Wellington Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Lorain County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Irregular pattern along Main St. from Kelley St. to W and L E RR, Wellington
When was it listed? May 1979
Category. district
National Register reference number. 79001891 - 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

1904 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Wellington Historic District, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheet covering Wellington Historic District, surveyed 1904

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Wellington Enterprise	1899 to 1900

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wellington Center Historic District	0.4 miles	1974
Mosher House	0.7 miles	1979
Old St. Patrick's Church	0.8 miles	1979
Sprague House	1.2 miles	1979
Gunn House	1.6 miles	1979
Benjamin Wadsworth House	1.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001891 in Record Group 79.
Lorain County	All 121 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.