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.
Then and now
1901 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19011994
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.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,049 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Flora Stone Mather 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Flora Stone Mather 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.
United 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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