Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1972. 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.
From the record
one of 81 National Register listings in Stark County · listed in 1972 · category: District.
National Register reference number.72001044- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mount Union College District between
2020 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 76 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Mount Union College District between 1890 and
1975: 72 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bryan, J. M., Collector(s): William D. Stull 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Mount Union College District: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Alliance, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage in Alliance and adjacent Washington Township. Dozens of trees were downed in these areas. A house just south of Alliance was heavily damaged by a fallen tree. Several barns in Washington Township lost portions of roof and a couple mobile homes were also damaged.
Thunderstorm winds downed many trees south of Alliance. A large pole building sustained considerable damage and a home nearby was damaged by a fallen tree. Scattered power outages were reported in the area.
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.
From the nomination file
1,619 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
dormitory, the building measures 135' x 47'. The exterior design con- the southeast corner of the building and the balcony-level indoor building, it is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Large round-arched windows at the floor level are topped by pairs of floor. and four corner battlemented towers.The central tower on the south The cylindrical tower which supported an observatory dome at main body of the building is Romanesque in style.There are triple round- arched lancet windows.The hipped roof has gabled projections PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) X 19th Century SIGMIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) X Other (Specify) - Sculpture - Social/Human- - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
Chartered in 1858, Mount Union College was the outgrowth of a "Select be no discrimination because of race, sex or position. Chapman and Miller Halls were both designed by Simeon Porter, one of Cleveland firm of Heard and Porter, Porter was the builder of the Chapman Hall, built in 1862-1864, is the only remaining Ohio college The first (and for many years, the only) Mount Union College academic building, its architectural design is unique combination of features of the pre-Civil War styles, sith the Romanesque block, Gothic turrets, Morgan Gymnasium, built in 1890-1891, is an excellent example of the Pliny Marsh, Mount Union's second president and a great advocate of principal donor, Thomas R.
Morgan, Sr., the gymnasium was the home of The three buildings in the Mount Union College District illustrate the 1862-1891 sport Commerce Architecture Communications SIGNIFICANCE Education Conservation Landscape losophy inter-collegiate Engineering Historic Art Literature Science Religion/Phi itarian Pre-Columbian Agriculture Music Invention Military the original manuscript specifications in the architect's handwriting. northeastern Ohio's most noted nineteenth century architects.Of the and experimental subjects would parallel the humanities and there would design in Alliance.
Union College building constructed during the presidency of Tamerlane a need for a new coeducational institution in the West where science Urban Planning Industry late Colonial or Greek Revival cupolas, and the Italianate bracketed and brick segmental arches over the windows.It was built in 1866. Miller Hall is a simple rectangular block with a distinctive design Western Reserve College buildings in Hudson as well as a number of College team was formed in 1896,but no collegiate competition developed public school buildings in Cleveland. Political TE(S) (It Applicable and Known) and Root, designed the building.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 72001044, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
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