Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
From the record
One of 95 National Register listings published here for Stark County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.79001954- 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
1914 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 11 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
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 369 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home between 1836 and 1975: 325 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.M. Rogers, Anson A. Hinkley, 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
4 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
Navarre, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail.
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.
The fire department reported 8 to 10 trees either sheared or uprooted when thunderstorms came through in the vicinity of Pidgeon Run Avenue Southwest and Poorman Street southwest in Navarre.
Multiple trees down in Navarre. Several dozen pine trees snapped or uprooted at the corner of Beth Avenue and Seeman Street SW in Bethlehem Township (i.e. 2 miles southeast of Navarre).
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
doorway opening in the half story of the rear wall has also been filled with brick.A sash, except for the top half story which retains 6/6 double hung sash.Several windows of the gable end is the store front with a large plate-glass window with transom Italianate style porch was added to one side elevation. flanking either side of a central entrance.A curved signboard with J.D.Define is A small brick wing was added at the rear about the turn-of-the-century.A wooden The Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home is a 2 1/2 story rectangular brick building used for loading supplies into a top floor storage area.
slip sills.Most of the original window sash has been replaced with 2/2 double hung 3 bays on the gable end wall and 5 bays across the side elevation.A primary feature A short distance to the south of the Store is the path of the Ohio and Erie Canal, X altered slight wooden projection out from the roof peak indicates that this doorway was probably and a doorway on the first story of the side elevation have been bricked up.A large 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) stylistic features, the molded raking cornice and molded entablature with gable end returns, in the community, most of which have since disappeared. Navarre was a major wheat shipping elevators, 11 hotels, and 10 dry goods stores which operated in the community. With invaluable link to the commercial life of the canal era in the village.
1800-1899 1400-1499 1700-1799 economics 1500-1599 conservation 1600-1699 engineering education industry humanitarian invention Builder/Architect Specific dates exploration/settlement 1900- the construction of competing railroads and the consequential reduction of canal commerce, The Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home is significant as the embodiment of the distinctive successfully represented the defendent in a farm ownership suit.This was supposedly of the village.
characteristics of the Greek Revival style of architecture in Ohio and as a repre- lively commercial center during the antebellum era.This was reflected in the 12 is the son of an Italian immigrant who came to Navarre in 1874 to work in the Massillon literature known as Italy Hill so that the property is also representative of the immigrant history early 2oth century when it was acquired by James D.Define, the present owner.Define The Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home was constructed in 1850 a short distance north of the McKinley's first law suit.The store operated as the Loew& Son grocery into the the justice of the peace in Navarre for 24 years.While Loew owned the property it was - - communications military - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - landscape architecture.
_ religion coal fields. The neighborhood of Navarre where the Store is located, in fact, became it an impressive example of a Greek Revival commercial structure.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001954, 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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