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Congregational Church Of Austinburg

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 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

“Congregational Church Of Austinburg is a historic congregational church on OH 307 in Austinburg, Ohio.”

Wikipedia article Congregational Church Of Austinburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. OH 307, Austinburg, 44010
  • When was it listed? 1978-12-22
  • Category. building
  • Township. Austinburg township
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 78002001 - 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 1,339 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,339 specimens collected within 10 miles of Congregational Church Of Austinburg between 1872 and 1975: 1,169 Animalia, 145 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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 Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.1872L. B. Tuckerman
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Riccia fluitans, not of this specimenRiccia fluitans L.1892E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva

All 1,339 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austinburg, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Flash FloodAustinburg$150,000Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell in an east-west line across Ashtabula County just north of Jefferson. Several flooded basements were reported due to high creek flows, and multiple roads in the area were closed due to high water, including State Route 306 northwest of Jefferson.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A couple streets were blocked by the fallen trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$8,000Several large limbs and power lines downed from severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees along State Route 45.
September 2012HailAustinburg$2,500The public reported quarter size hail in Austinburg.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Lampson Road just west of State Route 45.
May 2013HailAustinburg-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2012HailAustinburg-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was observed.
June 2008HailAustinburg-Nickel size hail was observed.
May 1998HailAustinburg-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodAustinburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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.

Named in the fire insurance atlases

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

From the nomination file

1,421 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

pointed arches follows the eaves line, the facade gable, and CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION RUINS UNALTERED FAIR affect the integrity of the main structure. virtually unaltered. The original tracker-action organ has been projects from the back of the church. consists of three lancets and a large roundel. This is a brick church building in the Gothic revival style. The basic structure of the building is unaltered.Minor alterations include a chimney added to the east side of the A church annex was added in 1932 to the southwest of the of open tracery. The body of the church has five bays articulated with engaged buttresses and lancet windows.A corbel table with CHECK ONE X ALTERED corner, with a broach spire.

A smaller buttressed tower at the DATE northwest corner has a pyramidal roof with an octagonal lantern The facade window contain the original Victorian art glass. building. It is connected by an unobtrusive link and does not There is a large square buttressed entrance tower at the northeast the tops of the towers.An apse-like choir without windows restored and remains in the original position.The original pews in AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Western Reserve of Ohio. after the church in Norfolk, Connecticut, was built in 1824. In 1874 American artist Wallace Nutting, he designed the present church family memorials, were designed by Betsy Cowles, a nationally-known War Gothic architecture and allied arts, its associations in the 1877 1500-1599 PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY region. TRANSPORTATION RELIGION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MILITARY AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION EDUCATION LITERATURE _ENGINEERING well-preserved example of the mid-nineteenth century Gothic revival The Congregational Church is a significant structure in the The First Congregational Church of Austinburg is an excellent and _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT important early educational institution located in Austinburg.

_COMMERCE community, and its place in the history of the Western Reserve _COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCE October of 180l the Congregational Church was organized.The first erected in 1877.The building was dedicated on September 27,1877, donated by teachers and students of the Grand River Academy, an style.It is the third building of the oldest church in the Connecticut _ECONOMICS The first permanent settlers arrived in Austinburg in l8oo.In log structure was erected in 18l0,and a frame building patterned the Rev.John K. Nutting became the pastor. A cousin of the noted _1700-1799 -1600-1699 - INVENTION -1400-1499 INDUSTRY _THEATER having cost $17,000.The stained glass windows,)many of them _1900- educator, abolitionist, and suffragist.

The large facade window was LAW community of Austinburg because of its characteristic post-Civil

The whole case file for this property - 1,421 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 78002001, 12 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
Austin, Eliphalet, House0.3 miles1975
Peck, L. W., House3.9 miles1976
Harpersfield Covered Bridge4.7 miles1975
Giddings, Joshua Reed, Law Office5.0 miles1974
Ashtabula County Courthouse Group5.0 miles1975
Jefferson Town Hall5.1 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashtabula CountyAll 36 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.