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
“James Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 131 North State Street in Painesville, Ohio. It is a congregation of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio.”
Wikipedia article St. James Episcopal Church (Painesville, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.75001455- 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 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. James Episcopal Church between
2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism
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 1,296 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. James Episcopal Church between 1864 and
1975: 1,034 Animalia, 143 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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
6 workings within 5 miles of St. James Episcopal Church: 4 producers, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. 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
Painesville, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
A thunderstorm downburst downed dozens of trees and damaged several homes. The damage path began near Liberty Street in Painesville and continued east along Prouty Road to near State Route 44 in Concord. A mobile home was crushed by a fallen tree in Concord.
Many large trees downed in Painesville. One tree pierced the roof of a nursing home with branches ending up less than a foot away from an elderly woman laying in bed. Three classic cars were severely damaged when the garage they were in was destroyed by a fallen tree. A brand new sport utility vehicle was also destroyed by a fallen tree. An additional dozen trees were downed to the east of Painesville in North Perry.
Around noon on January 23rd, local officials reported the jam at the mouth of the river at Lake Erie extending as far south (upstream) as the Route 2 bridge near Painesville. The resulting backwater caused flooding of outbuildings along the river on Richmond Street and Ram Island, and flooded the Fairport Harbor Marina. Some storage equipment was flushed out into the lake. The Coast Guard ice cutter was sent in to remove the jam on the night of the 23rd.
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.
From the nomination file
2,481 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
a corbel table. The side (north and south) facades are five bays in There is a single lancet window with tracery at the second story of the This Gothic Revival structure is brick with stone trim and stone foundation. with stone copings mark the tower's corners.An ogee arch framed with double lancet windows on the third. An eight-sided wooden apsidal end of the building.There is a small rose window in the The front facade is symmetrical buttresses line each side facade.T sawn woodwork below is carried up the eaves of the gable in the manner of Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) E] 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Prehistoric STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
by the firm of Heard and Blythe, one of the most important archi- was built for the First Episcopal Parish, which was organized in completed in 1868. Charles Wallace Heard, originally from New York, moved to Painesville to Jonathan Goldsmith, the most renowned architect and builder in his father, Lemuel, were well-known in the Western Reserve area and among others, St. Paul's Church, the Second Presbyterian Church and Building at Lake Erie College and the Jennings Place, both in Painesville. In 1857, Walter Blythe married Heard's daughter, Florida Geneva, and Heard dissolved his partnership with Porter, taking in Blythe instead. Heard died in 1876.
JUL 1 7 1974 1865-1868 Conservation Engineering Military losophy Commerce Architecture Transportation REGISTER NATIONAL Communications SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal itarian Science Theater Agriculture Literature Landscape Education Industry Music Invention Urban Planning RECEIVED Social/Human- Pre-Columbian Political tectural firms in northeastern Ohio in the nineteenth century.It Saint James Episcopal Church is significant because it was designed Western Reserve Academy).The firm of Heard and Porter designed, they designed many of the buildings for Western Reserve College (now Sculpture about 1848 he formed a partnership with Simeon Porter.Porter and work in that city and eventually setup his own carpentry shop there. Religion/Phi.
By the 1840's he was handling his own architectural commissions and the Old Stone Church,all in Cleveland,and the Administration Painesville in 1824.Work on the building was begun in 1865 and Other (Specify) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) daughter. In 1833, Heard moved to Cleveland to supervise Goldsmith's Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001455, 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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