Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 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.
one of 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,190 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Ridge Schoolhouse between 1853 and 1975: 1,083 Animalia, 843 Fungi, 222 Plantae, 17 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Recksecker 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cantharellus minor Peck | 1896 | F.D. Kelsey | Near Oberlin |
 | Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Oberlin. |
 | Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr. | 1896 | Kelsey, Francis Duncan | Kipton |
 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1853 | Baird, Spencer Fullerton | Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1853 | S. Baird | Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls) |
 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
 | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1894 | Dawson, W. L. (William Leon) | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
| Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard | 1894 | Kelsey, F.D. | Lorain County, Ohio | |
| Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1894 | F.D. Kelsey | Oberlin | |
 | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr. | 1894 | F. D. Kelsey |
All 2,190 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Ridge Schoolhouse: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| National Sand & Gravel Co Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Finnegan Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Lorain Cnty Hwy Dept. Stone Quarry | Stone | Producer |
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.
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.
details.The facade features a wood central double doorway with transom light rectangular building three bays long by three bays wide with sandstone Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - archeology-prehistoric community planning _ education X 1800-1899 politics government Builder Architect Statement of
(in one paragraph) Criteria A & C remaining late nineteenth century link to both the rural one-room schoolhouse Years before Amherst became a village, the township schools were, instructing it's unusually late construction date, for a one-room school, stresses the twentieth century to be seen/ Amherst quarries, some of the finest buildings of Boston, New York, Chicago Amherst were built using "Amherst Blue" sandstone, this schoolhouse being a 1700-1799 1500-1599 1892 1400-1499 1600-1699 commerce transportation conservation economics communications industry engineering archeology-historic Period humanitarian art military theater literature science prehistoric agriculture music sculpture Specific dates quarried sandstone.
landscape architecture Xarchitecture exploration/settlement fine example. unknown law exhuberance of ornamentation makes for this schoolhouse to be architecturally 8. Significance -philosophy The carved stone pediments over the windows and the carved stone doorway religion schoolhouse that has rusticated walls made of sandstone and corner buttresses.
the village while on the out-skirts of the village the one-room schoolhouse 1900- and St.Louis were constructed, as were also the Parliament buildings of replaced an earlier school at an opposite corner of the same intersection and below the surface it was from.A highly prized type of sandstone was called alterations have been made to the interior or exterior of the schoolhouse other (specify) enframement are also not typical details found on a schoolhouse.The invention educational system and to the area's major industry and exportation of locally of the rock and found at the deepest layer of sandstone.Many buildings in 1870's, the production emphasis at the quarries changed from producing schoolhouse had become the center of learning for the pioneers of the area.
The whole case file for this property - 1,711 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 85001692, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Central School | 2.9 miles | 1987 |
 | Old Amherst Freight Depot | 2.9 miles | 1978 |
| Old District Nine Schoolhouse | 3.3 miles | 2016 | |
 | Smith, Charles William and Anna, House | 3.3 miles | 1997 |
 | Old Elyria Water Tower | 3.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Amherst Town Hall | 3.3 miles | 1975 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001692 in Record Group 79. |
| Lorain County | All 113 listed properties in this county. |
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