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Photograph of St. Joseph Convent and Academy Complex
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Joseph Convent and Academy Complex

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2006 · category: District · built in 1924.

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

The listing

  • Address. 12215 Granger Rd., Garfield Heights
  • When was it listed? April 2006
  • Category. district
  • When was it built? 1924
  • National Register reference number. 06000272 - 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.

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Joseph Convent and Academy Complex, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering St. Joseph Convent and Academy Complex, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph Convent and Academy Complex between 1993 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkVANACHEK
28 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.3 acresCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTONE
18 March 2018Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkHILLSIDE ROAD

Every fire recorded in Cuyahoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph Convent and Academy Complex: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bloating Material, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
IndependenceBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Rockside QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Terra Visa Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Terra Visa Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Hydraulic Press Brick Company PitClayProducer
Hydraulic Shale PitClayProducer
Independence Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Myrtle-Highview Historic District1.7 miles2019
Miles Park Historic District2.2 miles1974
Beehive School2.3 miles1984
Lock No. 39 and Spillway2.5 miles1979
Abraham Ulyatt House2.6 miles1979
Harvard School2.9 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000272 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 426 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.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.