Decorative drawing: a row of nineteenth-century main-street storefronts. Not a photograph of this place.

Mather, Flora Stone, College District

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

“In 1834 he removed to Detroit, and practiced there till 1838, when he returned to Cleveland, where he spent the remainder of his professional life, and made himself a high reputation both as a physician and a valuable citizen. His leading traits as a physician were the exercise of benevolence and fearlessness in the performance of his professional duties.”
History of Cuyahoga County Ohio (1870). Machine-read text.

one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1974 · category: District · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Bellflower Rd. at Ford Dr., Cleveland, 44106
When was it listed? 1974-02-15
Category. district
Township. Cleveland city
National Register reference number. 74001442 - 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.

The ground it stands on

23,212 words

The chapter on Cleveland City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Cleveland. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

At the Erie Conference M. EK. Church, in the fall of 1838, resolutions were passed dis approving any expression by the churches on the question of American slavery. This action was received with disfavor by a portion of the members of the church in Cleveland. On September 1, 1839, an organization was effected, consisting of about sixty members, who withdrew from the First Methodist Episcopal Church for that purpose. This new church stood alone until May, 1843. when it sent delegates to a convention held at Utica, New York, and there went into the organization which has ever since been known as the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America.

Passage source: History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870.

John W. Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1802. He resided in Chenango county, New York, from 1820 to 1825, when he removed to Cleveland, where he has ever since lived. He was admitted to the bar the next year, and for several succeeding years was engaged in the active practice of his profession.

Passage source: History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Cleveland City - 23,212 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 4,049 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,049 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mather, Flora Stone, College District between 1850 and 1975: 3,622 Animalia, 218 Fungi, 129 Plantae, 73 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.

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
Villosa iris (I.Lea, 1829)	1863	H. Elliott
Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1871	Collector(s): unknown	Cleveland
Timmia megapolitana Hedw.	1871	E. N. Claassen

All 4,049 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mather, Flora Stone, College District: 6 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Calcium, Graphite, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Amax Rolling Mill/ Cleveland, Ohio	Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum	Unknown
Cuyahoga Lime Company Plant	Calcium	Producer
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, Ohio	Antimony	Unknown
Ohio Carbon Cleveland Plant	Graphite	Unknown
Harshaw Chemicals/ Cleveland, Ohio	Zirconium	Unknown
Lincoln Electric/ Cleveland, Ohio	Zirconium	Unknown
Sherwood Refract.,Cleveland Plant	Zirconium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms near this property

