{"nrhp_refnum":"12000464","name":"Southington Township School (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Chalker School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4432 OH 305","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southington","county":"Trumbull County","state":"OH","lat":41.30860242000006,"lon":-80.95742879799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick elementary school building at 4432 State Route 305 in Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio, built in 1906-1907 next to the previously listed Chalker High School and a Civil War monument.","why_significant":"The building reflects the township's early twentieth-century shift from scattered one-room schoolhouses to a single centralized graded school, and it represents a modest, utilitarian primary school design. Its inclusion restores the original two-building school campus, and the listing name changes from Chalker High School to Southington Township School.","narrative":"Built in 1906-1907, this nine-bay brick elementary building in Southington Township, Ohio, sits beside Chalker High School and a Civil War monument on a slight rise near the township center. It has a hip roof, a central cupola, stone sills and lintels, and a projecting gabled entrance with a fanlight. Inside, two large classrooms flank a central stair and foyer on each floor, with cloakrooms and wooden floors still in place. It served as the township's only primary school until 1928 and was modernized with Public Works Administration funds in 1939. Later additions from the 1950s through the 1980s hid much of its character, but they were removed in 2011. The building represents the move from one-room sub-district schools to one centralized graded school, and it shows the plain design typical of early twentieth-century primary schools. Including it restores the original campus and supports a name change to Southington Township School.","period_of_significance":"1906-1960","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th century revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used for classrooms until a new school opened in 2012; later additions were demolished in October 2011, and the township trustees plan to reuse the building for storage and possibly offices.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.634868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/12000464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000464/048ccc1e00-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000464/048ccc1e00-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Randall Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southington_Township_School_Southington_OH_Feb_2012.jPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Randall Riley</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:Southington_Township_School_Southington_OH_Feb_2012.jPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991723","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalker_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5068827"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/trumbull-county/southington-township-school-boundary-increase-12000464/"}