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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAY 2.21975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 18 E. Orange Ste Charles A.
Vanik (Check One) Restricted < - Preservation work - Comments Et: Commercial OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS MAR 1 1975 CLASSIFICATION STATE Religious Government Site DATE REGISTER County ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY OWNERSHIP Unoccupied Military Both Transportation Educational STATUS Yes: Museum Private LOCATION Structure Federal CODE Entertainment NAME Building NATIONAL Scientific Park District COMMON: Private Residence Cleveland Industrial Being Considered DATA SHEET Ohio Cuyahoga Object Public Agricultural Stoneman-Nokes House Public Acquisition: Chagrin Falls 035 OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC ENTRY DATE 039 TITLE OF SURVEY: In Process DATE OF SURVEY: 1 Lakeside Ave., N.W CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Stoneman, Joseph, House CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 22 Local ENTRY NUMBER Cuyahoga County Courthouse Margaret K.
Nokes DESCRIPTION X Excellent O Fair - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed E Unaltered - Moved X Original Site entrance, but has been remodeled and added to to make CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL structure projecting well beyond the side wings. The house retains its walnut-bannister on the front two apartments, few changes have been made to the in- An attendant brick stable retains its arched carriage stairs and its softwood floors throughout. porch and triple window in the rear. The building is two stories in height and has a low small porthes carrying a similar mode of ornament. The house is of locally-made brick and river stone. Although the house is currently a decorator's shop and terior with the exception of the removal of mantels. There is a wooden cornice in the bracketed style ard an apartment and garage.
change, with the exception of the addition of a wooden (Check One) Good DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The building 1s Italianate in style, I-shaped, built RECEIVED SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 20th Century - Pre-Columbian: SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Prehistoric Other (Specify) The house is built of bricks burnt in Stomeman's the rear that of a still-extant hardware store of Stoneman was active in both hardware and brickmaking. Boss Hutchings, who had come to the area from England In 1833 by one Noah Graves, of Sunderland, Massachusetts, foundry and Hutchings' brickyard.
MAR 1 8 1975 1873 Conservation Engineering Military Transportation Commerce losophy Communications Architecture Religion/Phi Aboriginal Landscape Science Theater REGISTER itarian Literature NATIONAL RECEIVED Industry Education Social/Human- The Stoneman-Nokes House represents the flowering of Victorian prosperity in Chagrin Falls.It is the most Political Stoneman, a prominent local merchant and businessman. Music Sculpture Urban Planning Invention who recognized the possibilities of the water power of first mill was followed by a flour mill, paper mill, the river above the falls, and a saw mill built.This STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE