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Southington Local School District Campus Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Trumbull County Ohio County and State x A B Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Education C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Period of Significance 1906-1960 D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates 1906, 1907, 1910, 1928-1929, 1952, 1956-57 Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply) Property is: Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above) A B C D E F G owed by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. removed from its original location. a birthplace or grave. a cemetery. a reconstructed building, object, or structure. a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Alfred A. Dole, architect (Chalker Building) Shoof and Hawley, builders (Chalker Building, Elementary Building) A. M. Allen and Company (1927-1928 Elementary) Period of Significance (justification) The period of significance begins at the time of construction of the Chalker Building and continues to the generally accepted 50-year cut off date. Criteria Consideratons (explanation, if necessary) N/A 10
Southington Local School District Campus Name of Property Trumbull County Ohio County and State Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (provide a summary paragraph that includes level of signficance and applicable criteria) The Southington Local School Campus is eligible for National Register listing under Criteria A, at the local level, due to its association with the development and evolution of the township’s educational system. This development has made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Southington’s history. The centralization of scattered one-room primary schools and addition of a high school curriculum initialized a fundamental shift in both the educational process and social development within the township. Prior to this, township youth who sought post-primary education were forced to obtain it outside of the community. Social development of the community was also influenced by the opportunities made available to students and parents through extracurricular organizations, literary and civic functions and sporting events sponsored by the local school. The buildings physically represent a critical period in the development of the Township through the dynamic early and mid-twentieth century. The collection of buildings and additions found on this site also represent one rural community’s response to demographic changes, including a growing population during the 1920s, economic downturn of the Depression era and then the dramatic post World War II industrial and residential development and prosperity of the region. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Statement of Significance (provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance) The Southington Local School District Campus is eligible for listing on the National Register under Criteria A, as representative of the important development of the educational process in Southington Township that occurred early in the twentieth century. This development characterized the educational evolution from oneroom schoolhouses located throughout the township to the utilization of a centralized campus. This transition was encouraged on a state-wide level and was accomplished typically by townships in Trumbull County late in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The campus further reflects Ohio’s general population growth and development through the early and mid-twentieth century which resulted in northeast Ohio’s position as a major industrial center mid-twentieth century until the manufacturing sector collapsed in the mid 1970s. Although industry did not locate within the township, its position midway between Cleveland and Youngstown, ready access to Akron, the Lake Erie shoreline, Ravenna Arsenal, General Motors complex built in Lordstown in 1966, and the Ohio Turnpike facilitated steady residential development within the community. Early in the nineteenth century, Southington Township’s political and educational development mirrored other rural communities in Trumbull County. In 1817, sub-districts were created for polling, taxation and education and township trustees were elected. Each sub-district potentially housed an individual schoolhouse if the population justified it. A map from the 1878 Atlas of Trumbull County illustrates nine such sub-districts within Southington Township with a schoolhouse indicated in each, although whether they were all actually constructed is not known. (Figure 1) The timing of the eventual centralization of the township school system was also typical. Statewide, the early years of the twentieth century witnessed the consolidation of one room district township schoolhouses to newly constructed, centrally located facilities. According to The Annual of the Trumbull County Public School System, published by Trumbull County Public Schools in 1929, the first township in Trumbull County to centralize was Gustavus Township, located in the northern part of the county in 1898. By 1929, all of Trumbull County’s townships had centralized after Bazetta Township constructed its new building in time for the 1928-1929 school year. Neighboring townships that constructed centralized school campuses in roughly the same period as Southington include Newton Falls; 1921, (not extant) Vienna; 1920, (not extant) Braceville; 1915, (not extant) Champion; 1915-1920, (now used as an elementary school) 11
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