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Strong, Jacob, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 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

one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 2023 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.

Sources: 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. 18829 Fairmount Blvd., Shaker Heights, 44118
  • When was it listed? 2023-07-24
  • Category. building
  • Township. Shaker Heights city
  • National Register reference number. 100009131 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 4,968 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,968 specimens collected within 10 miles of Strong, Jacob, House between 1850 and 1975: 4,515 Animalia, 234 Fungi, 136 Plantae, 76 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 Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.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 4,968 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaker Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 1993 and 1993: 1 hail. 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
September 1993HailShaker Heights$50,000Large hail was reported in Shaker Heights where trees were also downed. Numerous large trees limbs were downed in North Olmstead.

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Map coverage status

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.

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
Tremaine-Gallagher Residence1.2 miles1973
Burdick, Harold B., House1.3 miles1974
Warren, Moses, House1.7 miles1974
Commodore Apartment Building1.8 miles1983
Tower East1.9 miles2014
East Cleveland District 9 School1.9 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100009131 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 338 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.
  • 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.