Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1975 · category: District · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.75001356- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,111 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,111 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lyceum Village Square And German Wallace College between 1849 and
1975: 1,012 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 30 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. Newhall 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 National Weather Service names
Berea, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash 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.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across Cuyahoga County during the morning hours of the 7th. The first reports of flash flooding occurred in Berea and then quickly expanded into Brookpark. Several roads, including State Route 237 through Berea, were closed. As the heavy rain continued, major streets across Cleveland became flooded. In downtown Cleveland, flash flooding occurred along streets just north of Superior Avenue, especially near the intersection with Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. In this area, seventeen people had to be rescused from their vehicles, and a total of thirty five rescues were performed on other streets throughout downtown Cleveland. Approximately thirty eight residences and two businesses sustained major flood damage. Rainfall reports across Cuyahoga County from this event ranged from 1.74 inches in North Royalton to 3.74 inches in Westlake. The majority of the rain fell in a four hour time period between 7 am and 11 am.
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
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From the nomination file
2,665 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 building at the northwest corner, Kohler Hall (l), is the oldest and the original building, and the south wing is an addition. At that time it was rooms. In 1940 the building was further renovated inside, and original veran- Gothic style, with a frontage of 85 feet and built in 1899. The west facade is very steep gable, probably in imitation of German architecture. The entrance CONDITION RUINS FAIR (continued) CHECK ONE style variant. The interior was completely renovated and modernized in 1953.
round-arched openings, and an octagonal spire which also suggests a Germanic Berea sandstone in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.Basically rectangular and third stories are rectangular, and the third floor windows are set in the north.The large semi-circular arch of the entrance contains a fanlight bay has a tall Gothic arch with a beveled glass window.Three Gothic lancets basement which houses offices, classrooms and a parlor. The side elevations Romanesque entrance and bay, except for one cylindrical tower off center to dormers on the end elevations.The west facade is symmetrical with a large above the entrance are placed diagonally to follow a stair.There are two divided into five parts by corner pavilions and a center entrance.
The roof, kinds of dormers, Gothic on the corner pavilions and smaller versions of The southeast building isa large three-story classroom and administra- hipped roofs.In 1905 the building was enlarged and refaced with Berea sand- XORIGINAL SITE a single tower axially placed on the west facade. It has corner buttresses, modernized with heating, plumbing and electricity.
Massachusetts in 1826. In 1838 Josiah Holbrook, a leader in the movement, tried to establish a lyceum village and model seminary in Berea, Ohio. The square the study of Latin, mathematics and the natural sciences. German Wallace concentrated on Greek, French, music, and German language and literature. building of German Wallace, Memorial Hall. The architect was Godfrey Fugman LAW ART INVENTION AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING X1800-1899 SCIENCE INDUSTRY PERIOD MILITARY LITERATURE This square carries associations with important movements in American PHILOSOPHY Lindsay-Crossman Chapel in 1953. X1900- SIGNIFICANCE Baldwin-Wallace College. Memorial Hall became the administration building.
XARCHITECTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The lyceum was a popular national adult education movement begun in and in l949 the college came into full possession of the building. It was renamed buildings serve as evidence of the commitment to preserve national religious needs of the German Methodist Church. For fifty years the two institutions of Cleveland. The Gothic dormitory was built in 1899 and named Dietsch Hall XEDUCATION The administration building was built in 1895-1896 as the main classroom excellent examples of their respective architectural styles. created as part of the Lyceum movement of the early nineteenth century.
Later acquired by German Wallace College and then Baldwin-Wallace College, its _OTHER(SPECIFY) _COMMUNICATIONS _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN worked in a cooperative and complementary fashion.Baldwin University offered -1600-1699 It placed stress on "maintaining and cultivating the classical German. was the center of the Lyceum Village. _RELIGION -1400-1499 renamed Kohler Hall in 1940. department of Baldwin University(chartered in1855), to serve the educational college in 1872.Later the church housed the First Methodist Church of Berea, the land was acquired by German Wallace College in 1866. This building was -1700-1799 -1500-1599 _THEATER German Wallace College had been established in 1864,growing out of a in 1940. - MUSIC strains in American education.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001356, 23 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.
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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