60 of 95 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 11 flash flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 3 deaths and 6 injuries. 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
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	2 killed, $75,000	During a sailboat race on Lake Erie, two people who were not wearing life preservers, were swept overboard by high waves and drowned. A total of four boats capsized and twelve people were swept overboard.
August 1996	Lightning	Cleveland	1 killed	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	3 hurt, $5,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 35 to 40 mph blew down two large tents on the west side of Cleveland. Three people inside were injured when the tents collapsed. One person was hospitalized. A peak wind gust of 36 mph was measured at nearby Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
July 1996	Lightning	Cleveland	3 hurt	no account filed
August 2007	Flash Flood	Cleveland	$2,500,000	During the afternoon hours of the 2nd, a severe thunderstorms moved over downtown Cleveland. This thunderstorm remained nearly stationary over the downtown area for around an hour, and dropped as much as four and a half inches of rain. Several rainfall reports of 3.0 to 4.5 inches were received from downtown Cleveland. This rain fell in less than 90 minutes. Local streets and highways throughout the downtown area quickly filled with water. Many roads, including Interstate 90 were impassable by flood waters as much as four feet deep. Many vehicles became stranded in the flood waters. Once the rain ended, the high water receded quickly. This was a very local event in Cuyahoga County as the southern part of the county remained mainly dry. In fact, Cleveland Hopkins Airport did not receive any rainfall from this thunderstorm.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Cleveland	$275,000	Heavy thunderstorm rain caused widespread flooding of roads and low lying areas in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. In Newburgh Heights, Interstate 77 was flooded with three to four feet of water and an elderly couple had to be rescued from their floating car. Over five inches of rain was measured in some southern and eastern sections as storms repeatedly crossed the area for several hours.
July 2000	Flash Flood	Cleveland	$250,000	Thunderstorms dumped up to three inches of rain on downtown Cleveland during the late afternoon hours. A television station located just east of downtown recorded 2.75 inches of rain in only 48 minutes. Major street flooding occurred and dozens of cars became stuck in water up to four feet deep. Several motorists had to be rescued from their vehicles.
May 2010	Hail	Cleveland	$75,000	Nickel to golf ball sized hail was reported. A few vehicles were damaged.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$64,000	Broadcast media posted a photo on social media of a large tree that fell on a house on the west side of Cleveland. The time was radar estimated. The media also reported 25,000 residents within the metropolitan Cleveland area lost power. One Giant Eagle grocery store had to throw out all of their refrigerated items after losing power. Tree limbs were also reported down on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$50,000	Entire roof was blown-off a building at an auto wrecking facility at the corner of Storer Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and large limbs along the Lake Erie shoreline.
May 2010	Hail	Cleveland	$50,000	Golf ball sized hail was reported. A few vehicles were damaged.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$40,000	Thunderstorm winds downed three large trees in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland. Two of the trees landed on houses causing some damage.
September 2020	Flash Flood	East Cleveland	$35,000	Road eroded by flood waters on Superior Ave and South Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	$25,000	Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of these trees fell through a house.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	$25,000	Many trees down in Cleveland Heights with some falling on homes and cars. The AWOS at Cuyahoga County Airport reported a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Cleveland.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Cleveland	$20,000	Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3.5 inches fell over Cleveland during a span of 60-90 minutes. Citywide flooding resulted as storm water systems were overwhelmed. Many roads including I 480 were flooded and closed for a brief period.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 1996	Flash Flood	Cleveland	$20,000	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Cleveland	$15,000	Thunderstorms produced half dollar size hail.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Cleveland and Garfield Heights.
February 2017	Flood	Cleveland	$10,000	The Big Creek in Cuyahoga County (drainage basin 35.3 square miles) cuts through parts of Brooklyn and Cleveland before draining into the Cuyahoga River. On the morning of the 7th radar estimated rainfall amounts between 1.5 and 1.75 inches over the Big Creek basin. Some roads adjacent to the creek were closed. Most notably, the Cleveland Metropark Zoo was closed as water flooded their parking lots and threatened the veterinary clinic and other buildings.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees on the east side of Cleveland.
May 2011	Hail	Cleveland	$10,000	Thunderstorms produced a swath of pea to quarter sized hail.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	$10,000	Several trees were reported down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees on the west side of Cleveland.
August 1996	Lightning	Cleveland	$10,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$6,000	Large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$6,000	A few trees and power lines were reported down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$6,000	Trees were downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on West 119th Street. The tree landed on a car causing some damage.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	Several trees were reported down.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Cleveland and North Royalton.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed three trees on the west side of Cleveland.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	Trees were downed.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$5,000	no account filed
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$4,000	A few trees were reported down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$4,000	Several large limbs were reported down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	$3,000	Local law enforcement reported trees down in Cleveland Heights. Streets impacted include Euclid Avenue, Yellowstone Road, and Hampshire Road.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds snapped a pine tree along Wyatt Road near Forest Hill Park. A couple trees nearby were also downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two trees.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$2,000	Tree downed onto vehicle along 2000 block of Lark Street in Lakewood.
May 2004	Hail	Cleveland	$2,000	Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2002	Hail	Cleveland	$2,000	Dime size was observed.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$2,000	Trees were downed.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$1,000	A tree was blown down on a fence on the west side of Cleveland.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$1,000	Several power lines were blown down along with large tree branches.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$1,000	A tree fell on a highway east of downtown Cleveland.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree branches.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	-	Tree downed in South Euclid.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	-	Large tree limbs downed along the Detroit Shoreway in Cleveland. Location estimated.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	-	Three trees downed in Cleveland Heights. Another tree was downed near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Richmond Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	-	Numerous trees downed in and near Cleveland Heights.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	-	Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of the trees broke through the roof of a garage.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cleveland	-	Two trees downed along Taylor Road, between East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights.

