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Photograph of Forest Hill Realty Sales Office
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Forest Hill Realty Sales Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2419 Lee Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 44118
  • When was it listed? 2007-06-21
  • Category. building
  • City. Cleveland Heights city
  • Architect. Andrew J. Thomas
  • National Register reference number. 07000580 - 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

1901 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Forest Hill Realty Sales Office, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Forest Hill Realty Sales Office, surveyed 1901

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 4,320 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,320 specimens collected within 10 miles of Forest Hill Realty Sales Office between 1850 and 1975: 3,890 Animalia, 220 Fungi, 129 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 18951894F. WebsterEuclid
Specimen of Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1897Winkler, H.J.Woods, Cleveland.
Boraginaceae1850not recordedCleveland.
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1850Illegible collector nameCleveland.
A photograph of the species Catillaria tricolor, not of this specimenCatillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr.1854G. DixonCleveland, Bousdale Hill
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1854Robert KennicottCleveland
A photograph of the species Abrothallus parmeliarum, not of this specimenAbrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 18691860Mudd Wm.Cleveland
A photograph of the species Thryothorus ludovicianus, not of this specimenThryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790)1860not recordedCleveland
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981871Collector(s): unknownCleveland
A photograph of the species Timmia megapolitana, not of this specimenTimmia megapolitana Hedw.1871E. N. Claassen
A photograph of the species Amaranthus blitoides, not of this specimenAmaranthus blitoides S.Watson1874C. E. O. KuntzeCleveland

All 4,320 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Forest Hill Realty Sales Office: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. 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
Amax Rolling Mill/ Cleveland, OhioZirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, MolybdenumUnknown
General Electric/ Euclid, OhioTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCleveland Heights-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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

From the nomination file

6,753 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

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) X A Property is associated with events that have made Community Planning and Development a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or Period of Significance represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.

- D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, Significant Dates Criteria Considerations 1930 (property built) (Mark "x" in all boxes that apply.) 1937 (property moved to present location) - A owned by a religious institution or used for X B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a constructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property - G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 6,753 words, 44 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 07000580, 44 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Heights Rockfeller Building0.1 miles1986
Temple on the Heights0.2 miles1984
Park Synagogue0.5 miles2024
Forest Hill Park0.6 miles1998
East Cleveland District 9 School0.6 miles1979
Forest Hill Historic District0.7 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000580 in Record Group 79.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.