{"nrhp_refnum":"74001474","name":"Vermilion Town Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"736 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vermilion","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.42014346900004,"lon":-82.36553005699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick and stone public building at 736 Main Street in Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio, built in 1883. It houses offices on the first floor and a public auditorium on the second.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a handsome architectural expression of the civic pride of a thriving lake port village. It is also significant for its nearly unaltered second-floor public hall or \"Opera House\". Few such halls survive relatively intact, although nearly every town of any size once had one.","narrative":"Vermilion Town Hall, at 736 Main Street, is a three-story brick and stone public building completed in 1883. Its design mixes High Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and Eastlake features, and its overall form could be mistaken for a church of the period. The asymmetrical east facade has a square tower at the southeast corner, now without its pointed roof, and a Gothic entrance arch with banded voussoirs. Gables with large circular colored-glass windows project from a tall hipped roof on three sides. Offices occupy the first floor, while the second floor holds a two-story public hall with an Eastlake-style proscenium, a raked floor, a gallery and a ceiling with heavy bracketed beams. The building represents the civic pride of a lake port village of about 2,000 people. Its hall is especially valued because few comparable town opera houses have survived in such intact condition.","period_of_significance":"1883","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and Eastlake","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, altered in part; offices on the first floor and a public auditorium on the second. The form checks the status as occupied and the present use as government.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.909976-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001474.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001474/6e441ecf2e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001474/6e441ecf2e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vermilion_Town_Hall_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</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:Vermilion_Town_Hall_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988162","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137782973"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/vermilion-town-hall-74001474/"}