Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2006. 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
“Cultural Affiliation Applicable National Register Criteria Period of Significance lack individual distinction. Significant Person Property is: patterns of our history.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Lilly House. Machine-read text.
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.06000270- 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 999 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 999 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lilly House between 1849 and
1975: 911 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 27 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
Westlake, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 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.
Between 800 and 1000 pm on the evening of May 12th rainfall observations in Olmsted Falls show 2.5-4.44 inches of rain. The rainfall rates were measured at 2.52 inches per hour. A dozen water rescues were conducted however no significant injuries were reported. In all nearly 1,000 homes were inundated in the towns of Olmsted Falls, North Olmsted, and Westlake. The City Hall in Olmsted Falls sustained significant flood damage to their basement. At the Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted 15 cars were submerged and a department store sustained significant damage. Dozens of roads and intersections were closed due to flooding with several feet of water. The major thruway Interstate 480 was closed around 1019 PM. Lewis Road in Olmsted Falls was damaged due to embankment failures.
Flash flooding across the western suburbs of Cleveland, including Bay Village, North Olmsted, Fairview Park, Rocky River and Lakewood. Notable road closures due to flooding include I-90 East near McKinley Avenue and West 117th Avenue between Berea Road and Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, West 130th Street and Bellaire Road and West 150th Street north of Brookpark Road in Cleveland. Great Northern Avenue north of Brookpark Road was flooded with several feet of standing water in North Olmsted. Extensive basement flooding reported, including between 1 to 2 dozen basements in Bay Village and 175 basements in Fairview Park.
A trained weather spotter estimated winds gusts of 60-70 MPH in Westlake with trees down on Bradley Road. The ASOS at Cleveland Hopkins Airport reported a 50 knot gust at the same time. Dispatch also reported six trees down in Berea with one tree down on a house on Buckeye Drive. First Energy reported 15000 customers lost power.
Lake enhanced storms moved off Lake Erie dropping 2 to 3 inches within 90 minutes over Cuyahoga County. Radar estimated as much as 4 inches over a stretch from southern Westlake into Olmsted Falls and east into Berea. As a result drainage systems were overwhelmed and roads rapidly filled with over 3 feet of water. A water rescue was conducted in North Olmsted near the mall.
Trained spotters, broadcast media, and social media all report trees down in the western suburbs of Cleveland, including Westlake, North Olmsted, and Rocky River.
Thunderstorms produced a swath of nickel to quarter size hail as they tracked across the county. Locations impacted by the hail included Westlake, Rocky River, and Lakewood.
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
5,013 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
Areas of Significance - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad O B Property is associated with the lives of persons X 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 c. 1844 - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. (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.
significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) ARCHITECTURE Architect/Builder Significant Dates Criteria Considerations information important in prehistory or history. Cultural Affiliation Applicable National Register Criteria Period of Significance lack individual distinction. Significant Person Property is: patterns of our history. (Enter categories from instructions) significant in our past. Lilly House for National Register listing) G less than50 years of age orachieved (Mark "X" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property C.1855 OMB Approval No. 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 1.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 06000270, 27 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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