BlockBefore
Photograph of Northfield Town Hall
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Northfield Town Hall

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1909 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 9546 Brandywine Rd., Northfield, 44067
  • When was it listed? 2000-08-10
  • Category. building
  • Township. Northfield Center township
  • When was it built? 1909
  • National Register reference number. 00000962 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Northfield Town Hall between 1993 and 2006, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
5 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkGOOD
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 702 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 702 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northfield Town Hall between 1877 and 1973: 676 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, Adams J. M. R., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)1928not recordedBrandywine Brook, Hudson, North America
Specimen of Lycopodium lucidulum Michx.Lycopodium lucidulum Michx.1973George T. Jones1 mile west of Everett, Richfield Township
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891892Beryl HodgeHudson
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1893not recordedPeninsula
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1897Ashcroft, G.B.Western Reserve; Berea
A photograph of the species Xylaria polymorpha, not of this specimenXylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev.1897Read M.Hudson

All 702 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northfield, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNorthfield$60,000Dispatch reported multiple trees down from Northfield to Twinsburg. First Energy reported 6000 customers lost power.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNorthfield$40,000Many trees downed across the northern portion of the county. A large tree in downtown Twinsburg landed on a set of bleachers and destroyed them. Two trees fell on homes in Macedonia and two trucks in Macedonia was also severely damaged by fallen trees. Five trees were downed in Northfield.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNorthfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down. The tree partially landed on a house.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNorthfield$5,000Trees were downed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNorthfield$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindNorthfield-Tree downed onto house at 185 Rosewood Avenue in Macedonia. Time estimated via radar.
May 2011HailNorthfield-Penny sized hail was observed.
August 2011HailNorthfield-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2010HailNorthfield-Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2001Funnel CloudNorthfield-A funnel cloud was reported at Northfield Center. No damage was reported.
September 1994HailNorthfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Summit County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

4,871 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

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.

The whole case file for this property - 4,871 words, 29 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 00000962, 29 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Palmer House0.1 miles1974
McKisson, Robert, House1.4 miles1974
Lock No. 342.1 miles1979
Lock No. 352.2 miles1979
Wolcott House2.7 miles1988
Lock No. 332.8 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000962 in Record Group 79.
Summit CountyAll 137 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.