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Photograph of Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens
Photograph by Brandon Bisel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stan Hywet Hall-Frank A. Seiberling House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 180 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 714 N. Portage Path, Akron
  • When was it listed? January 1975
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75002058 - 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.

Topographic sheet covering Stan Hywet Hall-Frank A. Seiberling House, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Stan Hywet Hall-Frank A. Seiberling House, surveyed 1903

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 Stan Hywet Hall-Frank A. Seiberling House between 1993 and 2014, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 August 1993Smokingunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkAKRONS
30 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRAILROAD
13 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBRUNTY
27 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkCANYON TRAIL

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Stan Hywet Hall-Frank A. Seiberling House: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Flesher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Herbruck Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Herbruck Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.P. Pollo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
J.P. Pollo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lerkis Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riverside PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Robert E. Alden Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Summit County

Newspapers printed here

2 papers

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

NewspaperPublished
Akron Daily Democrat1892 to 1902
Summit County Labor News1923 to 1976

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stan Hywet Poultry Keepers Cottage0.1 miles2013
Dr. Louis Sisler House0.4 miles2019
Charles Willard Seiberling House1.2 miles1993
Dr. Robert Smith House1.6 miles1985
Stacy G. Carkhuff House1.7 miles1984
Wells E. Merriman House1.9 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75002058 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit CountyAll 180 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.
  • 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.