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one of 14 National Register listings in Marion County · listed in 2021 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Marion County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Temple and Masonic Block Buildings
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 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.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 107, 109, 111, and 127 East Marion St., Caledonia, 43314
- When was it listed? 2021-03-19
- Category. building
- Township. Claridon township
- National Register reference number. 100006261 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 72 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 72 specimens collected within 10 miles of Temple and Masonic Block Buildings between 1837 and 1969: 59 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Brown, H P, Collector(s): D. W. Kohlhorst 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Sagittaria latifolia Willd. | 1837 | Frank B | |
 | Sicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius | 1837 | Frank B | in civitatate Ohio |
 | Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965 | 1964 | J. Peacock | [Not Stated] |
 | Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. | 1919 | W. J. Campbell | Edison |
 | Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Marion |
 | Helminthosporium teres Sacc. | 1919 | MCFARLAND F. T. | Marion |
 | Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton | 1919 | MCFARLAND F. T. | Marion |
 | Photinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767) | 1923 | not recorded | Marion |
 | Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819 | 1923 | Lyle D. Miller | Claridon, Lake Aquilla |
 | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1924 | Lyle D. Miller | Claridon |
 | Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855) | 1942 | Rausch, R. (Robert) | 1/2 mi. S of Marion, Marion Twp., Marion Co., Ohio |
 | Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) | 1942 | Rausch, R. (Robert) | Pennsylvania Ave. & Indiana Ave., Marion, Marion Co., Ohio |
All 72 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 Temple and Masonic Block Buildings: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonia Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | $125,000 | A thunderstorm downburst caused significant damage in and around Caledonia. An older brick building collapsed from the winds. A nearby barn lost it's roof and dozens of trees were toppled. Many power lines were knocked down resulting in scattered power outages. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees. One of the trees land on a car and crushed it. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs in the Caledonia area. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | $6,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and several large limbs. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Caledonia | $2,000 | Nickel size hail was observed. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Caledonia | $2,000 | Dime size hail was observed. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed one tree. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caledonia | - | Several trees downed in Caledonia, one of which fell onto a house. Emergency manager didn't note any damage to house. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Caledonia | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Caledonia | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Caledonia | - | no account filed |
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.
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Caledonia Bowstring Bridge | 0.6 miles | 1978 |
| Marion Women's Club Home | 7.6 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006261 in Record Group 79. |
| Marion County | All 14 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.