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Photograph of Liberty G. Raymond Tavern and Barn
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Raymond, Liberty G., Tavern and Barn

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 32 National Register listings in Trumbull County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Trumbull 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. OH 87 and Dennison-Ashtabula Rd., Kenilworth, 44450
  • When was it listed? 1975-06-20
  • Category. building
  • Township. Greene township
  • National Register reference number. 75001543 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 176 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 176 specimens collected within 10 miles of Raymond, Liberty G., Tavern and Barn between 1893 and 1975: 166 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bednarik, K. (Karl), CAROOTS, JAMES 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 Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Erigeron annuus, not of this specimenErigeron annuus (L.) Pers.1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus var. strigosus1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates sylvaticus, not of this specimenLithobates sylvaticus (LeConte, 1825)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Regina septemvittata, not of this specimenRegina septemvittata (Say, 1825)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data

All 176 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenilworth, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2012Thunderstorm WindKenilworth$35,000County dispatch reported trees down in Greene Township. A barn was also destroyed with four to five telephone poles and two additional trees down near Route 193 and Route 87.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKenilworth$25,000Thunderstorm winds damaged two homes in Greene Township near Kenilworth. Several trees were also knocked down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKenilworth-Trees uprooted on the NNE side of Greene.
June 2022HailKenilworth-Quarter-size hail in Greene Township.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKenilworth-Thunderstorm winds downed several large limbs.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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

2,608 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

Fair of fluted pilasters and architraves, with paneled corner blocks, posts and Italianate brackets.Originally there was a veranda across similar to the design in Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: - 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) - Education - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Industry - Invention - Science - Landscape - Literature STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

The house, originally built in 1832, was purchased by Liberty G. Raymond, who had come to Warren, Ohio, from the house, adding the main block with the hipped roof. At the from Cleveland to Meadville, Pennsylvania. Kenilworth was midway between Cleveland and Meadville, and the coaches 1874 Atlas, but Raymond's granddaughter states that it was northeast room the ladies' parlor.

1860-1880 Conservation Engineering Commerce Architecture losophy SIGNIFICANCE Communications Religion/Phi Art Transportation Aboriginal Agriculture Music Theater itarian Military broad patterns of regional history in Northeastern Ohio, and Massachusetts and then moved to Greene.He was a contractor Sculpture Political Social/Human- only a coach stop, and that guests were not kept nor were meals In any case, both the house and the barn are associated itutions of Greene Township for almost twenty years.From 1860 for keeping the horses and servicing the coaches on the route with events that have made a significant contribution to the states that Raymond made the house into a very commodious possess a remarkable degree of feeling and association.

served.The southeast room was the men's tavern, and the stopped to change horses at Raymond's Tavern.One account horses for the next stage. The Raymond Tavern was one of the most important inst- to 1880 it was a coach tavern, and the barn was used for fresh AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) and well-arranged hotel,"and it is identified as a Hotel in the and builder and operated his own sawmill.Raymond "rebuilt same time he enlarged the barn.In 1860 Raymond contracted Combination Atlas Map of Trumbull County (Chicago, 1874), 24. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES CODE | COUNTY

The whole case file for this property - 2,608 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001543, 16 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Greene Township Center1.2 miles1978
Brownwood6.1 miles1971
Brown, Charles, Gothic Cottage6.8 miles1975
Brown-Wing House7.1 miles1975
Allen, Dr. Peter, House7.5 miles1971
Darrow, Clarence, Octagon House8.0 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001543 in Record Group 79.
Trumbull CountyAll 32 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.
  • 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.