Kilpi Hall

additions, and will probably be removed in the restoration. The entrance arch is ornamented with voussoirs executed in wood, and leads to double raised platform, and the facade windows open on to this platform. rooms and offices, and more recently, a second-story resident's apartment. structure for the original cupola. CONDITION MOVED and the dormer gables with their rows of small diamond-paned windows. FAIR This is a two-and-a-half story building of wooden frame construction. groove wainscoting and the ceiling also consists of wooden tongue-and-groove The east facade and north (lakeside) elevation have five window openings entrance, the segmental arch of the three-part, second-story facade window, horizontal siding has been covered with imitation brick asphalt sheathing, paneled doors.

but this will be removed in a projected restoration. The original siding Opening off the halls are various rooms formerly used for reading hipped roof, but it was removed for structural reasons. The original _UNALTERED In the attic the roof trusswork can be seen, as well as the supporting hints of architectural style are vaguely Queen Anne; these include the arched _DETERIORATED sion of the west (rear) elevation houses an auditorium stage.In the southeast end contains sets of wings and drops from old dramatic productions.The The main floor hall is an auditorium-gymnasium.The stage on the west corner of the cross there is a covered entrance stoop.At the northeast and DATE. _UNEXPOSED may be seen in the gables.

_RUINS -GOOD Originally there was a large platform and cupola at the center of the steep each, the south and west three and four respectively. A large square exten- northwest corners there are cellar "doghouse" entrances. These are later construction. The second-story hall is oriented to the east.

ing adaptation of a common form of the period, that of a public school or Finnish immigrants first came to Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, from Penn- County. The greatest Finnish population in Conneaut was probably around 500 in the years 1902-1907. experiment had begun in Finland earlier, the American movement seems oath of abstinence. The oath was enforced by threatened dismissal, but 1899 1400-1499 COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC a dramatic society and gymnastic hall. BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD AGRICULTURE LAW ART SIGNIFICANCE group for use as a community center. MILITARY TRANSPORTATION PHILOSOPHY THEATER even a domestic building, for a specific institutional purpose.

The building was owned by the original Kilpi Temperance Society Finnish social and institutional life in the Western Reserve was largely MUSIC LITERATURE seven other cities in northeastern Ohio.The Conneaut society was organized _PREHISTORIC the temperance society also served fraternal, social and cultural functions. by dock workers serving the iron ore trade on the lakes.The first perm- until the present. It is now being acquired by a community cultural _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT health care;it provided a library and newspaper reading room;it housed Finnish temperance societies of the late nineteenth century in the northern centered in the organized temperance movement.Although the prohibition enough to permit the construction of Kilpi Hall.