{"nrhp_refnum":"84000427","name":"Lebanon Academy","other_names":["Lebanon Community Center","Faith Christian Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"190 New St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lebanon","county":"Warren County","state":"OH","lat":39.43910141200007,"lon":-84.20465737999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Lebanon Academy is a two-and-a-half-story brick Greek Revival school building at 190 New Street in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, dated 1844 by a stone tablet in its pediment.","why_significant":"It is one of the earliest buildings used for secondary education in Warren County and one of the last remaining structures tied to the National Normal University, which was first housed there. Its dignified Greek Revival design resembles many of Lebanon's grand mid-19th-century homes and institutional buildings. Despite the loss of its cupola, it keeps the main elements of its design and its spacious setting.","narrative":"Lebanon Academy is a brick school building at 190 New Street in Lebanon, Ohio, marked by a stone tablet reading \"Lebanon Academy 1844.\" It rises two and a half stories on a cut limestone foundation under a metal gable roof. The design is a simple Greek Revival, with brick corner piers, a center pier on the front facade, a pediment, and large windows with plain stone lintels. Old photographs show that a dome-capped tower once sat near the front of the roof. The school opened on September 1, 1845, after discussion that began in 1835. Its first students were drawn mostly from Lebanon and included nearly equal numbers of males and females. In 1855 the Southwestern Normal School, later the National Normal University, began classes here and stayed until 1882, after which the building served as a recitation hall. It was abandoned in 1895 and later housed a primary school and kindergarten. It was listed as one of the earliest secondary-education buildings in the county.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior in good condition; used as a community center at the time of the inventory; the cupola has been removed and the interior was not examined.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.797875-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84000427.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000427/b45632601a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000427/b45632601a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lebanon_Academy_from_southwest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lebanon_Academy_from_southwest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986394","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138762784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/warren-county/lebanon-academy-84000427/"}