 1909, the simple red brick building with its distinctive crow-stepped gables as the location of all township trustees' meetings, the building has hosted band rehearsals, Scout troop activities, dancing schools, political rallies, meetings of the Ladies Cemetery Association, and numerous other social and civic activities. Its two-story auditorium early on served as a venue for school dramatic productions and, in the 1930s, when commercial entertainment options in the then-rural community were few, motion pictures. A matching two-bay garage added in 1928 on the north side of the building housed the township's fire trucks until 1955, when a new fire station was built.

Although Northfield Center Township has seen rapid population Historical Background Because of its well-drained, fertile soil and proximity to the Cuyahoga River (which was navigable by shallow- draught boats), Northfield Township was considered so desirable that it was divided into 160-acre tracts and parceled out to proprietors of the Connecticut Land Company. Many held on to their tracts, with the result that the township developed slowly. The first settler, Isaac Bacon of Boston, arrived with his family in 1807. The next, Jacob Cranmer, came three years later and settled a half mile away. In 1814, George Wallace built a substantial waterfalls giving rise to several industrial enterprises, including a gristmill and distillery, and to the township's first school, general store, tavern, and post office. On May 24, 1819, the township's ten electors several others put forward that day.

Northfield grew slowly. By 1827, there were just 47 householders. In 1833, Milton Arthur opened a general store at the crossroads in the center of the township (the present intersection of State Route 82 and Brandywine Road), and a small settlement known as Northfield Center took root. A post office was established there in 1837, and in 1841 O. A. Bishop opened a tavern. About 1840, a Public Square was laid out at the center. Comprised of four half-acre plots given by each of four men - George Lillie, Hezekiah Palmer, Lucien Bliss, and Milton Arthur - the square became the site of several pivotal town buildings, including the first town hall, Continuation Sheet voted to organize Northfield Township. Jeremiah Cranmer suggested the name "Northfield,"which was among growth in recent decades, the town hall continues to play a vital role in the community's civic and social life.

has served not only as the seat of local government but also as a community meeting hall. In addition to serving Page - 3 sawmill on the Brandywine Creek at the extreme southern edge of the township. Brandywine flourished, its (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio the Presbyterian Church, the present town hall, and, later, the commercial Folk Block.! Most early residents of Northfield Township made their living by farming. The rural community's isolation lifted with the arrival, in1895, of the Akron, Bedford & Cleveland (ABC) interurban line.

For 21 years, the line passed through Northfield Center along the Akron-Cleveland (Olde Eight) Road, stopping at a small depot on the north side of the Public Square, where it picked up both passengers and farm products bound for urban markets. In 1916, the rail line was shifted to a new double track one-half mile to the east, where it ran until service was halted in On May 4, 1908, Northfield Township trustees Jacob F. J. Richey, Levi Burroughs, and Charles Gibson instructed township clerk M. A. Van Horn to advertise for bids for painting and re-roofing the town hall, a small brick building erected in 1848 at the southeast corner of the Public Square. Two weeks later, on May 20, 1908, seventy voters petitioned trustees "to call a special election for the purpose of voting on the question of a New the amount of $10,000 to build a new town hall.

The following month, township trustees met in Akron "for the purpose of inspecting buildings and looking up suitable material such as be used in the construction" of the new the project. Little is known about Moore, who is listed in Akron city directories between 1907 and 1915. In the 1908 directory, he is identified as manager of the Akron Rubber Engineering Company ("architectural work and of the Moore Architectural & Engineering Company. Except for the Northfield Town Hall, no other projects attributed to Moore have been identified. A decision to locate the new hall "in the center of the southwest section of the Public Square" proved controversial and was rescinded following citizen opposition to placing the building on any part of the square.

