Nomination for North Ridgeville City Hall

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR | State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) 3 0 1974 U.S.

Route 20 (Center Ridge Road) 9 039 & Building X Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) OWNER OF PROPERTY NOV 11 1974 OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 093 LOCATION Lorain Elyria NAME Commercial CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE Site North Ridgeville CATEGORY Educational Government REGISTER STATUS Entertainment District CODE Private Both NATIONAL Structure OWNERSHIP Unoccupied Ohio Agricultural Yes: Park Public Military Being Considered Scientific Private Residence RECEIVED Museum COMMON: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Public Acquisition: Religious ENTRY NUMBER Industrial Object TO THE PUBLIC AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: 308 2nd Street (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: In Process 13 - Charles E.

Mosher - Transd - Other City Lorain County Courthouse North Ridgeville City Hall 7. DESCRIPTION S Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved [X Original Site The entranceway, approached by three stone steps, has a large entrance is a set of three round-headed windows, the central corners, louvered round arches, bracketed eaves, and a domical have recently been cleaned and pointed, so the building looks On the interior, the space has been partitioned, the ceilings lowered, and the interior wall treatment altered to provide for Town Hall is entirely modern commercial structures, hence CONDITION REGISTER Ruins RECEIVED NATIONAL very fresh and well cared for. roof are also bracketed.The round-arched windows on the side This is a small two-story brick building in the Italian Villa modern office use.

Thus there is little significant integrity to have alternating stone and brick voussoirs, giving the polychrome Fair one taller as in the Romanesque Revival style. the interior of the building.The immediate environment of the cornice returns. The upper square tower stage has chamfered elevations of the building are paired, and all window arches on the narrow end, placed in a slightly projecting tower bay. At the roof level the tower has a bracketed pediment with semi-circular arch which is glazed above the doors.The vous- style.It is basically a plain rectangular block with the entrance (Check One) mansard (Second Empire)roof.The eaves of the main hipped effect of the High Victorian Gothic style.The exterior walls Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

it is not part of a historic district. soirs are of stone and inscribed with the date 1882".Above the PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Science STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

sandstone quarrying, cheese factories, and a chair factory township business, with a second floor auditorium for social 1882 events. Conservation Transportation SIGNIFICANCE Military Commerce losophy Engineering Architecture Communications Aboriginal Art Theater itarian Literature Agriculture chief nineteenth century industries in Ridgeville were saw mills, Music Industry Landscape special geographical interest. Political This town hall is primarily significant as an excellent Invention Township do not follow the usual grid pattern of many other Sculpture Education which was productive and successful in the last quarter of the Western Reserve townships.This is because they run along its stylistic features, it represents a cultural lag compared built twenty years earlier.

example of a small public building in a conservative Italianate The first settlers from Waterbury, Connecticut, arrived in tower, and the alternating stone voussoirs of the arches. Other- Wellington, for example. Virtually the only concessions to the Social/Human- oldest in the county.It was originally called Rootstown after The Town Hall was built in 1882 as a place to conduct Ephraim Root, Connecticut Land Company surveyor. The wise the building differsin no essential respects from others 1809-1810,and the township was organized in 1813,the second Religion/Phi- taste of its actual date are the domical mansard roof of the It can be seen on the map that the roads of Ridgeville Because of the building's late date in relation to above the level of the lake.

idiom for its date, but it is also the seat of a township of a series of ridges, from southwest to northeast, formed by successive levels of the receding glacial lake which is now Lake Erie.The Town Hall stands on Center Ridge,150 feet to the Moorish Victorian fantasy which was being built in nearby The pattern of settlement of the township was not unusual.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (Chicago, 1916), I, 8, 73, 91-93. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGIT-IDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: National O FORM PREPARED BY Eric Johannesen, Preservationist July 1974 CITY OR TOWN: 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: DEC 2 7 1974 * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 ORGANIZATION Degrees Seconds LONGITUDE LATITUDE DATE 166-167. Name 4582230 COUNTY Cleveland CORNER Ohio STATE Minutes ATTEST: CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds RECEIVED North Ridgeville Sesquicentennial and Homecoming Association, REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Less than one One Hundred and Fifty Years (North Ridgeville, 1960), n.p. NAME AND TITLE: in the National Register and certify that ithas been UTM 414670 G.

Frederick Wright, A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio Title Local 10825 East Boulevard Western Reserve Historical Society STREET AND NUMBER: ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Accept DEC 2 7 1974 TECHNICAL Inventory OTHER 12-3-74 KEERER Send-back HAER Re-submit Maps ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL Review HISTORIAN Photos 74001553 12-4-74 National Register Write-up Working Number REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry Lorain 11.11.74.1995 119.7 Cole Entered DEC 3 0 1874 IN T:2106- 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 2-4-75 Form No. 10-301e UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

093 039 Lorain COUNTY North Ridgeville STATE PHOTO REFERENCE NATIONAL REGISTER NAME CODE COMMON: IDENTIFICATION ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER North Ridgeville City Hall PHOTO CREDIT: Ohio Northeast corner and entrance tower, looking southwest. PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) OHIO LONAW 1O. U. S. Route 20 (Center Ridge Road) NOV 1i 1974 July NEGATIVE FILED AT: Eric Johannesen Western Reserve Historical Society RECEIVED Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Route 20 (Center Ridge Road) NOV 1, 1974 July 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. West and south elevations, looking northeast.

Lorain IDENTIFICATION COUNTY 039 DATE Eric Johannesen North Ridgeville NAME STATE RECEIVED REGISTER COMMON: NATIONAL PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM CODE PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE OF PHOTO: OHIO (7 /72) LOCA TION NEGATIVE FILED AT: Western Reserve Historical Society North Ridgeville City Hall Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 U. S. G.S. Avon Quadrangle 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-1 093 Lorain Ohio COUNTY DATE NAME STATE REGISTER LOCATION NATIONAL North Ridgeville North Ridgeville City Hall CODE REQUIREMENTS COMMON: SCALE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAP REFERENCE PROPERTY MAP FORM ENTRY NUMBER SOURCE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) AND/OR HISTORIC: FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUM BER: U.S. Route 20 (Center Ridge Road) 039 DEC RECEIVED GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NOV 11 1974 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES North Ridgeville AVON, OHIO Garford, Arthur I., Residence Frani:lin County Mr. Charles C. Pratt Hon. Charles E. Mosher Hon. Delbert L. Latta Hon. Chalmers P.

Wylie Colunbus, Ohio 43211 Location Perrysburg Kent Lorain County STATE MMott/row 1/2/75 Name Date Entered Portage County Also Notified Elyria North Ridgeville German Village State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Regional Director, Midwest Region Hon. John F. Seiberling Kent Industrial District Interstate 7l at 17th Ave. North Ridgeville City Hall Acting Director The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Wood County Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum