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.74001544- 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 Smead House 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 1,358 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Smead House between 1864 and
1975: 1,087 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 Smead House: 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
1,895 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
foundation and is covered with clapboard siding which, at the fascia, Above this fascia is a bracketed "skirt" roof which is capped by a mansard a continuous, multi-faceted, hipped roof. Dormer windows project from the mansard, two to each elevation. They are cut down through the skirt are infilled with plate punch work in the form of circles, stars, and a walls, and fifteen feet further from the entrance, the hallway widens illuminates the stairwell. On the first floor, to each side of the motifs. The second floor is bedrooms. SEP 3 0 1974 CONDITION DESCRIPTION REGISTER Ruins NATIONAL stickwork. In the rear some modifications and additions have been made which becomes upright tongue-and-groove planking pointed at the lower extremity.
sides and a capping bracketed pediment with a central solid wooden pinnacle. combination of vertical strips and circles. destroyed the building's former countenance. Interior:Upon entering this structure there is a hallway with curved the side bays and continues along them.A jig-sawn pediment caps the with octagonal shingles and four chimneys. At the facade, square bays rosettes are of plaster in low relief combining geometric and organic where bracketed bay windows replace the central portico of the facade.
Inside the lower faces of the battered walls is horizontal and vertical The extravagance of the facade lessens only slightly at the sidewalls turned balusters and a reeded and lathe-turned newel.A large skylight from the superstructure which isa square box.Itsits atop a stone portico and the entire assembly-portico, side bays -is crowned by 10-17-74 (Check One) - Excellent These bays, in turn, frame a projecting central portico of jig-sawn stairway, are large parlors from which the floor to ceiling windows project Exterior: This complicated structure is best described by building outward parlors with their outside walls becoming projecting bays.
Exposition of 1876, the Stick Style flourished. Several examples Wheeler, Richard Upjohn, Leopold Eidlitz and Richard Morris Hunt. Style buildings in Lake County and a fine example of this 19th SEP 3 0 1974 1875 Military Architecture Commerce losophy Conservation Science Communications Landscape Engineering Aboriginal Transportation REGISTER Religion/Phi itarian Theater Prehistoric Literature NATIONAL Music Agriculture of his concern for structural truthfulness in wood construction.
Other persons involved with the styles development were Gervase Political Sculpture Urban Planning Social/Human- Downing is some of his mid-l9th century publications which speak Education This structure is one of Mentor's few extravagant examples of the 20th Century Early foundations of the style have been laid by Andrew Jackson Gothic forms, this style is identified by Marcus Whiffen "as one The home at 187 Mentor Avenue is one of only a few remaining Stick Between Downing's death in185l and the Philadelphia Centennial Invehtion PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Other (Specify) Art century construction style. Industry appeared at the Exposition itself. of the two most purely American stylesof the nineteenth century.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001544, 11 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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