Intensive Level Architectural Survey Report, Burton Village Historic District, Geauga County, Ohio

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From introduction: "The Village of Burton received a Certified Local Government grant from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office in 2012, to undertake an intensive level of architectural survey of 42 historic properties in the Burton Village Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 (74001501). Only 34 OHI Forms were completed (including the revised ones) in this survey because eight of the commercial properties are part of three historic commercial building blocks. From the total of 42 properties, nine of them had been documented previously on the Ohio Historic Inventory dated in 1977, 1980 and three forms were undated. The information was incomplete, vague and sometimes not accurate and therefore needed to be revised. The Burton Village Historic District is situated in the heart of the Village of Burton, surrounding the Village Green, which was plotted by the Connecticut Western Reserve surveyors in 1798. The original settlers coming from Cheshire, Connecticut, set themselves to plan their town in the typical New England fashion with their corresponding institutions, like the Meeting House, established by the Congregational Church, where all the affairs of the Township were discussed in between the worship services." Funding for this project was provided in part through a fiscal year 2012 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Village of Burton (project number OH-12-11) administered by the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 39-12-41942) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Burton, Ohio is a Certified Local Government.

Intensive Level Architectural Survey Report, Burton Village Historic District, Geauga County, Ohio

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