Burton Village Historic District

Burton's historic core in Geauga County, Ohio, is a roughly 20-acre district of houses, shops and public buildings arranged around the public square and along North Cheshire Street. Early landmarks include the 1838 brick Hickox house, now home to the county historical society, and Greek Revival frame houses from the 1830s and 1840s. The district's second phase dates to the 1880s, when a town hall (1881), a high school (1885, now the library), brick commercial blocks and a bank (1887) were built in Second Empire, Italianate and Queen Anne styles. The Congregational Church, first built in 1836, was moved and remodeled several times. Growth stopped after the 1903 failure of the local bank, which left the village economically stagnant for about thirty years and preserved its nineteenth-century appearance. The nomination points to the consistent character of the later buildings and to the generally sympathetic nature of later alterations as reasons the area forms a distinct cultural entity.