{"nrhp_refnum":"85001692","name":"South Ridge Schoolhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"OH 113 and Bechtel Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amherst Township","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.36963342300004,"lon":-82.17524807599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, one-room rural schoolhouse of rock-faced sandstone at the southwest corner of Route 113 and Bechtel Road in Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio, built in 1892.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the township's last remaining late nineteenth-century link to the rural one-room school system and to the local sandstone quarrying industry. It is built of prized \"Amherst Blue\" sandstone. Its rusticated walls, corner buttresses and carved stone pediments and doorway are unusually ornate for a schoolhouse.","narrative":"South Ridge Schoolhouse is a small one-room school at the southwest corner of Route 113 and Bechtel Road in Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio. Built in 1892 on a mound shaded by tall trees, it is a one-story building with a sandstone foundation, rock-faced ashlar sandstone walls, a slate gable roof, a pyramidal cupola and carved stone corner buttresses. Stone pediments top the windows and the double doorway. It replaced an earlier school at another corner of the same intersection, and its late date for a one-room school reflects the continuing need for rural schools on the edges of the village. The walls use \"Amherst Blue\" sandstone, a prized stone from local quarries that supplied building stone to several major cities. The nomination describes it as the township's last remaining late nineteenth-century link to both the one-room school system and the quarrying industry. The building has not been significantly altered, though its interior has deteriorated, and it is listed as vacant.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date 1892)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant; the interior is original but deteriorated, with no major alterations since construction.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.536083-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85001692.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001692/3ce1abad4c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001692/3ce1abad4c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Ridge_Schoolhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Ridge_Schoolhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989819","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138478090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/south-ridge-schoolhouse-85001692/"}