Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 1976 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.76000211- 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.
Fires near this property
2 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Frazee, Stephen, House between
1993 and 2000, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 1,319 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Frazee, Stephen, House between 1876 and
1975: 1,272 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Frazee, Stephen, House: 4 producers, 4 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bloating Material, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Valley View, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
Nearly 4.5 inches of rain was reported over southern Cuyahoga County. The resulting flooding was primarily to roads and infrastructure, but there was some basement flooding mainly in the Berea area. Some impacts include widespread metropark flooding. The Canal Road in Valley View was closed from Rockside to Stone due to sinkhole conditions. In Macedonia there was a partial bridge collapse.
The tornado touched down near Schrieber Road then travelled south into Summit County. The damage path was around four miles in length and was non-continuous. Approximately 200 trees were downed along the damage path. A house in Valley View had several windows blown out and also suffered roof and chimney damage. The roof of the house was penetrated in couple of spots by flying debris. A small building nearby was blown off of its foundation and a car was also significantly damaged in the area. Several other homes and a barn sustained roof damage from fallen trees and one house had all of its window screens blown out. A semi trailer was flipped on its side near Hub Park.
The Cuyahoga River at Independence, a river forecast site, reach moderate flood stage. The river reached flood stage around 8 pm on the 15th, exceeded moderate flood stage a few hours later, and crested at 20.9 feet at 6 am on the 1th. The river came out of banks flooding roads in the Valley View community. Some garages and basements were flooded, but damage was limited. The major flood stage, 21.0 feet, was recently raised due to extensive mitigation efforts which were validated during this event.
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.
From the nomination file
1,539 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
side of the ell there is a wooden frame lean-to, with a modern Ohio-Erie Canal, a portion of which is a National Historic CONDITION DATE EXCELLENT UNEXPOSED acquisition. DESCRIPTION GOOD UNALTERED brick chimney. RUINS DETERIORATED period, with a center entrance. The treatment of the door and marginal to the proposed boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley the north end which has been bricked in.
practice.The facade has the typical five-bay division of the This is a plain two-story brick house in the late Federal two windows on the east side.There are two small square double-hung sash have nine panes over six.There are two gable parapet with two chimneys.The chimney tops are corbeled National Recreation Area and is being studied for possible window heads consists of vertical jointed bricks, instead of The house faces Canal Road, which runs parallel to the CHECK ONE stone lintels or keystones.Otherwise the door and windows At the south end there is a small one-story ell-shaped windows in the south end of the building, and one opening on have no stylistic treatment.The sills are of sandstone.The Landmark at this point.The land is in an area which is it is older or younger than the main block.
It has a door and in a vernacular form which can be traced back to Elizabethan windows in the half-story gable of the east end. On the north wing to the east.There is not general agreement as to whether vernacular style.At each end of the house there is a stepped - MOVED AREAS OF
Statement of significance
This is one of the two earliest brick houses in the lower Cuyahoga Valley, built the same year as the construction of the Akron-Cleveland section of the Ohio-Erie Canal. It is a rare Stephen Frazee settled on the land where the present house stands actively in progress on the canal, which runs practically at the doorstep of the house, prior to its opening July 4, 1827. At the known, in 1861. Frazee died in 1868. with this house and the Hale House of the same date, ten miles south on the west side of the river. This is based solely on the completely undocumented.
1826 1400-1499 1700-1799 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION ART PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT LAW AGRICULTURE COMMERCE SIGNIFICANCE SCIENCE MILITARY INDUSTRY LITERATURE in 18l2, and according to a county history was for many years "among _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMUNICATIONS INVENTION _TRANSPORTATION fact that they are all brick Federal vernacular buildings, but is _ENGINEERING built in 1826.That was the summer that construction work was _CONSERVATION -1600-1699 Independence Township residents on the east side oftthe river in _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN example of late Federal vernacular brick construction in its location.
_THEATER A lengthy conjectural interpretation (l96l) has tried to link _SCULPTURE _ECONOMICS time of the next census (l830), Frazee was fifty years old, and he - PHILOSOPHY - RELIGION 1843.In 1850 he was living in the house with a son-in-law.The _1900- _COMMUNITY PLANNING *EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC house was acquired by John Hynton, the name by which it is locally the builder of the first Western Reserve College building in Hudson and his wife had seven children.Heis also included in a list of
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76000211, 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.
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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