At a public meeting held on November 17, 1908, the majority of those attending cast their votes instead for the McConnell lot adjoining the southwest corner of the Public Square. On November 28, 1908, trustees resolved to the plans and specifications as presented by the architect. In March 1909, township trustees awarded the following contracts for construction of the new town hall: - Cleveland Fireproof Construction Company, for concrete footings and cement floors, stonework, brickwork, steel and ironwork, fireproof floors, lathing and plastering, $5,700; - P. B. Loomis, for carpentry, sheet metal work, roofing, and hardware, $3,065; - A.W. Hanson, for painting and glazing, $300; 'Of these, only the Northfield Town Hall remains. 1932. (8-86) Continuation Sheet building. On October 20, 1908, township trustees resolved to employ Akron architect Frank R.

Moore to design National Register of Historic Places Town Hall." At a special election held on June 30, 1908,voters approved (105 to 42) bonding the township in Page 4 engineering rubber factories a specialty").In the 1910 directory, he is listed as president and general manager NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio - Davis Acetylene Gas Company, for lighting system (without fixtures), $330. At the same meeting, the clerk was instructed to advertise the sale of the old town hall to the highest bidder. Fred Seidel, with a bid of $251, was the buyer. As finishing work - including the installation of auditorium seating and hardware - continued, trustees held their first meeting in the new town hall on August 17, 1909.

On important meeting place for the small rural community.

(In 1910, Northfield Township had a population of 560.) On January 1, 1910, trustees granted a request by George Bliss to use the hall for band practice on condition that the band pay the janitor for his services and give "at least 6 free open air concerts" at the the signatures of a majority of voters "for the purpose of opening the Town Hall free of charge to public schools, [the Northfield-Macedonia] Ladies Cemetery Association, Churches and [the] Bliss Band." Trustees the building charmingly documents one such use: it shows a group of schoolchildren, in costume, posed in front of the town hall on the occasion of a 1925 performance titled "A Midsummer Dream." In 1916, when the Northfield School was destroyed by fire, classes for the fifth through twelfth grades were held in the town hall basement until a new school opened the following year.?

In the 1930s, the town hall auditorium became a part- time movie theater, screening moving pictures each weekend to the delight of its rural neighbors. "Olde Northfield," meanwhile (as the old township had come to be known), experienced political change as its 1905, residents of the eastern part of Northfield Township, together with those in the western part of the completion of the Northfield Town Hall, voters by special election on August 10, 1912, voted 84-52 in favor of incorporating Northfield Township as the Village of Northfield. In 1930, voters in the northwest corner of the by a vote of 196-33, Northfield Center Township seceded from Northfield Village.

An article in the Akron Beacon Journal cited "dissatisfaction over distribution of relief and continual squabbling over town Township Photo Album." (8-86) voted unanimously to comply, and thereafter the town hall served as a social and civic meeting place, hosting National Register of Historic Places bandstand on Public Square. Later that year, on September 5, 1910, taxpayers presented a petition containing 2The photograph may be viewed on the township's Web site: http://home.att.net/~northctr.

Click on "The Northfield Center December 6,1909, they resolved that the new Town Hall be accepted & opened to the public." Section number - Page - - 20* Century Heating & Ventilating Company, for furnace, pipes, and registers, $140; and From the beginning, the Northfield Town Hall functioned not only as the seat of local government but also as an *Telephone conversation with Arch Milani, president, Historical Society of Olde Northfield, April 17, 2000. Scout meetings, church groups, band rehearsals, and school dramatic productions. A photograph that hangs in adjacent Twinsburg Township, voted to incorporate as Macedonia Village. In 1912, three years after old township voted to separate from Northfield Village to become Sagamore Hills Township.

Finally, in 1935, population - and the demand for increased government services and greater local control - grew apace.In NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio In 1928, the Northfield Village Fire Department was organized and a new two-bay garage was added on the north side of the building to house the department's fire engines. The addition, which matched the existing Route 82. (The county sheriff later occupied the vacated garage.) In 1946, the town hall's single jail cell, no longer in use, was declared surplus property and sold to the Village of Northfield. In 1954, the auditorium floor was rebuilt; it was leveled and strengthened with steel beams.

