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One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Tower East
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 20600 Chagrin Blvd., Shaker Heights, 44122
- When was it listed? 2014-01-06
- Category. building
- City. Shaker Heights city
- Architectural style. International Style
- Architect. The Architects Collaborative
- National Register reference number. 14000029 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 4,989 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,989 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tower East between 1850 and 1975: 4,538 Animalia, 232 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895 | 1894 | F. Webster | Euclid |
 | Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc. | 1894 | Seymour, Arthur Bliss | Cleveland, O. [Ohio] |
 | Osmunda claytoniana L. | 1894 | Winkler, H.J. | Cleveland. |
| Boraginaceae | 1850 | not recorded | Cleveland. | |
 | Carex canescens L. | 1850 | Illegible collector name | Cleveland. |
 | Catillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr. | 1854 | G. Dixon | Cleveland, Bousdale Hill |
 | Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1854 | Robert Kennicott | Cleveland |
 | Abrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 1869 | 1860 | Mudd Wm. | Cleveland |
 | Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) | 1860 | not recorded | Cleveland |
 | Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898 | 1871 | Collector(s): unknown | Cleveland |
 | Timmia megapolitana Hedw. | 1871 | E. N. Claassen | |
 | Amaranthus blitoides S.Watson | 1874 | C. E. O. Kuntze | Cleveland |
All 4,989 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this property
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaker Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Shaker Heights | $50,000 | Large hail was reported in Shaker Heights where trees were also downed. Numerous large trees limbs were downed in North Olmstead. |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Shaker Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Shaker Heights quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Shaker Heights quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Shaker Village Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 0.9 miles | 2001 |
 | Moses Warren House | 1.1 miles | 1974 |
| Cooley Farms | 1.3 miles | 1979 | |
| Shaker Village Historic District | 1.4 miles | 1984 | |
 | Commodore Apartment Building | 1.8 miles | 1983 |
| Jacob Strong House | 1.9 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000029 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Cuyahoga County | All 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.
- 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.