Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. 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 1974 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.74001434- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 4,514 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,514 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Burdick, Harold B., House between 1850 and
1975: 4,072 Animalia, 221 Fungi, 140 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cleveland Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 1996 and 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.
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
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From the nomination file
1,673 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
interiors suggest very much Le Corbusier's dictum "a machine for Moved living room extends across the north front and east side of the produces a very characteristic effect. The kitchen is functionally framed by slender vertical stainless steel rods. The upper hall The interior spaces are open and light. Although small in absol- are recessed sliding ones.Floors are of"Armenite,"a trade-named Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric Other (Specify) - Science - Sculpture X) Social/Human- - Theater STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
- in the Midwest designed according to the principles of the Inter- national Style. According to Whiffen, this "revolutionary style i. e., historic, as an independent style. architect Harold B.
Burdick as his own residence, and was Also significant is the use of materials not commonly used in JUL 8 1974 Military SIGNIFICANCE losophy Commerce Engineering Communications Transportation Architecture NATIONAL Conservation Literature Education REGISTER itarian Agriculture Music Aboriginal Landscape Pre-Columbian Invention Industry of the earlier twentieth century (is now) a thing of the past," Religion/Phi- RECEIVED and Walker & Weeks, assisting in the design of the Federal work seems to have been in the traditional styles.He was of the European style in the United States.It was designed by domestic architecture at that date.All of Burdick's other known associated with the notable Cleveland firms of Meade & Hamilton Reserve Bank (National Register)in 1922 and Moreland Courts in Shaker Heights in1929.Burdick lived in this house from 1939 until his death in 1947.
The Burdick house isa very rare example ofa residence .1938 The house was built in 1938 at the height of the influence Political planned.as a prototype for mass-produced middle income living. Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001434, 12 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.
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.
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