Community use of the building, meanwhile, other activities, meetings of Rainbow Girls, Scout troops, Daughters of America (a patriotic and social In 1954, Harley Kerr operated a dancing school in the auditorium, and in the 1960s the town hall hosted productions of the Brandywine Players, a community theater group.

The community's ties to the modest but distinctive building are suggested by an entry in the trustees' minutes for November 8, 1943: "Clerk instructed to write letter of thanks to Daughters of America for their labor in painting basement." Today, the historic Northfield Town Hall continues its historic role as a civic and social meeting place for a currently, Summit View Church, several condominium and homeowners' associations, a weight-loss group, the Historical Society of Olde Northfield, the Olde Northfield Historic Preservation Association, and, as it has since 1910, the Northfield-Macedonia Ladies Cemetery Association. According to township administrator Samuel J. Ciocco, the building is used 285 days a year, testifying to its central place in the civic and social life of Northfield Center Township. A Note on Other Historic Town Halls of Northern Summit County.

Four town halls in northern Summit County are listed in the National Register of Historic Places: Bath Town Hall in Bath Center, the Boston Township Hall in Peninsula, the Peninsula Village Hall in Peninsula, and the Tallmadge Town Hall. The latter three are listed as part of historic districts. Boston Heights Village is administered from a one-story wood-frame building erected as a schoolhouse in the nineteenth century. The former Richfield Town Hall, now occupied by the Northfield" today is comprised of four communities: Northfield Village, Northfield Center Township (which remains custodian of the historic Town Hall), the City of Madedonia, and Sagamore Hills Township. "Trustees' minutes for the period November 4, 1912, to May 22, 1935, are missing. continued. Trustees? minutes from the period 1935 to 1960?

indicate that the building regularly hosted, among improvement policies" as reasons for the separation. Late that year, Summit County Probate Judge Dean F. of the township trustees. In addition, the building hosts meetings of numerous community groups, including, May awarded Northfield Center Township sole possession of the town hall. community that now numbers about 4,0oo.It serves as the seat of local government and the site of all meetings building in design and materials, served this function until 1955,when a new fire station opened nearby on State Section number 8Page (8-86) Page organization that furnished flags to schools, churches, Scout troops, and others), and the local historical society. 5 "Town Split, Akron Beacon Journal, April 3, 1935, in Northfield Center Township Scrapbook, Northfield Town Hall OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio historical society, was erected in 1883 and replaced by a new building in 1988. The former town hall in Macedonia, a small brick building erected in 1931, served until 1959; it is now occupied by a dentist's office. Akron city directories. Miscellaneous issues. Goosman, Bessie. History of Olde Northfield Township. Northfield, O.: Historical Society of Olde Northfield, Grismer, Karl. Akron and Summit County, Ohio. Akron, O.: Summit County Historical Society, [1957]. Historical Society of Olde Northfield. Miscellaneous records. Northfield Center Township, Ohio. Record of the Proceedings of the Trustees of Northfield Township, Summit Olde Northfield Sesquicentennial Edition, The Akron Times, June 14, 1957.

Perrin, William Henry, ed. History of Summit County, Ohio. Chicago, 1881. Verbal Boundary Description Boundary Justification The nominated property includes the entire parcel historically associated with the Northfield Town Hall. 1973. (8-86) County, Ohio. Bibliography Continuation Sheet Geographical Data Section number 9, 10 Page 7 NPS Form10-900-a The nominated property consists of part of Original Lot 56 as described in Warranty Deed No. 24586 recorded in Volume388,Page145,of Summit County Deeds.It is approximately 88feet wide and260feet deep. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio Additional Documentation Carol Poh Miller, photographer December 1999 C. P.

