{"nrhp_refnum":"76001367","name":"New Lyme Institute","other_names":["New Lyme Deming School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"929 Brownville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"South New Lyme","county":"Ashtabula County","state":"OH","lat":41.58270752300007,"lon":-80.78339282299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story rectangular brick school building with Victorian Italianate elements at 929 Brownville Road, South New Lyme, Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was built in 1878-1879 and later given two modern wings, in 1938 and 1957.","why_significant":"The building is significant in education, as an important place in nineteenth-century preparatory education in northeastern Ohio and in the local history of the township. Judge William S. Deming donated the land and matching funds for the institute, which operated until 1923 and then became a public school. The reviewers accepted it for significance in education only, despite the alterations.","narrative":"Built in 1878-1879 on the wooded bank of Lebanon Creek in South New Lyme, this two-story brick building was designed as a preparatory school. Its Italianate features include a projecting entrance tower with a mansard roof, a hipped roof with iron cresting, bracketed eaves and stone lintels. Inside, high ceilings, original partitions, staircase and woodwork survive, along with a large second-floor auditorium. Plain wings were added in 1938 and 1957. The school began in 1878 as the Northern Ohio Collegiate and Business Institute, with land and $3,000 in matching funds given by Judge William S. Deming. It was incorporated as the New Lyme Institute in 1883 and reached an attendance of 300 under its first president, Jacob Tuckerman. In 1910 it was considered as a site for the state normal college that went to Kent. It became the public Deming School in 1923. Now vacant, it is expected to become a community building.","period_of_significance":"1879-1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Italianate elements (described as eclectic with Italianate elements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant for several years; about to be acquired by the Lyme Township trustees for use as a community building.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.231925-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001367.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986687","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/ashtabula-county/new-lyme-institute-76001367/"}