Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2000. 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
“(Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Olmsted Falls Depot, Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number The Olmsted Falls Depot is significant under Criterion C as an intact example of 19t century railroad architecture. It displays all the characteristics of a typical small town Lake Shore and Michigan Southern depot from this period: wood construction, simple linear form, massive overhanging bracketed eaves. vertical siding, small projecting station agent's bay on the track side for observing trains, simple floor plan the Olmsted Falls Depot retains its architectural integrity and setting, and therefore meets Criteria Background History: In January the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad was opened for use.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Olmsted Falls Depot. Machine-read text.
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.00000963- 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 1,062 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,062 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Olmsted Falls Depot between 1849 and
1975: 973 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. G. Newhall, A. Hall 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Olmsted Falls, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood.
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.
Thunderstorms with efficient rainfall rates moved over Cuyahoga County. Doppler Radar estimated over two inches of rainfall withing 75 minutes fell over portions of the county. Olmsted Falls experienced widespread flooding as streams downtown overflowed their banks. Water several feet deep was reported over Cook Road in the northern portion of town.
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
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From the nomination file
4,436 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
for National Register listing) -A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. XI 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 Period of Significance and distinguishable entity whose components 1876, 1909 lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) -A ownedby a religious institution or used for Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) & 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. ARCHITECTURE unknown Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder patterns of our history. Significant Dates Property is: Cultural Affiliation Narrative Statement of Significance Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Applicable National Register Criteria (Enter categories from instructions) Areas of Significance Olmsted Falls Depot religious purposes. the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Mark "X"in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Olmsted Falls Depot, Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number The Olmsted Falls Depot is significant under Criterion C as an intact example of 19t century railroad architecture.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 00000963, 36 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.
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.
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