Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1973. 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 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.73001487- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lutz's Tavern between
2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,452 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lutz's Tavern between 1864 and
1975: 1,181 Animalia, 152 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Lutz's Tavern: 4 producers, 2 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Painesville, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
A thunderstorm downburst downed dozens of trees and damaged several homes. The damage path began near Liberty Street in Painesville and continued east along Prouty Road to near State Route 44 in Concord. A mobile home was crushed by a fallen tree in Concord.
Many large trees downed in Painesville. One tree pierced the roof of a nursing home with branches ending up less than a foot away from an elderly woman laying in bed. Three classic cars were severely damaged when the garage they were in was destroyed by a fallen tree. A brand new sport utility vehicle was also destroyed by a fallen tree. An additional dozen trees were downed to the east of Painesville in North Perry.
Around noon on January 23rd, local officials reported the jam at the mouth of the river at Lake Erie extending as far south (upstream) as the Route 2 bridge near Painesville. The resulting backwater caused flooding of outbuildings along the river on Richmond Street and Ram Island, and flooded the Fairport Harbor Marina. Some storage equipment was flushed out into the lake. The Coast Guard ice cutter was sent in to remove the jam on the night of the 23rd.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,148 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.
Description of the property
The Rider Tavern of 1818 was a diminutive, one-story structure, probably Jonathan Goldsmith, Lake County's most famous builder, designed and roof. There were two entrances: the men's entrance led to a barroom In 1865 the building was converted into a residence, thus changing the interior planning. A ballroom, said to contain one of Goldsmith's famed spring floors, then covered much of the second floor. This was DEC 1 3 1972 CONDITION REGISTER Moved NATIONAL the overhanging roof.Foundation work is in stone. The main structure are still more recent additions. quite simply detailed, commensurate with its function as a stage coach erected a second floor and the giant square Doric columns which support severely toward their capitals.
The first floor double hung windows with Fair is of timber frame with clapboard siding.The soffit of the porch stop.In 1832,some 14 years after the initial construction was completed, entry doorway.A chimney climbs the end wall and bisects the gable hillside contained a pantry anda screened room for cooling food. (Check One) RECEIVED Good - Unexposed delicately flared lintels match the sensitive detailing of the south side Ruins the structure was enlarged.Aluminum siding and the twelve-light sash roofed dining room was added to the east end,and the north portion of still has tongue and groove planking. The supporting square columns taper - 20th Century AREAS OF
Statement of significance
The tavern's builder, Joseph Rider, was among the earliest settlers in the Lake County area, building a log cabin at the mouth of the Jonathan Goldsmith, who remodeled the Tavern in 1832, was Lake or completely built by his hand, only a handful remain as examples routes during the 1850's and 1860's, but automobile traffic has once DEC 13 Commerce Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Conservation Communications losophy Transportation Science Military REGISTER Literature NATIONAL Religion/Phi Theater Pre-Columbian Agriculture its construction.
itarian Music Aboriginal Industry Landscape The Rider Tavern was among many stage coach stops which were strung Sculpture The railroads siphoned off traffic from the Cleveland to Buffalo Invention Social/Human- of the transplanted Federal and Greek Revival styles as manifested in the architecture of the Western Reserve. Urban Planning Political out along the early road from Buffalo to Cleveland.Even as lake, Chagrin River in 1803. again made the Tavern a haven for travelers over 150 years after PERIOD One or More as Appropriate) Other Art SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1810-1818 (alteration by Goldsmith in 1832) Appalachia there was a need for land transportation to inland RECEIVED followed a natural gravel ridge.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001487, 8 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.
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.
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.
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