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Photograph of Oberlin College
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Oberlin College

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1833. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Lorain County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · built in 1833 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. Tappan Sq., Oberlin
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. site
  • When was it built? 1833
  • National Register reference number. 66000615 - 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 1956

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Oberlin College, surveyed 1956
Topographic sheet covering Oberlin College, surveyed 1901

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United 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.

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
Congregational Church of Christ0.1 miles1974
Downtown Oberlin Historic District0.2 miles2003
Westervelt Hall0.2 miles1974
Frank Jewett House0.2 miles1979
Wilson Bruce Evans House0.3 miles1980
Christ Episcopal Church0.4 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000615 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lorain CountyAll 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.