Nomination for South Ridge Schoolhouse

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OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 received JUL | 2 1985 1. Name street & number X vicinity of city, town state Ohio 3. Classification X unoccupied X building(s) _ work in progress - private residence - religious _ in process - yes: unrestricted - government _ scientific X other: vacant 4. Owner of Property Michael B. Rath 4789 Detroit Road Ohio 44035 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. - yes x no August, 1976 _ federal - local 039 both transportation entertainment Lorain code museum Category Accessible educational Status site Elyria industrial Amherst object structure historic Ownership agriculture park district Amherst Township commercial Public Acquisition public Ohio Historic Inventory being considered Lorain County Courthouse (3-82) 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Inventory-Nomination Form South Ridge Schoolhouse Ohio military not for publication Type all entries-complete applicable sections Present Use 2. Location National Register of Historic Places See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms National Park Service NPS Form 10-900 United States Department of the Interior For NPS use only Southwest corner of Route 1l3 and Bechtel Rd. 226 Middle Avenue Xprivate and or common - county - depositary for survey records 093 date Lorain County Regional Planning Commission 7. Description X unaltered X original site X good foundation, rock-faced ashlar sandstone walls and gable roof of slate. elevation windows are paired 2/2 light double hung, wood frame. A brick Condition date ruins deteriorated moved fair excellent Check one suffered no major alterations since it was constructed.

with smooth stone pediment carved with building's construction date.All Its original condition, although it has become deteriorated.The building has several tall shade trees, the South Ridge schoolhouse is a one story, Locatedat the intersectionof Rt.113 and Bethel Road,ona mound with unexposed pyramidal cupola and carved stone corner buttresses are prominent exterior Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

details.The facade features a wood central double doorway with transom light rectangular building three bays long by three bays wide with sandstone Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - archeology-prehistoric community planning _ education X 1800-1899 politics government Builder Architect Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Criteria A & C remaining late nineteenth century link to both the rural one-room schoolhouse Years before Amherst became a village, the township schools were, instructing it's unusually late construction date, for a one-room school, stresses the twentieth century to be seen/ Amherst quarries, some of the finest buildings of Boston, New York, Chicago Amherst were built using "Amherst Blue" sandstone, this schoolhouse being a 1700-1799 1500-1599 1892 1400-1499 1600-1699 commerce transportation conservation economics communications industry engineering archeology-historic Period humanitarian art military theater literature science prehistoric agriculture music sculpture Specific dates quarried sandstone. landscape architecture Xarchitecture exploration/settlement fine example. unknown law exhuberance of ornamentation makes for this schoolhouse to be architecturally 8.

Significance -philosophy The carved stone pediments over the windows and the carved stone doorway religion schoolhouse that has rusticated walls made of sandstone and corner buttresses.

the village while on the out-skirts of the village the one-room schoolhouse 1900- and St.Louis were constructed, as were also the Parliament buildings of replaced an earlier school at an opposite corner of the same intersection and below the surface it was from.A highly prized type of sandstone was called alterations have been made to the interior or exterior of the schoolhouse other (specify) enframement are also not typical details found on a schoolhouse.The invention educational system and to the area's major industry and exportation of locally of the rock and found at the deepest layer of sandstone.Many buildings in 1870's, the production emphasis at the quarries changed from producing schoolhouse had become the center of learning for the pioneers of the area.

After Amherst was incorporated as a village a school district was formed and a Although the South Ridge Schoolhouse is a small example it is nonetheless social/ The South Ridge Schoolhouse is significant because it is the township's last importance and need for this type of educational system in the area. significant to the townships' heritage. grindstone to the production of black stone for building purposes.From the Canada.The sandstone quarried varied in coloration depending on how far the young of Amherstville, as the settlement was called.The one-room "Amherst Blue."The bluish tint came from moisture oxidizing an iron content 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data UT M References - State 11. Form Prepared By Mrs. Vivienne R. Bickley, President, Amherst Historical Society Feb. 14, 1984 telephonellome: 216/988-4234 216/282-3306 Amherst, OH The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: X local 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated State Historic Preservation Officer signature For NPS use only U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 Lorain code county date Easting Business Zone Northing Attest: Entered in the national name/title Ohio Quadrangle name Atlas of Lorain County Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries Acreage of nominated property 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification to the Ohio Historic Preservation Office for their Ohio Historic Inventory Chief of Registration see continuation sheet city or town No.LC 571 PL Lor-107-18 of Lorain County Regional Planning Commission report less than 1 street & number As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register 415 810 21410 organization Amherst Historical Society 356 Elyria Ave. OMB NO. 1024-0018 South Ridge Schoolhouse, Amberst Township, Lorain County, Ohio Page 1 9. Sources History of Lorain County, Ohio by Williams Brothers 10.

