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.
From the record
“The Arlington Avenue Historic District is a historic district in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. It contained 38 contributing buildings when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Arlington Avenue Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 59 National Register listings in Mahoning County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
National Register reference number.74001565- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Youngstown city, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
Samuel Argat. a young English sea captain from Virginia, who early in 161 3 was cruising off the coast of Maine, learning from the Indians of the presence of the French in that vicinity, attacked and destroyed the settlement of St. Sauveur. Soon after, on a second expediliou made under the authority of Sir Thomas Dale, governor of Virginia, he destroyed also that of Port Royal.
Viewed as a whole, the surface of Mahoning county mny be regarded as an undulating plain, sloping gentlv to the north, its southern litie running on or rear the divide lief ween the waters of the Mahoning- on the north and the Little Heaver on the south, and having an altitude of from three to five 1 utidred feet above the valleys of the n< rth border. Topographically, the county forms a portion of the highlands of the southern rim of the lake basin, but since the rim is cut through by the deep gorge oi the Mahoning, the drainage, though locally northward, is all earned through that channel into the Ohio. Hut little of the surface is even locally level, but consists of an alternation of broad valleys of excavation, separated by rounded bills and table j lands, with gentle slopes. It is all varied and I picturesque, while at the same time it is well f adapted for agricultural purposes, and is now very generally in a high state of cultivation. The soil is in some places derived from the decomposition of the underlying rocks; but it, for the most part, rests ujjon a sheet of drift material, for the county lies within the drift area, though reaching its margin on the south. The general slope of the surface, ami part of the local erosion, seem to have Ix'cn produced by the southern extension of a tongue or lolxr of the great glacier, which, moving from the north, excavated the low country that lies between the highlands of Geauga and Portage on the west and those of Pennsylvania on the east. By this agent the northern out-crop of rocks which underlies the county have !>een ground away, and a large amount of material transported southward from its place of origin. As the eroded rocks were largely sandstone and conglomerate, much of the transported material is sand and gravel. Glacial marks are seen on the exposed surfaces of the harder rocks in nearly all parts of the county, and they are especially noticeable on the sandstone ledges on the northeast side of the Mahoning in Youngstown and Poland and on the higher strata of the same character in the southern part of Canfield and Ellsworth. The direction of the glacial scratches is nearly north and south; but they are sometimes reflected by local impediments a few degrees either east or west.
Coa! N'ii One, "I'll is is the scam which furnishes the famous Brier Hill, or Mahoning coal, so extensively used for irmi smelting and widely distributed through the markets of the northwest. It is the sanie seam that is sn largely worked in western Pennsylvania. The true position of this coal scam ts from twenty In fifty feet above tin- conglomerate. The quality of the Mahoning \ alley coal is so excellent and the coal field lies so near the (ireat Lakes market that it has become the lusis of an extensive commerce, and the mainsjiring of the most iiii]>oi t.uit iron industry of the West. The first development of coal mining in the valley of the Mahoning took place at the old Brier Hill and ("rah Creek mines near the north line of Youngstown. The search for coal has radiated from this center m every direction, and as a consequence the country about Youngstown has been more thoroughly explored than any other part of the county. A number of extensive basins have been discovered here, and several of them have U-en extensively worked
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Arlington Avenue District between
2010 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Debris and open burning
6
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 296 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Arlington Avenue District between 1853 and
1974: 212 Animalia, 78 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Daugherty, B Withers, B. West 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 Arlington Avenue District: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Youngstown, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado.
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.
A tornado touched down just southwest of the Mahoning River between Gibson and Poland Avenues on the northeast side of Youngstown. The tornado then skipped northeast for approximately eight miles before dissipating on the eastern edge of the city just south of the Trumbull County border. The damage path was 50 to 100 yards in width and was intermittent in nature. Ten businesses and around 80 homes were damaged by the tornado. One business was destroyed, and of the 80 homes, 60 had major damage. Two railroad cars were overturned and hundreds of trees were toppled along the damage path.
Thunderstorm winds caused some damage in the City of Youngstown. Four tents were toppled at a festival in the downtown area resulting in a few minor injuries. A church on Oakhill Avenue lost a large section of roofing. Many trees and large trees limbs were downed across the city as well.
Thunderstorm winds downed many trees. A building at Youngstown State University suffered damage when a 70 foot by 90 foot section of roof was peeled off. Awnings on two houses were also blown off.
Numerous reports of hail ranging from penny to quarter size were observed by trained spotters between Youngstown and Boardman. A trained spotter also estimated wind gusts around 65 mph in Boardman at 14:30 EST.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
spindles, cylindrical and polygonal towers, and various types of ted as double houses, the remainder being single. Some of the MAY 1 3 1974 CONDITION REGISTER RECEIVED Moved double houses have separate porches, some a common veranda. planning of the total clearance type. two are exactly identical.The most characteristic features are facade, giving the house the appearance of being octagonal, although Many of the houses have been poorly maintained and infrequently all are representative of the Queen Anne-related styles common in arched.The use of classical ornamental detail characteristic of the includes twenty-nine dwellings.
All are of frame construction, and this is not the case.Nine of the houses were designed and construc- painted, but few have been seriously altered in external structure. Fair The general condition of the district is from good to fair. the intervals of the arcade are variously pointed, round and flat- The most unusual veranda design is at No.312.It fronts a double the 1880's and 1890's.There is great variety in the design and no (Check One) X Good which has square bays placed on the diagonal at the corners of the Queen Anne style is well-handled and in good scale with the build- The neighborhood is presently occupied by working people of low economic status.
The area is tentatively threatened by urban renewal Excellent NATIONAL large projecting gables, porches and verandas with turned posts and This is a district comprising one block of Arlington Avenue, and house of unequal parts.To fit the irregular spacing of the posts, exterior siding. The most unusual house is the one at No. 359, - Pre-Columbian: - 18th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Theater STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
not especially notable or associated with significant events, the century of growth following the Civil War, during which Youngstown's had seen the introduction of electric street lights, electric street MAY 1 3 1974 1890-1900 SIGNIFICANCE Architecture Commerce Conservation Engineering Military losophy Science Transportation decade. Aboriginal REGISTER distinction. Communications NATIONAL Education Landscape Agriculture Literature itarian Music RECEIVED Political Industry Sculpture Invention Arlington Avenue would not be unusual or rare.On the near west Social/Human- results in great visual interest, and creates a homogeneous and Religion/Phi- chief industry was iron manufacture.The population had grown from houses embody the distinctive characteristics of a midwestem and larger centers.
In the context of a larger metropolitan area, prosperity, and preceded a severe panic and depression in the years and Arlington Avenue, subdivided in 1890,was built up during this ing survivals of its period.The variety of designs on the street Arlington Avenue is primarily significant asa representative dis- It was to be expected that the general trend of architectural side of Youngstown, however, this street is one of the best remain- cars and paved streets.The years before 1892 were ones of relative style showed somewhat of a time lag in a midwestern steel town. trict ofa certain architectural type.Although the inhabitants were The development of such a street was the product of a quarter street of middle class homes of good design in the 1890's.
The Queen Anne style reached its height in the 1880's in the East around 8,000 in 1870 to over 33,000 in 1890.The decade of the1880s PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art to supplant iron production in 1892) gave work to hundreds of men, 1892-1895.In spite of this, the new steel plant(steel had just begun
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001565, 18 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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