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 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.74001542- 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
2 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer-Wayside House between
2002 and 2003, burning about 400 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 1,602 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Sawyer-Wayside House between 1864 and
1975: 1,328 Animalia, 153 Plantae, 102 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
1 working within 5 miles of Sawyer-Wayside House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mentor, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 waterspout.
The reports record 2 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.
Penny to hen egg sized hail was observed for several minutes in Mentor. Much of the hail was golf ball sized or larger. This resulted in many vehicles being damaged.
A weak tornado moved inland from Lake Erie and was on the ground in Mentor for a little less than one mile. Many trees were knocked down with a few homes sustaining minor damage.
A portion of Interstate 90, a main throughway, was closed between State Route 306 and State Route 615 due to flooding. Several disabled semi trucks that stalled in high water.
Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a house near the intersection of Center Street and Mentor Avenue in Mentor. Some tree limbs were also down in the area.
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
3,196 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 simple, gable roofed, rectangular structure is five bays wide and lights in the lower. Similar windows are on the second floor, one each end, two on each floor. All the windows have stone lintels and of three separate courses, the upper one having the form of an ovolo The interior, which has been greatly modified throughout the years, has JUL 1 7 1974 CONDITION sills. REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED The building's most interesting feature is the stone cornice which a simple center stairway and plain window trim which is original. sash is hinged and opens inward.There are four identical windows on two bays deep with a center door.The building rests on a dressed entry are two windows with twelve lights in the upper sash and sixteen molding.
each above those on the first.The bottom sash is fixed, and the top (Check One) chimney adjoins the west endwall. X Excellent - Moved a gable-roofed, enclosed entrance porch of wood. To each side of this Wooden additions have been made to the south and east sides and a new follows the eaves around the entire perimeter.The cornice consists stone foundation.The entrance has been modified by the addition of Fair Good - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF
Statement of significance
entirely of stone. It was built in 1843 by Daniel Sawyer, an The building's all-stone construction, rare in Lake County, and JUL 1 7 1974 Engineering SIGNIFICANCE Architecture Communications Conservation Commerce losophy Aboriginal Science Literature Music Military itarian Pre-Columbian Agriculture Religion/Phi Education Transportation Theater Social/Human- Political Urban Planning Sculpture RECEIVED outstanding and unique piece of architecture. The building is significant in Lake County since it is constructed its unusually large hinged windows are features which make it an serves as the Catalogue store and administrative offices for the Invention sons who later occupied the farm and house.
Landscape Wayside Gardens moved into the building in 19l6.The stone structure nursery, one of Ohio's oldest and finest garden centers. Industry early settler who came to Ohio in 1810 on foot from Onondoga County PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Built c. 1843 REGISTER NATIONAL Art 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001542, 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.
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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