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

16 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Cleveland Leader	1865 to 1865
Cleveland Tri-Weekly Leader	1854 to 1885
Siebenbürgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt	1917 to 1971
Echo : Wochenblatt Der Vereinigten Deutschen Socialisten Clevelands	1911 to 1920
The Cleveland Gazette	1883 to 1892
The Aliened American	1853 to 18??
Jednoc Polek = Unity of Polish Women	1923 to Current
Enakopravnost	1918 to 1957
Dirva = Field	1915 to Current
America	1905 to Current
Svt = World	1911 to 1939
Cleveland Daily Leader	1865 to 1873
Cleveland Plain Dealer	1885 to 1961
Cleveland Morning Leader	1854 to 1865
The Toiler	1919 to 1922
L'araldo = the Herald	1938 to 1959

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.

From the nomination file

2,255 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

Jacobethan and Late Gothic Revival styles. Its entrance is a 60 foot ing the ceiling. In 1918 the body of the chapel was expanded to the pointed oaken arches and a large traceried window. Nearly all of onal corner turrets and an arched Gothic entranceway.
The interior The Haydn Hall is a three-story office-classroom building in the Jacob- entrance to Harkness Chapel faces southwest, both Clark and Haydn Clark Hall is a three-story classroom building of sandstone and buff The interior is an ingenious This is a district comprising three and two-thirds acres and includ- construction.A 16 foot square entrance tower faces southeast.The square stone tower with Tudor turrets at the corners.The wings The center projecting block has octag- brick in a variant of the Queen Anne style.It is irregular in mass Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER FEB 1 5 1974 From the south corner of Bellflower Road and Ford Drive, generally southernly direction, to a point approximately 10' edge of this walk to Bellflower Road, then along the midpoint DEC 1 3 1973 GP0 921-724 Location Cuyahoga DATE COUNTY STATE REGISTER Ohio NATIONAL (Number all entries) (Continuation Sheet) behind Haydn Hall, continuing south until it intersects the or Bellflower to the point of beginning.
FLORA STONE MATHER COLLEGE DISTRICT southeast along the midpoint of Ford Drive to the mid-point of southwest side ofa stone walk approximately 20'beyond the the alley approximately 15'beyond the southeast wing of Mather (July 1969) Memorial.

Read the complete 2,255-word case file.

Statement of significance

designed by Cleveland's noted architect, Charles F. Schweinfurth. 1902. Haydn Hall, named for former president Hiram C.
Haydn, was Conservation losophy Commerce Military Aboriginal Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Music Communications Literature Agriculture Prehistoric itarian Landscape was designed by Charles Hopkinson after Schweinfurth's death.In Sculpture the college, although she always refused the designation while she Industry four-year controversy over coeducation.It was the fifth separate This district consists of five original buildings of the College for The buildings and their green on Bellflower Road constitute an hist- Reserve campus, where continuous expansion, chaotic accretion and Invention The Florence Harkness Memorial Chapel was dedicated on March 30, Mather College, after Mrs.
Samuel Mather, the chief benefactor of oric and architectural unity that is unique on the Case Western itects Coburn and Barnum. Pre-Columbian college for women in the United States, after Vassar, Wellesley, Women of Western Reserve University, built between 189l and 1912. used asa student social and recreational hall,with some dormitory was alive. essential to close the green on the southwest and complete a quadrangle. Mt.Holyoke anda college for women in Baltimore.The College 193l the name of the College for Women was changed to Flora Stone 1891-1892.Clark Hall and Guilford "Cottage"were dedicated in Oct- The next two buildings were constructed in 190l-l902,and both itect, Richard M.
Hunt, and is his only work in Cleveland, and AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (I Applicable and Known) The latest building, Flora Stone Mather Memorial, was constructed architecturally distinguished. Guilford Hall, while less so, is 1891-1912 and classroom facilities.

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The whole case file for this property - 2,255 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001442, 16 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	1980
Glidden, Francis K., House	0.2 miles	1988
Commodore Hotel, The	0.2 miles	2016
Hessler Court Wooden Pavement	0.2 miles	1975
Allen Memorial Medical Library	0.2 miles	1982
Cozad, Justus L., House	0.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001442 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga County	All 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.
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.