BlockFrom the record
One of 121 National Register listings published here for Lorain County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Broadway Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Broadway, West Erie Ave. from Washington Ave. & Erie Street Bridge, Washington Ave, Reid Ave., West 10th. West 4th, West 5th, West 6th, West 7th, West 8th, and West 9th Sts., Lorain
- When was it listed? March 2022
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100007496 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
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
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Broadway Historic District: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 Plant-National Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Plant | ||
| Lorain Plant - Marathon Steel | Iron | Producer | ||
| Lorain Plant - U.S. Steel | Iron | Producer | ||
| Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Loraine Loading Dock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| National Sand & Gravel Co Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past 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
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gould Block | under 500 feet | 2005 |
 | Eagles Building | under 500 feet | 1986 |
 | Palace Theatre Building | under 500 feet | 1978 |
 | Leonard M. Moore House | under 500 feet | 1993 |
 | Duane Block | 0.1 miles | 1987 |
 | Broadway Building | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007496 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.