BlockFrom the record
One of 121 National Register listings published here for Lorain County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wellington Center Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- Address. Main St. and Herrick Ave., Wellington
- When was it listed? November 1974
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 74001556 - 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
1904 to 1956The ground this property stands on, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Wellington Enterprise | 1899 to 1900 |
Maps showing this location
6 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.
- 1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1979 | |
 | Old St. Patrick's Church | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Mosher House | 1.0 miles | 1979 |
 | Sprague House | 1.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Gunn House | 1.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Benjamin Wadsworth House | 2.2 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001556 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.