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.
“Garfield St. in Aurora, Ohio is a historic cobblestone architecture house built in 1853. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article C.R. Howard House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 42 National Register listings in Portage County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Aurora City. 1922 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1922; 1927 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1927 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 Aurora City - 1,855 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 476 specimens collected within 10 miles of Howard, C. R., House between 1893 and 1975: 423 Animalia, 46 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Bruyne P de 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Equisetum palustre L. | 1918 | Hopkins, L.S. | Kent. In sticky mud in ditch along W. & L.E.R.R. two miles north of Kent. |
 | Geaster P.Micheli ex Fr. | 1941 | Walters, M. B. | 25 miles southeast of Cleveland, Ohio |
 | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
 | Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1893 | Woolman | Cuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio |
 | Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
| Celithemis fasciata Kirby, 1889 | 1900 | R. Osborn | Kent, Stewart Lake | |
| Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854 | 1900 | R. Osborn | Kent, Stewart Lake |
All 476 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Howard, C. R., House: 8 producers, 5 past producers, 3 plants. 11 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn Aggregates Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Haueter Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lakeside Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Leone Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lucky Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lucky Sand and Gravel Company Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Miller Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Miller Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand, Incorporated Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sand, Incorporated Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aurora, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated to be as much as 60 mph downed several small trees and some large limbs. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in the area. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $5,000 | Trees and large limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Aurora | $2,000 | Nickel size hail was observed. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two large limbs. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | - | Several trees downed about two-miles southeast of Aurora. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | - | Numerous trees downed in Aurora. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Aurora | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Aurora | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Aurora | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Aurora | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Aurora | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Aurora | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Aurora | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
This is a two-story stone house with three wings of nearly equal pendant. There are two windows and a doorway to the right on the Moved RECEIVED and the corners have stone quoins. except that there is no doorway.There is a small porch fronting The road facade has a steep PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF
Political Sculpture cheese-producing region.C. R. Howard was a sawmill owner, The house is located on the Chagrin River at the place formerly recognized and recorded by the H.A.B.S. in 1936. RECEIVED unusual houses of the pre-Civil War period in northern Ohio. Industry
The whole case file for this property - 1,395 words, 10 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001602, 10 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Aurora Train Station | 0.7 miles | 1986 |
| Kent, Zeno, House | 2.9 miles | 1973 | |
 | Mantua Center School | 4.5 miles | 2013 |
| Mantua Center District | 4.5 miles | 2023 | |
 | Crafts William H., House | 6.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Hine, Horace L., House | 6.0 miles | 1976 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001602 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Portage County | All 42 listed properties in this county. |
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