Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 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.
one of 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,464 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Ridgeville City Hall between 1853 and 1975: 1,124 Animalia, 270 Fungi, 58 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Oberlin. |
 | Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Black River, east of Oberlin. |
 | Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni | 1899 | A. E. Ricksecker | Lorain County. |
 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1853 | Baird, Spencer Fullerton | Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1853 | S. Baird | Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls) |
 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
| Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard | 1894 | Kelsey, F.D. | Lorain County, Ohio | |
 | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr. | 1894 | F. D. Kelsey | |
| Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA | |
| Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
All 1,464 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Ridgeville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $125,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled eight utility poles and several trees in North Ridgeville. Scattered power outages were reported throughout the area. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs in North Ridgeville knocking out power to as many as 2,000 customers. Limbs fell on a car on Harrison Street briefly trapping the driver. There were no injuries. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and telephone poles. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $15,000 | The media reported trees and powerlines down in North Ridgeville. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and several large limbs. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | North Ridgeville | $2,000 | Lear Nagle north of Chestnut Ridge. Rd. closed due to creek flooding. On Mill Creek Lane two vehicles became submerged in several feet of water with rescues needed. The observed 48 hr rainfall totals were 3.21 in Elyria. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed one tree. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a four foot diameter tree. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | A trained spotter recorded a peak straight-line convective wind gust of 74-mph on their personal weather station in North Ridgeville. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Several trees downed on the southwest side of North Ridgeville. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Trained spotter measured a 62-mph peak straight-line wind gust from a line of thunderstorms about two-miles northeast of North Ridgeville. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Tree limbs downed in North Ridgeville. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Healthy tree split down the middle in North Ridgeville. |
| May 2021 | Flood | North Ridgeville | - | Flooding caused havoc on several roads in North Ridgeville. Lear Nagle Road was closed north of Chestnut Ridge Road because of creeks overflowing their banks. Bainbridge Rd. was closed between Root and SR 83. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Large tree limbs down in North Ridgeville. |
| May 2012 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| May 2010 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Quarter size hail was observed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Nickel size hail was observed. |
| May 2008 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| June 2006 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree which landed on and destroyed a garage. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Ridgeville | - | Several trees were downed. |
| July 1998 | Hail | North Ridgeville | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
it is not part of a historic district. soirs are of stone and inscribed with the date 1882".Above the PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Science STATEMENT OF
sandstone quarrying, cheese factories, and a chair factory township business, with a second floor auditorium for social 1882 events. Conservation Transportation SIGNIFICANCE Military Commerce losophy Engineering Architecture Communications Aboriginal Art Theater itarian Literature Agriculture chief nineteenth century industries in Ridgeville were saw mills, Music Industry Landscape special geographical interest. Political This town hall is primarily significant as an excellent Invention Township do not follow the usual grid pattern of many other Sculpture Education which was productive and successful in the last quarter of the Western Reserve townships.This is because they run along its stylistic features, it represents a cultural lag compared built twenty years earlier.
example of a small public building in a conservative Italianate The first settlers from Waterbury, Connecticut, arrived in tower, and the alternating stone voussoirs of the arches. Other- Wellington, for example. Virtually the only concessions to the Social/Human- oldest in the county.It was originally called Rootstown after The Town Hall was built in 1882 as a place to conduct Ephraim Root, Connecticut Land Company surveyor. The wise the building differsin no essential respects from others 1809-1810,and the township was organized in 1813,the second Religion/Phi- taste of its actual date are the domical mansard roof of the It can be seen on the map that the roads of Ridgeville Because of the building's late date in relation to above the level of the lake.
idiom for its date, but it is also the seat of a township of a series of ridges, from southwest to northeast, formed by successive levels of the receding glacial lake which is now Lake Erie.The Town Hall stands on Center Ridge,150 feet to the Moorish Victorian fantasy which was being built in nearby The pattern of settlement of the township was not unusual.
The whole case file for this property - 1,479 words, 9 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001553, 9 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cahoon, Samuel C., House | 1.7 miles | 1978 |
 | Wilson--Falkner--Baldauf House | 3.6 miles | 2010 |
 | Cahoon, Wilbur, House | 4.1 miles | 1978 |
 | New York Central Freight House | 4.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Garfield, Milton, House | 4.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Williams, Henry Harrison, House | 4.3 miles | 1978 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001553 in Record Group 79. |
| Lorain County | All 113 listed properties in this county. |
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