BlockFrom the record
One of 121 National Register listings published here for Lorain County · listed in 2001 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Elyria Downtown-West Avenue Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Listed as. Elyria Downtown--West Avenue Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Roughly bounded by Railroad, East Ave, 5th St. and West Ave., Elyria
- When was it listed? January 2001
- Category. district
- Also known as. Elyria MRA
- National Register reference number. 00001663 - 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.
Then and now
1901 to 1956The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elyria Downtown-West Avenue Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorain Cnty Hwy Dept. Stone Quarry | Stone | Producer |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Andrew's Episcopal Church | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | First United Methodist Church | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | Lorain County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1975 |
 | Elyria Elks Club | under 500 feet | 1979 |
| Frederick Reefy House | under 500 feet | 1979 | |
| George Bryant House | under 500 feet | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001663 in Record Group 79. |
| Lorain County | All 121 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.