Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.76001365- 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.
Then and now
1906 to 1996
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19061996
Fires near this property
2 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kilpi Hall
between 2014 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning
2
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 310 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Kilpi Hall between 1880 and 1975: 306 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 1 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, T.F., 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Kilpi Hall: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Conneaut, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 waterspout.
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 band of showers and thunderstorms enhanced by the warm waters of Lake Erie moved into Conneaut on the morning of the 22nd, producing significant flash flooding along the lakeshore. Doppler radar estimated between 3.5 and 5 inches of rain fell throughout the city of Conneaut in less than 1.5 hours. Major street flooding occurred, with semi trucks stranded and numerous underpasses flooded. Many structures were inundated, including a restaurant on Broad Street.
Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to a rapid rise in rivers and streams across Ashtabula County. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 2.25 fell on top of six to ten inches of heavy snow. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Small streams and creeks came out of banks flooding farmland, roads, and a few homes.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001365, 11 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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