{"nrhp_refnum":"93000895","name":"Idora Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SE of the jct. of McFarland and Parkview Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Youngstown","county":"Mahoning County","state":"OH","lat":41.07227792850006,"lon":-80.68472323262606,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Idora Park is a historic amusement park district of about 27 acres on a bluff above Mill Creek valley in southwestern Youngstown, Ohio, opened in 1899 as Terminal Park at the end of a streetcar line.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the park illustrates the evolution of American trolley-line amusement parks from the turn of the century through the Big Band era. Its surviving buildings and wooden roller coasters represent early twentieth century resort and amusement park architecture, and some elements are of national importance. It was also an important social center tied to the Mahoning Valley steel industry.","narrative":"Idora Park is a 27-acre amusement park on a bluff overlooking Mill Creek valley in southwestern Youngstown, Ohio. It opened in 1899 as Terminal Park at the end of a trolley line and was renamed Idora Park the following year. Surviving resources include the large ballroom, an octagonal merry-go-round building, a penny arcade, a former bath house with a Georgian Revival portico, picnic shelters, and two wooden roller coasters, the Jack Rabbit of 1910 and the Wildcat. Fires in 1984 and 1986 destroyed several buildings and part of the Wildcat, and the park closed in 1984, but most major features remain. The park is significant for entertainment and recreation history, showing how streetcar-era amusement parks developed through the Big Band years, and for its resort-style wooden architecture with brackets, latticework and exotic details. It also reflects the industrial growth of the Mahoning Valley and its steel economy.","period_of_significance":"1899-1943","architect_builder":"Philadelphia Toboggan Company; T. M. Harton Company","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Moderne, Other: Italianate, Other: Moorish","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Closed as an amusement park in 1984 and described as vacant and not in use, with some areas overgrown or deteriorated but retaining a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.297169-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/93000895.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000895/5c6a13693e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000895/5c6a13693e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Youngstown News Agency, Youngstown, Ohio","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdoraDanceHall1920.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Youngstown News Agency, Youngstown, Ohio</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdoraDanceHall1920.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000178","name":"Mill Creek Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/mill-creek-park-historic-district-05000178/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990096","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idora_Park_(Youngstown)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5989523"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/mahoning-county/idora-park-93000895/"}