Avon Isle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Avon Isle Park Pavilion is a 50 feet (15 m) by 70 feet (21 m) sandstone dance pavilion located on Detroit Road, Avon, Ohio. The dance pavilion is housed in a building featuring several French Colonial revival architecture pieces, including a low hip roof and columned porches.”
Wikipedia article Avon Isle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 37080 Detroit Rd, Avon, 44011
When was it listed? 2010-07-08
Category. building
Township. Avon city
National Register reference number. 10000456 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,393 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,393 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avon Isle between 1853 and 1975: 1,076 Animalia, 269 Fungi, 36 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill	1899	A. A. Wright	Oberlin.
Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.	1899	A. E. Ricksecker	N. of Oberlin
Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard	1894	Kelsey, F.D.	Lorain County, Ohio
Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1894	F. D. Kelsey
Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,393 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avon, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 waterspout. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$150,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts toppled several utility poles along Nagel Road in Avon.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$15,000	Several trees were downed as a result of thunderstorm winds. One of the downed trees landed on three cars in a driveway causing damage to all of them.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$15,000	Trees and power lines downed across the county. A 70 mph gust was measured in Avon.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	A measured 63 mph wind gust was reported by local law enforcement.
June 2000	Waterspout	Avon	$10,000	A large waterspout came on shore near Avon Point and caused some minor damage.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$5,000	Large tree was downed and damaged two vehicles near intersection of Detroit Road and Colorado Avenue in Avon.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled a tree. The tree landed on a house causing damage.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$4,000	Several trees were reported down.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees. Both trees partially blocked streets.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a two foot diameter tree near the intersection of Jaycox and Detroit Roads.
April 2011	Hail	Avon	$1,000	Thunderstorms produced pea sized hail.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	Swath of straight-line convective wind damage at apartment complex in Sheffield.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	Eight-inch diameter tree downed about two-miles northeast of Avon.
May 2024	Hail	Avon	-	Hail up to quarter-size about 2-miles WSW of Avon and about 1.5-miles NNE of Avon.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	Tree downed in Avon.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	Two trees downed about two-miles east of Avon.
July 2023	Hail	Avon	-	Hail up to quarter-size in Avon.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	Numerous tree branches downed in Sheffield.
April 2020	Hail	Avon	-	Trained spotter reported nickel to half dollar-size hail one mile ESE of Avon.
August 2009	Hail	Avon	-	Penny size hail was observed.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	no account filed
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Avon	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Avon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lorain County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

7,071 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.
Criteria Considerations (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: - A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. _ B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Lorain County, OH Areas or signiticance (Enter categories from instructions ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION SOCIAL HISTORY Period of Significance 1926 - 1959 Significant Dates N/A Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder Roth, F. J.
Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 7,071 words, 43 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 10000456, 43 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Williams, Henry Harrison, House	0.2 miles	1978
Cahoon, Wilbur, House	0.4 miles	1978
Wilson--Falkner--Baldauf House	1.2 miles	2010
Hurst, William E., House	2.6 miles	1974
Garfield, Milton, House	3.3 miles	1978
Garfield, Halsey, House	3.6 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lorain County	All 113 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.