Built in 1888 in the Romanesque Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. 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
“The Cedarville Opera House is a historic theater in the village of Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1888 on Main Street in downtown Cedarville, it has been a premier part of community life since its construction.”
Wikipedia article Cedarville Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1888, Romanesque Revival architecture · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.84003697- 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.
In 1848, when an effort was made to form the township of Cedarville, some citizens of Ross objected to the measure, entering a vigorous protest against it, the parties making this protest saying to the commissioners: "Our reasons we will fully set forth in your presence, only adding here that we are not wiUing to have any of our township cut off. wliicl: is ah'eady too small, to gratify the caprice or spleen of any."
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 890 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Cedarville Opera House between 1870 and
1975: 630 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 116 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Cedarville Opera House: 3 past producers, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Cedarville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 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.
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
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From the nomination file
1,720 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
double hung sashes on the second story.There are narrow slits on the fourth floor and The interior has an extremely well preserved opera hall on the second floor.The this doorway which leads to the second story opera hall is a trio of double hung sashes and slanted floors with theater seats still remain. On the first floor are found the Xenia the village of Cedarville in Greene _ unaltered extend above the roofline to frame a fourth floor gable peak that has a round stone On the side of the building which faces south, the most dominant feature is a scallop pattern under a double row of moulding. The front of the building is set off 2300 people since it was constructed in 1888.
(See Diagram I) a slightly projecting four-story tower with an entrance that features double doors and with transoms and flat lintels. Above those windows are three round arched windows with the center one being slightly larger than the flanking ones, a variant of a slightly ruins unexposed turrets, each with four long narrow slits that resemble openings for ancient weaponry, the southwest corners.These offsets create office space for both the village and tongue and groove ticket booths with push-up windows for ticket sales.(See Diagrams each hasa single door and two double hung sashes.Above them are pairs ofwindows style has a broad hip roof with cross gables.The structure has been painted grey five-story square campanile that was once used by the fire department to dry the hoses.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) marks the period in rural Ohio when the highlight of entertainment for small towns floor is one of the best preserved opera hallsin the area. - archeology-prehistoric community planning - landscape architecture. - religion - Industry political center, the first floor has been used continuously as offices for the Cedarville balconies, dressing rooms, slanted floor, theater seats and ticket windows can still Township trustees, and the Cedarville Village council and mayor. It used to also house the waterworks department and the public library. Criteria A and C The stage, box seats, 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84003697, 18 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.
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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