Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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
“Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church at Broad and Mullberry Streets in Lancaster, Ohio.”
Wikipedia article St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 29 National Register listings in Fairfield County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Fairfield County.
National Register reference number.79001831- 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
8 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church between
2012 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Debris and open burning
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Fireworks
1
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 2,663 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church between 1839 and
1975: 1,881 Animalia, 528 Fungi, 239 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
10 workings within 5 miles of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church: 5 past producers, 5 producers.
5 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 97 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 48 thunderstorm wind, 32 hail, 9 flash flood, 4 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Flash flooding along Fetters Run near College Avenue caused damage to the roadway, as well as significant damage to the Lancaster Festival stages, equipment, and vehicles.
Multiple water rescues occurred in the apartment complex along Sater Drive where water was over three feet deep. Additionally, over 30 vehicles were flooded in deep water.
Multiple swift water rescues were needed for animals trapped inside of a building submerged with three to four feet of water on Granville Pike. The building backs up to Fetters Run stream.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the eastern part of the county. There was minor damage to siding and gutters on a few homes on Betz Road, to the west of Lancaster.
A ground survey with assistance form the Fairfield County EMA confirmed a brief and weak tornado touched down in the southwest part of Lancaster.||The survey revealed an eyewitness report of a very weak tornado on the ground near a residence at the west end of Mount Ida Avenue in Lancaster. No damage occurred at this residence. From there the weak tornado moved east through a wheat field with a narrow path of flattened wheat in a convergent pattern. From there the tornado moved between Tarhe Street and Twin Creek Way where minor tree damage occurred, including a couple of uprooted trees and snapped limbs. The tornado appears to have lifted as it approached south Broad Street.
6 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,803 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
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was completed in 1882, is an example of Gothic are similar in composition but have combination brick and sandstone arches in place of the all pointed arch window.with plate tracery and multifoil in the upper section, is placed directly above The tower to the west of the main entrance, the taller of the two, is supported by stepped buttresses pyramidal but stepped out near the top. At the eave line on the front facade, and on both towers The east and west elevations are nearly identical. Each facade, is divided primarily into six The interior is in excellent condition. The stained glass windows, the altar, and wall furnishing CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED DESCRIPTION XALTERED FAIR XEXCELLENT round cuts.
terrace from which additional steps lead to the three entrances. The central entrance is enframed gable sections protrude several feet from the building. The roof structure is then covered in Revival architecture.Constructed in four course American bond brick on an ashlar sandstone by a pointed sandstone arch with small lancet windows on either side.The other two entrances CHECK ONE the main entrance.This arch is surrounded with combinations of sandstone and brick.This facade stone type.All the double doors are made of oak and have stained glass directly above.A large The tower to the east is smaller and contains two smaller pointed arch w indows.The roof is also The facade is composed of two square towers flanking a central entrance.
Stone steps lead to a arch windows in each bay.In the upper story,bays are divided by stepped buttresses and have tall grey-green slate.
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a fine example of nineteenth century Gothic Revival structure in Lancaster, it is an important landmark. The building is located in a primarily residential cornice, beautiful stained glass windows, and large wooden carved doors. in 1816. The present church is the fourth of the congregation. The first, a log structure, was erected in 1819 It was replaced by brick structures in 1832 and 1846. By mid-century, the con- National Register of Historic Places.
1500-1599 1400-1499 LAW ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ECONOMICS EDUCATION COMMUNICATIONS THEATER XARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT TRANSPORTATION SIGNIFICANCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT MILITARY SCIENCE INDUSTRY 1900- LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT RELIGION ENGINEERING gregation had grown considerably and the present structure was constructed in 1882. give the overall polychrome effect.Other exterior details include the finely carved patterns in the these. The caps on the buttresses as well as the whole first story were done in sandstone and help pulpit, for example are extraordinarily rich in fine detail with hand carved pieces highlighted in The interior is also of significance to this building since it has been well maintained. The altar and _CONSERVATION setting.
This area is near the central business district of Lancaster as well, and the corner is well different combinations of brick and sandstone. The most dramatic example of this is shown in the known throughout the town. -1700-1799 Adding to the building's architectural significance is the polychrome effect achieved by the use of gold leaf. The stained glass is also well executed in strong colors and fine details. area. The residences in this area are reflective of the time period and help reinforce the urban -1600-1699 Many of the early settlersdf Fairfield County were Lutherans.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001831, 13 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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