{"nrhp_refnum":"96001515","name":"Kendall, Virginia, State Park Historic District","other_names":["Lake Shelter","Octagon Shelter","Ledges Shelter","Ritchie Ledges","P"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"701, 801, 1000 Truxell Rd. and 434 W. Streetsboro","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peninsula","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.22072423100005,"lon":-81.52451933479296,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 530-acre designed park landscape in Boston Township near Peninsula, Summit County, Ohio, built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps around the sandstone Ritchie Ledges. It includes shelters, a day camp building, trails and open playsteads.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is a cohesive Rustic-style designed landscape built with federal relief labor between 1933 and 1945. It is significant for architecture, landscape architecture, recreation, politics/government and social history, including the CCC's role in giving young urban men work and training.","narrative":"Virginia Kendall State Park Historic District covers about 530 acres near Peninsula, Ohio, where a landscape of shelters, trails and meadows was built around the sandstone Ritchie Ledges. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees did the work from 1933, following a master plan that linked the Ledges, Octagon and Lake shelter areas and the Happy Days Day Camp with curving foot trails and open playsteads. The buildings use a Rustic style, with wormy chestnut walls, board and batten siding, fieldstone chimneys and wood shingle roofs. The Happy Days Day Camp, built in 1938, is now a visitor center. Later changes, including the 1979 redesign of drives and parking areas, did not erase the overall design. The district was listed for its architecture, landscape design, recreation history and its link to a federal program that gave unemployed young men work, with significance running from 1933 to 1945.","period_of_significance":"1933 - 1945","architect_builder":"Harold S. Wagner; Albert H. Good","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Rustic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used for outdoor recreation; the Happy Days Day Camp now serves as a visitor center. Drives and parking areas were modified in 1979.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.032577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/96001515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001515/da745f6990-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001515/da745f6990-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_Days_Shelter.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_Days_Shelter.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986290","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Kendall_State_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934347"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/kendall-virginia-state-park-historic-district-96001515/"}