Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, American colonial architecture
National Register reference number.74001632- 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
1903 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031994
Fires near this property
4 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Robert McKisson House
between 1993 and 2006, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
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 700 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Robert McKisson House between 1877 and 1973: 673 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 9 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Hall, Adams J. M. R., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Robert McKisson House: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Sagamore Hills, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
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.
The Cuyahoga County tornado weakened as it crossed the county line near Sagamore Hills. The tornado traveled approximately two miles in Summit County before dissipating as it approached Highway 82 from the north. The damage path was non-continuous. Several dozen trees were downed and a couple houses received minor roof damage. Fallen trees also damaged three cars.
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
the finish carpentry, are of walnut, as walnut trees were plentiful tions of the building are those of the maturing Greek Revival style. canal. Modern plumbing, heating and kitchen facilities have been RECEIVED Fair facing the modern road. The main entrance has a small porch with Greek in style than any other room.There are wide window casings across its front. The frieze board, cornice returns, and propor- Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian! 2 X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Science - Theater STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
result of a family quarrel, and the brother of David, least, it is of intense concern /a house combining charac- teristic features of both the late Colónial vernacular and the mature 1837-1838 Commerce losophy Conservation Transportation Engineering Architecture Religion/Phi Communications Aboriginal Military SIGNIFICANCE Agriculture Literature Education Art Music existing and certainly Landscape itarian Social/Human- Prehistoric Political Industry Greek Revival style. Invention for the lakefront civic center. Sculpture was found guilty of murdering his sister-in-law Catharine.David which occupies ten pages in a standard county history.The mur- replaced the log cabin in which the murder took place.
characteristic features of both the late Colonial and Greek Revival This is a house in an excellent state of preservation with field then being a part of Portage County), and contemporary dered woman was the grandmother of the spectacular' Cleveland thousand to 15,000.This was the second execution in Portage murder.The builder Robert McKisson was the widower of the The present house styles.The house was built in 1838 on the site of a celebrated McKisson was executed on February 8,1838,in Ravenna (North- victim.Thus the house isa local reference point for an event mayor Robert E. McKisson (1895-1898), who laid the groundwork AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) County, the first having taken place in 1816. Murder is a social (or phenomenon.
At the very In addition, the house The murder, which took place on July 24, 1837, was the accounts estimate the attendance at the public hanging from several This house has always Other (Specify) 1854), 111-112. (Akron, 1892), 908-917. 1950%, 401, 591, 597. DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES State O
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001632, 13 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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