{"nrhp_refnum":"75001355","name":"Berea District 7 School","other_names":["Berea Fine Arts Club, Inc."],"category":"building","location":{"address":"323 E. Bagley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berea","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.372744520000026,"lon":-81.84131554299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick two-room district schoolhouse at 323 East Bagley Road in Berea, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, built in 1913 and later used by the Berea Fine Arts Club.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a good example of the two-room district schoolhouse common in the early twentieth century, an improvement on the one-room schoolhouse of the nineteenth century. It notes the building has had very little major alteration and remains in good condition and in regular use. Significance is claimed in architecture and education.","narrative":"Built in 1913 on Bagley Road in Berea, this brick schoolhouse served as Berea's District 7 school. It is one story, rectangular in plan, with a hipped slate roof, a gabled center entrance bay with a louvered semicircular opening, and a small open belltower. Arched windows on either side of the entrance have been bricked in. The only major exterior change is a rear wing added in the early 1950s containing a kitchen and two restrooms. Originally a two-room school, it was taken over by the Berea Fine Arts Club in 1935, when the sliding door between the rooms was removed, a stage added and cloakrooms installed; the wooden walls, ceilings and floors remain. The nomination describes it as a good example of the two-room district schoolhouse, an early twentieth-century improvement on the one-room school of the previous century. It continues to host art classes, ballet, theater and church groups, as well as monthly club meetings.","period_of_significance":"20th Century; specific date 1913","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian Revival elements noted in the National Register write-up (handwritten, partly garbled)","criteria":[],"status_note":"In good condition and used almost daily by the Berea Fine Arts Club, art classes, ballet, Little Theater of Berea and church groups.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.274638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001355/a0784f846e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001355/a0784f846e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Chris Light (talk).","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berea_Dist_-7_Ohio.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Light (talk).</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:Berea_Dist_-7_Ohio.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987636","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137641095"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/berea-district-7-school-75001355/"}