Legal Description Situated in the Township of Amherst, County of Lorain, and State of Ohio: And 264.00 feet to a point, said point also being the Northeast corner of land bounds about1.00 acre of land, be the same more or less, but subject to all Permanent Parcel No. 05-00-073-000-008 Inventory-Nomination Form National Park Service legal highways. (3-82) National Register of Historic Places Continuation sheet date entered United States Department of the Interior Thence Northeasterly in the center line of said road a distance of about Item number received Thence Westerly in a Northerly line of Schmauch as aforesaid to a point; Thence Southerly along the center line of Bechtel Road a distance of about Page 495 of Lorain County Deed Records; known as being part of Original Amherst Township Lot.

No.73 bounded and Route 113) and Bechtel Road; conveyed to Arthur W.& Tressie L.Schmauch by deed recorded in Volume 327, Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Milan-Elyria Road (State line of Milan-Eiyria Road; described as follows: A Standard History_of_Lorain County.Ohioby G.F.Wright Vol.1 NPS Form 10-900-a For NPS use only 165.00 feet to the principle place of beginning, and containing within said Thence Northerly along Easterly line of Schmauch as aforesaid to the center WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET JUL 12 1985 Fed. Reg. Date: - REJECT - Federal Agency: - -sample Lrequest Recom./Criteria _ Discipline Date Due: _ _ see continuation sheet _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5.

Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description - excellent Wunaltered - original site -moved ruins resubmission yes alterations/integrity Accessible completeness Ownership Category deteriorated Lorain County unexposed Status clarity appeal Reviewer RETURN ACCEPT Substantive Review: Action: Working No. owner objection National Register boundary selection Present Use Has this property been determined eligible? 85001692 South Ridge Schoolhouse nomination by person or local government Reviewer's comments: summary paragraph Nomination returned for: fair Public Acquisition Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance NR decision NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Check one Condition 8-8-85 good - 8/26/83 OHIO REF relating significance to the resource Other 9. Major Bibliographical References Acreage of nominated property 11.

Form Prepared By State Historic Preservation Officer signature L Maps - Photographs Signed - Date - Builder/Architect context completeness title national local applicable criteria UTM References clarity relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Phone Verbal boundary description and justification summary paragraph 10. Geographical Data justification of areas checked Quadrangle name Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _state 8.

Significance Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Specific dates Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Negatives: Amherst Historical Society Amherst vicinity South Ridge Schoolhouse August 1984 Lorain County, Ohio view 1: facing north on Rte. 113 view 2; facing west Amherst vicinity Negatives: Amherst Historical Society Lorain County, Ohio South Ridge Schoolhouse August 1984 view 3; facing east Amherst vicinity South Ridge Schoolhouse Negatives: Amherst Historical Society August 1984 Lorain County, Ohio Photographer: Vivienne R. Bickley Lorain County, Ohio August 1984 Photographer: Vivienne R.

Bickley view 4: facing south Negatives: Amherst Historical Society South Ridge Schoolhouse Amherst vicinity OHIO - LORAIN CU South Ridge Schoolhouse SOUTH ELY RI UTM: 17 401700 4580240 SCALE 124000 UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OBERLIN, OHIO Lorain County,Ohio 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 June 25, 1985 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief Department of the Interior 1100 L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 Bel mont Miller, Frederick, A., House Lunkenheimer, Frederick, House South Ridge School house 614/466-1500 SOCIETY County Lorain HISTORICAL Cuyahoga Enclosures Champaign Fairfield State Historic Preservation Officer Cleveland Worsted Mills Company Dear Carol: Mechanicsburg Multiple Resource Area Ohio Historic Preservation Office Please contact me if you have any questions.

Stockbridge Apartment Building Dilger Store from the property owners and elected public officials waiving their rights to everything possible to expedite these two nominations. Barnesville Baltimore and Ohio the Stockbridge Apartment Building, Cuyahoga County nominations.Please do New Submissions comment have been received for both the Cleveland Worsted Mills Company and Railroad Depot National Register of Historic Places Franklin Sincerely Natlonal Park Service WRL:bp W. Ray Luce Enclosed are eight new National Register nominations. All of the appropriate