Built in 1923 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1923, Beaux-Arts, by Walker and Weeks.
National Register reference number.76001392- 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
1901 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19011994
The ground it stands on
23,212 words
The chapter on Cleveland City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Cleveland. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
At the Erie Conference M. EK. Church, in the fall of 1838, resolutions were passed dis approving any expression by the churches on the question of American slavery. This action was received with disfavor by a portion of the members of the church in Cleveland. On September 1, 1839, an organization was effected, consisting of about sixty members, who withdrew from the First Methodist Episcopal Church for that purpose. This new church stood alone until May, 1843. when it sent delegates to a convention held at Utica, New York, and there went into the organization which has ever since been known as the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America.
John W. Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1802. He resided in Chenango county, New York, from 1820 to 1825, when he removed to Cleveland, where he has ever since lived. He was admitted to the bar the next year, and for several succeeding years was engaged in the active practice of his profession.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,836 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Federal Reserve Bank Of Cleveland between 1849 and 1975: 2,421 Animalia, 216 Fungi, 120 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista.
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 federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Federal Reserve Bank Of Cleveland: 10 unknowns, 6 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, Halite. 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
Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 11 flash flood, 3 lightning.
The reports record 3 deaths and 6 injuries. 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.
During a sailboat race on Lake Erie, two people who were not wearing life preservers, were swept overboard by high waves and drowned. A total of four boats capsized and twelve people were swept overboard.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 35 to 40 mph blew down two large tents on the west side of Cleveland. Three people inside were injured when the tents collapsed. One person was hospitalized. A peak wind gust of 36 mph was measured at nearby Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
During the afternoon hours of the 2nd, a severe thunderstorms moved over downtown Cleveland. This thunderstorm remained nearly stationary over the downtown area for around an hour, and dropped as much as four and a half inches of rain. Several rainfall reports of 3.0 to 4.5 inches were received from downtown Cleveland. This rain fell in less than 90 minutes. Local streets and highways throughout the downtown area quickly filled with water. Many roads, including Interstate 90 were impassable by flood waters as much as four feet deep. Many vehicles became stranded in the flood waters. Once the rain ended, the high water receded quickly. This was a very local event in Cuyahoga County as the southern part of the county remained mainly dry. In fact, Cleveland Hopkins Airport did not receive any rainfall from this thunderstorm.
Heavy thunderstorm rain caused widespread flooding of roads and low lying areas in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. In Newburgh Heights, Interstate 77 was flooded with three to four feet of water and an elderly couple had to be rescued from their floating car. Over five inches of rain was measured in some southern and eastern sections as storms repeatedly crossed the area for several hours.
Thunderstorms dumped up to three inches of rain on downtown Cleveland during the late afternoon hours. A television station located just east of downtown recorded 2.75 inches of rain in only 48 minutes. Major street flooding occurred and dozens of cars became stuck in water up to four feet deep. Several motorists had to be rescued from their vehicles.
Broadcast media posted a photo on social media of a large tree that fell on a house on the west side of Cleveland. The time was radar estimated. The media also reported 25,000 residents within the metropolitan Cleveland area lost power. One Giant Eagle grocery store had to throw out all of their refrigerated items after losing power. Tree limbs were also reported down on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3.5 inches fell over Cleveland during a span of 60-90 minutes. Citywide flooding resulted as storm water systems were overwhelmed. Many roads including I 480 were flooded and closed for a brief period.
The Big Creek in Cuyahoga County (drainage basin 35.3 square miles) cuts through parts of Brooklyn and Cleveland before draining into the Cuyahoga River. On the morning of the 7th radar estimated rainfall amounts between 1.5 and 1.75 inches over the Big Creek basin. Some roads adjacent to the creek were closed. Most notably, the Cleveland Metropark Zoo was closed as water flooded their parking lots and threatened the veterinary clinic and other buildings.
16 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.
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
Second Renaissance Revival style is largely reserved for the ground ated and contain semi-circular arches, seven on the north and south an entrance with bronze doors and a Doric entablature with a curved and gilded. The walls are faced with Siena marble, a rich, gold-veined Plan of 1903 and the earliest of his civic center plans. CONDITION DESCRIPTION This is a ten-story commercial structure of steel and masonry The building stands opposite the southeast corner of the Cleveland Mall, the area developed from Daniel Burnham's Group ulated into three clear divisions -- ground story, shaft and penthouse.
Baroque tabernacle with a seated bronze sculpture representing screens which contrast with the golden atmosphere.One commentator construction.The elevations of the solid rectangular block are artic- X_ORIGINAL SITE which is slightly set back and has a low hip roof. elevations and nine on the west facade.The west center arch frames interior of a gold bar. vaulted ceilings.The intersection of the transverse and axial halls CHECK ONE variety.The security areas are separated by tall black wrought-iron described the experience of entering the bank as walking into the The main public halls of the ground floor interior have high broken pediment and a cartouche.On either side of the entrance second and seventh floors.There is a cornice with modillions at the story.
It stands on a solid plinth six feet high.The walls are rustic- windows have simple frames except for the modest architraves on the top.It is surrounded by an iron railing.Above this is the - UNEXPOSED -GOOD _FAIR The architectural treatment in the The upper stories are faced with Georgia marble and the ground are standing sculptured figures representing "Integrity" and "Security." shaft of the building, which comprises seven floors. The rectangular has a low dome on pendentives.
The Federal Reserve Bank building is one of the major works Because of its position at the edge of the Cleveland Mall, it was relationship to the Group Plan. 1922-1923 1800-1899 1700-1799 INVENTION LAW ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD AGRICULTURE SCIENCE RELIGION BUILDER/ARCHITECT 1900- SCULPTURE MILITARY TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY Plan. LITERATURE of design, or in the quality of workmanship and materials used.
1500-1599 the Mall plan), Severance Hall, the Bingham Company warehouse and _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _PREHISTORIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _CONSERVATION Cleveland Public Library and the Board of Education (both part of _COMMUNICATIONS Reserve Board.The firm of Walker and Weeks was active in Cleveland _PHILOSOPHY stability of the financial structure which is overseen by the Federal _ENGINEERING designed to harmonize with the Beaux-Arts Classicism of Burnham's -1600-1699 building is its symbolic and expressive architectural design and its of the Fourth Federal Reserve District in the United States.The design of the building is an attempt to express the security and from 19ll to 1949.
Among their most noteworthy buildings are the Walker and Weeks -EDUCATION -1400-1499 - ECONOMICS -COMMERCE - THEATER - MUSIC the United States Post Office. of the important Cleveland architectural firm of Walker and Weeks. According to Campen, it is exceeded by none of their works "in beauty The building was erected in 1922-1923 to house the headquarters The primary significance of this William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland,1950), 785, 820-821, 889, 893, 897.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001392, 16 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.
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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