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: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.75001367- 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 2,353 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,353 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Gates Mills Methodist Episcopal Church between 1879 and
1975: 2,260 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. W. Walworth, A. Woolman, AUSLEY, G 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
Gates Mills, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 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.
Heavy rainfall and rapid snow melt on the morning of Februar 28th resulted in a the Gates Mill dam failing. This low head dam was located along the Chagrin River in the town of Gates Mill. The released flood waters caused no additional damage from the ongoing flooding downstream on the Chagrin, which was already at moderate flood levels.
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From the nomination file
1,963 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
for the steeple. The original front door and hardware remain, as To the rear (north) of the original building, a one-story social 25 feet to the depth of the interior space. An elliptical arch frames flat pilasters and has a tall pediment in the taste of the mid-century. Original Site is approximately 32 feet by 46 feet. The facade is divided by four PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| - 18th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) 1853; 1927 - Prehistoric Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
cost. One hundred years after the settlement, the Methodist The contractor was L. G. Rogers, whose firm also executed the additions of 1953-1954. Conservation Communications SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Engineering Commerce Transportation Science Architecture and feeling. itarian Literature Art Military Education Theater Music Agriculture Political Landscape Because most of the original structure is intact, and because Greek Revival style. Its history is intimately bound up with that changing population of the village. The Episcopal Mission desired Sculpture Urban Planning Social/Human- church was renamed St.
Christopher's-by-the-River in memory He said he would build a church if it could be according to his Religion/Phi- prepared by the eminent Cleveland architect Frank R.Walker, plans for restoration and alteration undertaken at that time were The Methodist Class Meetings in Gates Mills began in 1845. of the founding settler of the village. Invention ideas of structure and design.'Gates donated $800 of the $l,300 decided that the site was an excellent one for water power, and The area on the Chagrin River which became known as Gates Industry from his heirs.This was accomplished in 1927.At that time the built a dam, mill race, sawmill and grist mill in a few months.
eclectic classic idiom, the church retains its original character to take.over the church.Because a reversionary clause had been This is an excellent example of an individual variation on the In 1853 the project to build a church was led by Holsey Gates. inserted in the original deed by Gates, the land had to be acquired of the Christian legend of the saint who dwelt by a river.The Mills was settled by Holsey Gates in 1826.He and his brothers several of whose buildings are nominated for the National Register.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001367, 12 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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