National Register reference number.76001393- 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 4,036 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ford Motor Company Cleveland Plant between 1850 and 1975: 3,609 Animalia, 218 Fungi, 129 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Ford Motor Company Cleveland Plant: 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. 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
construction, approximately 40 meters by 80 meters. The street front is as a symmetrical facade, with the five wide central bays flanked by two end pavilions, but there is only one on the east end. The brick-veneered vertical piers and recessed spandrels clearly imply the skeletal structure continuous cornice above the windows. The original metal sash can be seen except on the third level, where they have been replaced by modern sash east end pavilion has three smaller windows on each floor and a squared-off pediment at the top which is also of brick and terra cotta. at the top level where the posts flare out to provide additional thickness. screen or party wall of brick, closing the interior space to the elements.
On the interior, most of the open floor plan for mass production capital and continuous slab type. The bare simplicity of each of these concrete elements is evident. On the second level, a spur track from with a wooden floor. At present, portions of the factory space have been temporarily partitioned with wooden framing, plaster board and composition board. Many of the areas are vacant and unused. There is no original machinery. CONDITION DETERIORATED XALTERED the nearby Norfolk and Western line enters directly into the building. segmental arch.These are faced with terra cotta, which also forms a following an interior explosion which destroyed the original windows.The XEXCELLENT _UNALTERED skeletal structure permits extensive windows for generous interior daylight.
This is a four-story industrial factory structure of reinforced concrete faced with red brick and white terra cotta.It appears to have been conceived On the east elevation all pretense of architectural style"is abandoned. underneath.Between the ground story and second floor there is a terra XORIGINAL SITE _UNEXPOSED _FAIR -RUINS forcefully the strength and solidity of the structure.
This is one of the many branch assembly plants built at the time of the first great expansion of the Ford Motor Company for the manufacture of the of the moving assembly line at Highland Park, Michigan, and the year before Nevins, mass production is frequently misunderstood to be simply large-scale production by the use of interchangeable parts. In reality, it is a much more operation on seven principles: power, accuracy, economy, continuity, system, engineers familiar with the functional requirements, and then turned over to Motor Company in 1905. He was the favorite architect of Packard, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford, his work by 1938 accounting for 18% of all architect- designed building in the United States, according to Wayne Andrews.
Extensive window openings like those on the east side of the Cleveland plant were a no longer considered effective, but several existing older structures, includ- plant continued in operation until 1932. 1600-1699 1400-1499 1800-1899 1700-1799 1913-1914 EDUCATION construction. SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD X1900- THEATER RELIGION PREHISTORIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT trademark.
ART MILITARY AGRICULTURE SCULPTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE Albert Kahn Ford's revolutionary five dollar a day minimum wage.According to Allan LITERATURE In 1923-1925, the company embarked on a massive expansion program XINDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT It is also a noteworthy example of early reinforced concrete industrial speed and repetition.It is characterized by the intricate intermeshing of _CONSERVATION _ENGINEERING - TRANSPORTATION - INVENTION the industrial architect to make plans.The architect of most of Ford's - ECONOMICS - 1500-1599 plants was Albert Kahn(1869-1942),who designed what is said to be the -SCIENCE Model T, and contemporary with the birth of the concept of mass production. ing the Cleveland plant, were successfully remodeled by Kahn.
The Cleveland hundreds of moving operations, creating in effect a kinetic plant.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001393, 18 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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