BlockFrom the record
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Temple and Masonic Block Buildings
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
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.
Then and now
1913 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
79,933 wordsThe chapter on Claridon Township in The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883 names Caledonia. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In December, 1863, this township was divided by the County Commissioners into two election precincts by a " parallel line running directly through said township east and west, said division line being marked by a township road leading through the center of said township east and west, just south of the residence of the late Jonathan Miles; the portion of thetownship lying north of said road to form the North or Caledonia Pracinct, and that portion lying south of said road the South or Claridon Precinct, of Claridon Township."
Passage source: The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883.
The northern portion of the township received a few settlers at an early date, but the settlements there did not at first increase as rapidly as the one around the village of Claridon. Capt. George Beckley in his reminiscences of the early settlement of the Whetstone Valley, in Marion County, Ohio, written by him and published in 1875, says that when he came to this part of the township with his father and his father's family in 1821, Daniel Wyatt and Thomas Van Horn lived near where Caledonia now stands. In fact, Caledonia is located on a part of the land then owned by them. He also speaks of Jeremiah Colden and Isaiah Mattix as haviug been employed by his father to erect his cabin, and, doubtless, they, too, were located near the same place.
Passage source: The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Claridon Township - 79,933 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
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 |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1913 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
3 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 Public Square and North Water Street Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2023 | |
 | 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 18 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.