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New Baltimore Inn

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 81 National Register listings in Stark County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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. 14722 Ravenna Ave., New Baltimore, 44601
  • When was it listed? 1975-12-18
  • Category. building
  • Township. Marlboro township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75001535 - 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Baltimore Inn between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 April 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 October 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 110 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Baltimore Inn between 1890 and 1975: 100 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Allen, John, 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
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Paul MorrisAlliance, near
A photograph of the species Cambarunio iris, not of this specimenCambarunio iris (I.Lea, 1829)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Bromus ciliatus, not of this specimenBromus ciliatus L.1899Selby, A.D.Hartville
A photograph of the species Galium tinctorium, not of this specimenGalium tinctorium (L.) Scop.1899Selby, A.D.Hartville
A photograph of the species Vaccinium corymbosum, not of this specimenVaccinium corymbosum L.1899Selby, A.T.Hartville
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1903not recordedNew Baltimore
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1905Ortmann, Arnold ECanton, Nimishillen Cr(E branch)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ECanton, Nimishillen Cr(E branch)
A photograph of the species Passerina ciris, not of this specimenPasserina ciris (Linnaeus, 1758)1905F. A. W. DeanAlliance
A photograph of the species Euglesa adamsii, not of this specimenEuglesa adamsii (W.Stimpson, 1851)1909Allen, JohnCongress Lake
A photograph of the species Euglesa casertana, not of this specimenEuglesa casertana (Poli, 1791)1909Allen, JohnCongress Lake

All 110 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Baltimore Inn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stark PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stark County

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

1,409 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

frame construction in the Greek Revival style, with a one-story recon- pane sash. The roof is covered with wooden shingles, a modern restor- The sills were reinforced, other, structural and external repairs CONDITION DETERIORATED UNALTERED FAIR XALTERED CHECK ONE The main entrance is a robust Greek Revival frontispiece with restoration under the guidance of professional restoration consultants. front wall and supported on four two-story posts.The horizontal the north elevation.All of the windows have their original six-over-six completed and restoration begun. The one-story wing on the south end XGOOD structed wing.The long elevation of the building faces the road.The ation. The interior has a central stairhall running from front to back.

frieze and the cornices are large.The building has corner pilasters parlor or dance hall.The interior room arrangement and woodwork repair.It is built on a concrete block basement with a field stone portico.The floor of the portico is paved with brick at present; the at one time. The foundation is sandstone. sidelights and an entablature.There is a second door on the north the east elevation with pilasters and cornice, and a side door on are virtually intact.There is a full unfinished attic. veneer.The restored structure will be used as a community center.

is a reproduction of the original section which had decayed beyond matching the porch posts.There is a second floor gallery under the -UNEXPOSED XORIGINAL SITE -RUINS gable pediments of the north and south ends are carried beyond the foundation stones suggest that there may have been a wooden floor side of the five-bay facade. There is also a rear main entrance on DATE This is a two-story early nineteenth century hotel building of Since 1972 the entire building has been in the process of AREAS OF

Statement of significance

The village of New Baltimore was laid out in August, 1831, by John Whitacre, county surveyor, and Levi Haines, the owner and which was a half-finished log building that was later expanded to has not been documented, but the mature Greek Revival style of the By 1846 the village boasted a hattery, an ashery, a foundry, succession of proprietors, including A. L. Beach and later A.

Holebaugh In 1881 New Baltimore's most important industry, a canning 1400-1499 1600-1699 INVENTION ART THEATER 1500-1599 AGRICULTURE LAW SCIENCE RELIGION 1900- PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT LITERATURE MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE _COMMUNICATIONS MUSIC X1800-1899 _EDUCATION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC a harness and saddle shop and two tanneries.It was this prosperity This is an unusually well-preserved and restored early nineteenth century village. _ENGINEERING XARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY _ECONOMICS proprietor.

In the spring of 1832 Samuel Hatcher opened a store, by the railroads.The hotel standing at the crossroads is one of the village.It is also significant because of the strong private preservation and also represents the flourishing life of an industrious nineteenth century inn-hotel for Stark County.It is a significant Greek Revival movement which has rescued the structure from decay since 1972. include a tavern.The date of the present frame building on the site _SCULPTURE factory, was established. But the village's fortunes declined after _PHILOSOPHY -TRANSPORTATION _1700-1799 in the 1870s. doorway and cornices suggests a date no earlier than 1840.

XCOMMERCE COMMUNITY PLANNING building because of its excellent proportions and two-story portico, few structures which conveys the early period of prosperity in the 1900,and this has been attributed to the fact that it was by-passed

The whole case file for this property - 1,409 words, 11 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001535, 11 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
Hartville Hotel4.5 miles1980
Science Hill School5.8 miles1994
Lake Township School6.1 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001535 in Record Group 79.
Stark CountyAll 81 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.
  • 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.