{"nrhp_refnum":"10000456","name":"Avon Isle","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"37080 Detroit Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Avon","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.451755664000075,"lon":-82.03613536799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame dance pavilion measuring 50 by 70 feet, located in Avon Isle Park at 37080 Detroit Road in Avon, Lorain County, Ohio. It was built in 1926 as a dance pavilion and community gathering place.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the pavilion is significant under Criterion A for its role in the social development of Avon and nearby communities. It served as a hub for recreation and social life and reflects the shift from small neighborhood gatherings to larger public events. It is described as an intact and increasingly rare example of a community dance hall and pavilion.","narrative":"Avon Isle is a 1926 dance pavilion in Avon, Ohio, set in a four-acre park on a peninsula nearly surrounded by French Creek. The one-story wood-frame building measures 50 by 70 feet. It has clapboard siding, a low truncated-hip roof with a small cupola, and a columned front porch that gives it a French Colonial revival feel. Inside, a large open dance floor with a stage sits above a stone-walled basement. Little has changed since it was built. For decades it was the social center for Avon and surrounding towns, hosting regular dances through 1959, then festivals, carnivals, boxing matches, receptions and other community events into the 1970s. Its significance rests on that role in local social life and on its place among the many dance halls that appeared across Ohio in the early twentieth century. Most of those have since been lost. Today the building is vacant and owned by the City of Avon, which hopes to restore it for community use.","period_of_significance":"1926 - 1959","architect_builder":"Roth, F.J.","architectural_style":"Other/Vernacular (with an overall sense of French Colonial revival)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The building is vacant and not in use. It is described as in good condition, though some repairs are needed. The City of Avon owns it and would like to restore it as a community center.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.659537-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/10000456.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000456/02fb5119e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000456/02fb5119e7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Chris Light","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avon_Isle_Park22.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Light</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avon_Isle_Park22.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989869","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_Isle","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4829211"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/avon-isle-10000456/"}