{"nrhp_refnum":"79003886","name":"Huntington Township Hall","other_names":["Old Congregational Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Wellington on OH 58, Huntington Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wellington","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.09965761600006,"lon":-82.21978414899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival frame building on the east side of Route 58, south of Route 162, in Huntington Township near Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio. Built in 1849 as the Congregational church of Huntington, it now serves as the township hall.","why_significant":"The inventory describes it as a finely proportioned and detailed Greek Revival building. It was built as the Congregational church, and Reverend Asa Mahan, president of Oberlin College, briefly served as its pastor. It is part of the Wellington-Huntington Road multiple resource area.","narrative":"Built in 1849 on the east side of Route 58 in Huntington Township near Wellington, this two-story Greek Revival building began as the Congregational church of Huntington. It is a wood-frame structure on a sandstone foundation, with a gable roof of composition material, a rectangular plan, wood trim, and a basement. The inventory calls it finely proportioned and detailed. Reverend Asa Mahan, president of Oberlin College, served briefly as pastor. As Huntington declined in the late 1800s, church membership fell until the congregation merged into the Union Church. The building now serves as the township hall and is largely used to store fire engines and equipment, with large openings cut into the sides for the trucks. The second floor is no longer used and is in poor condition. It faces the former public square, now a green space with a monument, and the nominated property includes the church and two acres of surrounding land.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as the township hall, mostly for storing fire engines and equipment; large openings were cut into the sides for trucks. The second floor is unused and in poor condition. Exterior fair, interior fair-poor.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.148506-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79003886.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003886/a4440741ff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003886/a4440741ff-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huntington_Township_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huntington_Township_Hall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985752","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138529331"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/huntington-township-hall-79003886/"}