{"nrhp_refnum":"83002020","name":"Lakeside Historic District","other_names":["Lakeside (\"On Lake Erie\")"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lake Erie, RR tracks, Poplar and Oak Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lakeside","county":"Ottawa County","state":"OH","lat":41.53914030650003,"lon":-82.74983272355573,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 200-acre lakefront resort community on Lake Erie near the tip of the Marblehead Peninsula in Ottawa County, Ohio, with about 850 buildings, mostly cottages built from the 1870s through the 1920s.","why_significant":"The visible portion of the nomination describes a largely intact Chautauqua-style resort of Camp Meeting and Lakeside cottages, with auditoriums, a hotel and 1920s Mission style association buildings. The Section 8 statement of significance is cut off, so the exact criteria and arguments are not shown. The description stresses the continuity of the 19th-century resort fabric and its use of the distinctive Camp Meeting cottage type.","narrative":"Lakeside is a resort community of about 200 acres on the shore of Lake Erie, near the tip of the Marblehead Peninsula in Ottawa County, Ohio. A fence encloses the grounds on three sides, and a grid of streets crosses terraced, tree-covered land. Roughly 850 buildings stand there, nearly 95 percent of them small frame cottages from the 1870s to the 1920s. Many are narrow Camp Meeting or Lakeside cottages with street-facing gables, sawn wooden ornament and double-decked porches, alongside Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne examples. Larger buildings include the three-story Italianate Hotel Lakeside, begun in 1875, the 1929 Hoover Auditorium, and four 1920s Mission style association buildings with stucco walls and tile roofs. The community began with a church, an open-air auditorium, tents and board-and-batten cottages. Most of the original resort survives, apart from losses in fires in 1905 and 1929, and many sections keep their 19th-century appearance. That intact character as a Chautauqua-style resort underlies its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second French Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Stick Style, Mission Style and Camp Meeting (Lakeside) cottage types","criteria":[],"status_note":"Nearly all buildings are described as continually maintained in good to excellent condition, with most original uses continuing; intrusions are about 3% of structures.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.083515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002020.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990827","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/ottawa-county/lakeside-historic-district-83002020/"}