Decorative drawing: a civic town hall with a clock tower and a portico. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for New Lyme Town Hall

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,494 words across 13 pages, filed in 1975. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 75001317, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AUG 6 1975 AND/OR HISTORIC: 11 - J. William Stanton 3.
CLASSIFICATION (Check One) X Public - In Process - Preservation work - Comments OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: JUN 1 7 1975 039 007 LOCATION Jefferson Site STATE Religious Commercial ACCESSIBLE Unoccupied Transportation OWNERSHIP Educational Structure Government District Private Agricultural AUG Restricted Military CATEGORY Museum REGISTER Entertainment Both CODE Federal Yes: Being Considered Industrial Park Building STATUS Private Residence Scientific CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Ohio COUNTY: South New Lyme New Lyme Township Trustees Public Acquisition: Ashtabula West Jefferson Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS New Lyme Town Hall New Lyme COMMON: TO THE PUBLIC Object STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) NAME PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) DATE Ashtabula County Courthouse NATIONAL ENTRY NUMBER 6000 State Route 46 (Check One) X Good - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed X Unaltered - Moved [X Original Site JUN 1 7 1975 CONDITION interior.
DESCRIPTION Excellent NATIONAL REGISTER The molded entablatures over the openings provide its architec- openings, and become triangular pediments over the two center is no architectural or ornamental detail of consequence on the but distinctive High Victorian Italianate details. The foundation tered. The interior is one large room with a high flat ceiling. This is a one-and-a-half story frame building with modest is sandstone.The building has a plain rectangular shape with openings on the east facade.The building is substantially unal- There is a gallery at the east end overlooking the room.There agabled roof and three bays on the front and side elevations. Fair DESCRIBE THEPRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE tural character.They are horizontal over the main window RECEIVED PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!
- 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Political Other (Specify) - Science Landscape - Sculpture ] Social/Human- ] Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

township, Dodgeville, Brownville and South New Lyme. Although after the Institute was founded, south of the township center SIGNIFICANCE Commerce Engineering Communications Military losophy Architecture Conservation Aboriginal Religion/Phi Prehistoric Literature Education itarian Agriculture Invention township was organized in 18l3 with the name of Lebanon. In 1825 there were three distinct and prosperous communities in the years or so, and hoped to obtain the State Normal School which intersect the Niles-Ashtabula Road. was finally established at Kent.The Institute building became nal architectural detail gives ita distinctive character and clearly establishment of cheese factories and a carriage manufacturer.
education.It flourished and gained some reputation for twenty Doctors Kee and Ely, and it enjoyed success for several years Although this town hall is a very modest building, its exter- it was changed to New Lyme.In the mid-nineteenth century The first important settlement of the township came in l8ll, a public school in 1923. The town hall was erected shortly Industry predominantly agricultural, the years after the Civil War saw the although there was one family there a few years before.The where the Dodgeville-Cherry Valley Road was put through to states that it is a public building.The township was one of amb- Music before the fashion declined.In l878 the New Lyme Institute was founded by Judge William S.Deming asa school for higher itious pretensionsat the time the town hall was built.
In 1852a sizable water cure sanitarium was erected by 1885 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art Ashtabula County Atlas_(Ashtabula, 1905), 101.

The rest of the file

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PKOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Less than one ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES JUN 1 7 1975 FORM PREPARED BY Eric Johannesen, Preservationist CITY OR TOWN: 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law - National Register. 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Officer AUG 4 * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 Degrees DATE LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Seconds LONGITUDE COUNTY Minutes REGISTER Name Ohio STATE 370-376.
CODE ATTEST: NATIONAL Cleveland CORNER Degrees Minutes Seconds Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Title State Historic Preservation 10825 East Boulevard level of significance of this nomination is: NAME AND TITLE: APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Keeper of The National Rogiste History of Ashtabula County (Topeka-Indianapolis, 1924), forth by the National Park Service. Local November 1974 Moina Large, STREET AND NUMBER: 9L1101 Form No.
1A-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED JUL 22 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 According to the Ashtabula County Property Records, the building was constructed in at New South Lyme, the nearest population center one-quarter mile to the south, is e undistinguished by comparison. PAGE setting. There are no significant neighboring structures, and the cluster of buildings New Lyme Town Hall 1885.Its architectural character is unusual because itis in a completely rural AUG61975 DATE ENTEREDAUG AUG 6 1975 Inventory - Send-back - OTHER KEEPER HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL Maps Re-submit HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST Review 7-8-75 Accept BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Working Number6 .17. 75.
1/03 Call or Return Weak and that we should either retunn n 6. 18. 75 further and say that the statement is too WEAK STATEMENT OF AUG INT:2106 -74 Photos Call fer State Entered AUG 7-23-75 Ashtabula Property hew PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES ORWELL QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO 41° 35° 10* DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES UTM 17 4603 620 N ORWELL, OHIO 518 460 E 7.S MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Regional Office: Western Reserve Historical Society 10825 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (216) 721-5722 July 15, 1975 Mr. Ed Smith National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets NW Washington, D. C. 20240 I enclose the additional information on the New Lyme Town Hall (Ashtabula County) which you requested from Jeff Darbee.
I would also like to enter a small protest against the name "Ashtabula County Courthouse Complex, " as "complex" is a modern, post-Freudian term. Why not Group? Sincerely yours, Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 RECEIVED Eric Jdhannesen Ohio Historic Preservation Office Dear Ed: REGISTER NATIONAL JUL 2 2 1975 Date Entered AUG Gustavus Township-Kinsman vicinity Ashtabula County Hon. J. William Stanton INT: 2950-75 8/7/75 Location STATE Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Regional Director, Midwest Region Zanesville Muskingham County Trumbull County South New Lyme Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Dr. Thomas H. Smith 6 1975 Gustavus Center Fistoric Dlstrict Hon. John H. Glenn, Jx. MMott/row 43211 AUG State Historia Preservation Officer Putnan Bistoric District Bon. Robert Taft, Jr.
L NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4 county code: New Lyme Town Hall South New Lyme 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL MITHIN NATIONAL RECISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? 11) WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? C YES. NAME.
- deteriorated Borginal site Vfeatures: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Dexcellent 9O NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown Dunexcavated 2 NOT APPLICABLE-7 - No Access 2 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - POLITICS/GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION -28 @CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY -prehistoric-2 L LAW -16 - RELIGION-22 - SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -1 MEXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE -17 C SCIENCE- 23 -URBAN PLANWING -31 -oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION -8 - HEALTH -27 C MILITARY - 18 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY-13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 DART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION-25 2 functions major alterations : S architectural style(s): @master bullder: * Interior decorator: - date- NIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE!
Midwest ASSOCIATION 8-6-75 Ashtabula CONDITION ACREAGE ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: 007 ENGINEERING-11 EVENTS: CURRENTLY: historic events: vicinity of LOCAL WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: COMMERCE-6 ADMINISTRATOR: LANDSCAPE ARCH.15 SAVED?YES DARCHITECTUREE 3NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP if state who prepared Daltered NAME as it appears on federal register: GNPS REGION: Kof South New Lyme at 6000 NC 46 Zanaltered state Dmoved "first' Ofair (885 'only' 5 LOCATION street & number (II) CONGRESS. DISTRICT Dreconstruoted * landscape architect / gardén designer: @artist: @artisan: @ builder/contractor: NAMES give role & date oity / town YES-Unrestricted engineer: YES-Restricted PRIVATE ORGANIZATION dates of initial construction: SACCESS COUNTY MULTIPLE FEDERAL(agency name) IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?Dye EOUNKNOWN-S