{"nrhp_refnum":"02000219","name":"Lima Stadium","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"100 S. Calument Ave. and E. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Allen County","state":"OH","lat":40.739896755000075,"lon":-84.09205071899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Lima Stadium is a reinforced concrete high school football and track stadium at South Calumet Avenue and East Market Street in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, built in 1936 beside the Ottawa River near the city center.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good representative of the sports stadium type under Criterion C. Its poured concrete design by T.D. McLaughlin and Associates was unusual for the rural region in 1936 and shows a hint of Art Deco styling. It was built with Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration support during the Depression, and it has served the schools and community continuously.","narrative":"Lima Stadium is a concrete football and track facility built in 1936 on a former city dump beside the Ottawa River, close to the center of Lima, Ohio. Two stands, each 204 feet long with 25 rows of seats, face each other across the field and seat about 6,000 people. Rooms for locker space, concessions and restrooms sit beneath the bleachers behind a simple concrete colonnade, with fluted bands that suggest Art Deco. Thomas D. McLaughlin's firm designed it, and Green & Sawyer built it. The Lima school board paid 55 percent of the cost, with Public Works Administration funds covering the rest and Works Progress Administration labor handling site work, courts and landscaping. Reinforced concrete construction was unusual in this rural region at the time. Later work included aluminum seating, a larger press box, concrete repairs, a 1998 west-side addition and a new running track, yet the colonnade, main entrance and original ticket booths keep their 1936 character. The stadium has hosted over 600 football games and graduations.","period_of_significance":"1936 to 1951","architect_builder":"Thomas D. McLaughlin & Associates Architects, Lima, Ohio; Green & Sawyer Contractors, Lima, Ohio","architectural_style":"Simple design with a hint of Art Deco (modified Art Deco); classification field not clearly legible","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a stadium; the stands were repaired in 1992-93, a west-side addition was completed in 1998, and the field and track were renovated in 1999.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.965843-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/02000219.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Stadium","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6548835"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/allen-county/lima-stadium-02000219/"}