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
“South LeRoy Meeting House is a historic church in Leroy Township, Ohio The Greek Revival architecture church was started in 1822 and finished in 1832. Henry Brakeman and sons built the church from local lumber.”
Wikipedia article South LeRoy Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.79001873- 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
2 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of South Leroy Meetinghouse between
2002 and 2020, burning about 21 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
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 1,185 specimens
collected within 10 miles of South Leroy Meetinghouse between 1864 and
1975: 888 Animalia, 175 Plantae, 102 Fungi, 11 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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
1 working within 5 miles of South Leroy Meetinghouse: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Painesville, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
A thunderstorm downburst downed dozens of trees and damaged several homes. The damage path began near Liberty Street in Painesville and continued east along Prouty Road to near State Route 44 in Concord. A mobile home was crushed by a fallen tree in Concord.
Many large trees downed in Painesville. One tree pierced the roof of a nursing home with branches ending up less than a foot away from an elderly woman laying in bed. Three classic cars were severely damaged when the garage they were in was destroyed by a fallen tree. A brand new sport utility vehicle was also destroyed by a fallen tree. An additional dozen trees were downed to the east of Painesville in North Perry.
Around noon on January 23rd, local officials reported the jam at the mouth of the river at Lake Erie extending as far south (upstream) as the Route 2 bridge near Painesville. The resulting backwater caused flooding of outbuildings along the river on Richmond Street and Ram Island, and flooded the Fairport Harbor Marina. Some storage equipment was flushed out into the lake. The Coast Guard ice cutter was sent in to remove the jam on the night of the 23rd.
2 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
1,326 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
ceiling. In 1976 the structure was repaired, cleaned and painted. CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT UNALTERED FAIR RUINS entablature and pilasters. The rectangular windows have double-hung cornice and frieze in the Greek Revival idiom are very plainly The LeRoy Methodist Church is a small wooden frame church there are few notable architectural details.There is a chancel building stands on a random ashlar foundation; there is no cellar. and pegged timbers made of local white wood or poplar.
The The exterior is sheathed with clapboard siding.The simple rectang- CHECK ONE X_GOOD of the building.-The center doorway is framed with a simple the plaster ceiling was covered with a stamped embossed metal smaller panes of 1845.There is a small rectangular window in ular building has a gable roof;it never had a steeple.The classical executed, and there are small cornice returns at the gable ends measuring 36 feet by46 feet.Its structure consists ofmortised platform about eight inches high.Around the turn of the century the attic gable at each end of the building. An external chimney was added later on the west side of the building.On the interior, DATE sash of four large panes over two;undoubtedly these replaced AREAS OF
Statement of significance
to the history of Geauga and Lake Counties, the Methodist Church by Henry Brakeman, and the church was constructed by local builders. on the premises.
Besides church services, weddings and funerals, and musical recitals were also held in the building, as it was the house, with much the same conditions as the original deed from 1845 COMMERCE 1800-1899 LAW ART ECONOMICS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ENGINEERING PERIOD ARCHITECTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE PREHISTORIC INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION THEATER LITERATURE SCIENCE 1900- SCULPTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SIGNIFICANCE INVENTION MILITARY The deed giving the property to the Methodist Church was recorded in _1500-1599 _COMMUNICATIONS Leroy Township Trustees for continued use as a community meeting 1852,stating that the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church and _1700-1799 _1600-1699 The LeRoy Methodist Church is a typical small rural church from the Greek Revival period.It was used as a community meeting house at in 1802.
The Township government was established in 1820. According LeRoy is a rural, sparsely populated township which was first settled historic public building in the township. EDUCATION _1400-1499 from 1898 to 194l.Class plays, Christmas programs, social events only large meeting hall in the township. -CONSERVATION erected its building in 1845 at a cost of $l,000.The lot was provided - MUSIC -COMMUNITY.PLANNING the meeting house was used for the LeRoy District School graduations In 1975 the church building was given by the Methodist Church to the Esquire Brakeman. Cleaning, painting, and stabilizing the structure ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC in 1976 were made possible by volunteer labor and local donations. least since 1898,and is recognized locally as the only significant
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001873, 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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