{"nrhp_refnum":"78002198","name":"Greene Township Center","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of North Bloomfield on OH 87","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Bloomfield","county":"Trumbull County","state":"OH","lat":41.46133429900004,"lon":-80.76212225399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of civic and religious buildings, a town hall and a community church (formerly Methodist), facing each other on the town green at Greene Township Center, east of North Bloomfield on Ohio Route 87 in Trumbull County, Ohio. Both were built in 1877.","why_significant":"The group typifies a small Western Reserve town, with civic and religious buildings around a green reflecting New England settler origins, though its diagonal layout is unusual. The two buildings share a construction date but use Italianate and Gothic styles to distinguish civic from religious use. The church also reflects an era when its architect served as local minister, druggist and postmaster.","narrative":"Greene Township Center is a group of two 1877 buildings facing each other diagonally across a town green at the geographic center of a five-mile-square Western Reserve township in Trumbull County, Ohio. The town hall is a two-story Italianate structure with a flat-topped tower, and it once served as the high school as well as the township's administration building. The church, designed by its minister Rev. R. W. Crane, uses Gothic forms such as pointed arched windows, pinnacles and buttresses. Its original octagonal spire fell in a 1918 tornado and was replaced by a smaller belfry. A basement was added in 1956 and a parsonage in 1975. The ensemble was recognized as a typical small Western Reserve town with an unusual arrangement, where two buildings of the same date use different architectural styles to separate religious and civic life. The town hall passed to the township trustees in 1900 and remains in community use.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Rev. R. W. Crane (church)","architectural_style":"Gothic (church) and Italianate (town hall)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition; the town hall is used by the township trustees for meetings and community activities, and the church houses the Greene Community Church congregation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.224023-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002198.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002198/9754d922a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002198/9754d922a2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School_at_Greene_Township_Center.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School_at_Greene_Township_Center.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991683","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138752267"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/trumbull-county/greene-township-center-78002198/"}