Miller, 17903 Rosecliff Road, Cleveland, OH Northfield Town Hall, looking west from the junction of Brandywine and Olde Eight roads, south of State Route 82. Bandstand of modern construction is seen at far right. Photo #2 Façade and south elevation, looking northwest. Entrance detail, looking west. Photo #4 North elevation looking southwest, showing garage addition of 1928. Photographs (8-86) Continuation Sheet Westand northelevations, looking southeast. Garage addition of 1928 at left. National Register of Historic Places Photo #5 Photo #3 Photo #1 Page Section numberPhotos NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Northfield Town Hall Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller, photographer December 1999 C. P. Miller, 17903 Rosecliff Road, Cleveland, OH Foyer, showing staircase detail.

Photo #7 Auditorium, looking toward stage. Photo #8 Ca. 1910 Postcard view probably made shortly after construction showing façade and north elevation. Note that the The author of this nomination wishes to acknowledge the assistance of members of the Olde Northfield Historic Preservation Association, especially Winifred A. Nelson, Irene Kusmierz, Blanche Forbes, and Lucille Mclntyre, in researching the history of Northfield Center Township and the Northfield Town Hall. 44067-0212 grounds have yet to be landscaped. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Olde Northfield. Photographer unknown Photo #6 National Park Service Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Copy negative property of Olde Northfield Historic Preservation Association, P.O. Box 212, Northfield, OH (8-86) Northfield Town Hall, Summit County, Ohio 3 20.76° BRANDY WINE 2-12- 1910 - 25 AC.

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OFFICE SIDEWALK MAIN ENTRANCE ZONING SCTY POWER PANELS FIRST FLOOR SummiT Co., OHIO Northfield Center Town Hall CARAGE Northfield Town Hall, Summit County, Ohio Northrield O NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: OTHER : N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: TELEPHONE DATE ACCEPT RETURN 8/10/00 8/24/00 REJECT DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 7/10/00 REVIEWER PDIL: RECOM./CRITERIA DATE RECEIVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N N SLR DRAFT: N PROPERTY NATIONAL: Northfield Town Hall TOWNHAL NORTHFIELD TOWN HALL TOWNHAL PHOTO #3 OF 8 NORTHFIELD TOWN HALL PHOTO #6 OF 8 NORTHFIELD TOWN HALL Northfield 0 NORTHFIELD TOWN HALL 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) NORTHFIELD QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO 1994 UNITED STATES NORTHFIELD, OHIO RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS SPECIAL MEETING May 17, 1999 Parposes of Meeting; 1) Approval of vouchers 2) Placement of the Town Hall on the National Registry of Historic Places AlIn the absence of the Chair, Vice Chair James called the meeting to order at 7:01pm..

ROLL CALL: Brent A. Sommer, absent; Richard A. James, aye; Mary K. Catalano, aye 1) Sign-in Sheet available at the beginning of the meeting to be attached to the official Minutes of this Meeting B THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE was recited. C. NOTIFICATION OF THIS SPECIAL MEETING notice to the Akron Beacon Journal, Sun Newspaper, News Leader, and Cleveland Plain Dealer; The Township's Web Site; a Notice posted on the Town Hall bulletin board; E-mail; and the Park Sign. D. DISCUSSION, RESOLUTIONS 1) Trustee James moved to authorize the Clerk to draw vouchers in the amount of $80,867.28 to meet current expenditures Trustee Catalano seconded the motion. 2) Trustee James moved for Resolution No. 99/5-17 to: support the Historical Preservation Society of Olde Northfield in their submission of an application to put the Northfield Center Town Hall on the National Registry of Historic Places.

E TRUSTEE JAMES MOVED TO ADJOURN THE MEETING Seconded by Trustee Catalano All items available for review except for those marked as "Confidential". There being no further business to discuss the meeting was adjourned at 7:06 pm 0085 Meeting The Public was notified of this Special Meeting by: Cable 23;A"Sunshine Law" Held Honsberger, (YEAR)