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Photograph of New Lyme Town Hall
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

New Lyme Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 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 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula County.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of South New Lyme at 6000 NC 46, South New Lyme, 44085
  • When was it listed? 1975-08-06
  • Category. building
  • Township. New Lyme township
  • National Register reference number. 75001317 - 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.

The ground it stands on

26 words

This property stands in New Lyme Township. History of Ashtabula County Ohio, published 1924 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on New Lyme Township - 26 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 465 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 465 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Lyme Town Hall between 1872 and 1975: 415 Animalia, 36 Fungi, 14 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Acker, G. G. & Class, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.1872L. B. Tuckerman
Specimen of Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1891Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Geum rivale, not of this specimenGeum rivale L.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Sceptridium dissectum, not of this specimenSceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon1890E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Bacidia luteola, not of this specimenBacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd1891E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cladonia pyxidata, not of this specimenCladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm.1891Bogue, E.E.Orwell; 41.535055 -80.868144
A photograph of the species Lecanora caesiorubella, not of this specimenLecanora caesiorubella subsp. caesiorubella1891E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Physcia stellaris, not of this specimenPhyscia stellaris (L.) Nyl.1891Bogue, E. E.Orwell
Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.1892E. E. BogueOrwell

All 465 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Map coverage status

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

1,494 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.

Statement of significance

township, Dodgeville, Brownville and South New Lyme. Although after the Institute was founded, south of the township center SIGNIFICANCE Commerce Engineering Communications Military losophy Architecture Conservation Aboriginal Religion/Phi Prehistoric Literature Education itarian Agriculture Invention township was organized in 18l3 with the name of Lebanon. In 1825 there were three distinct and prosperous communities in the years or so, and hoped to obtain the State Normal School which intersect the Niles-Ashtabula Road. was finally established at Kent.The Institute building became nal architectural detail gives ita distinctive character and clearly establishment of cheese factories and a carriage manufacturer.

education.It flourished and gained some reputation for twenty Doctors Kee and Ely, and it enjoyed success for several years Although this town hall is a very modest building, its exter- it was changed to New Lyme.In the mid-nineteenth century The first important settlement of the township came in l8ll, a public school in 1923. The town hall was erected shortly Industry predominantly agricultural, the years after the Civil War saw the although there was one family there a few years before.The where the Dodgeville-Cherry Valley Road was put through to states that it is a public building.The township was one of amb- Music before the fashion declined.In l878 the New Lyme Institute was founded by Judge William S.Deming asa school for higher itious pretensionsat the time the town hall was built.

In 1852a sizable water cure sanitarium was erected by 1885 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art Ashtabula County Atlas_(Ashtabula, 1905), 101.

The whole case file for this property - 1,494 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001317, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

3 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
New Lyme Institute0.4 miles1976
Rock Creek School6.7 miles2005
House, Col. Erastus, House6.7 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001317 in Record Group 79.
Ashtabula CountyAll 36 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.
  • 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.