National Register reference number.76001398- 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.
19031994
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 2,861 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lorain-Carnegie Bridge between 1849 and 1975: 2,441 Animalia, 216 Fungi, 125 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
20 workings within 5 miles of Lorain-Carnegie Bridge: 10 unknowns, 6 producers, 3 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
an asphalt surface. The roadway is 60 feet wide, and the outside CONDITION DESCRIPTION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED FAIR UNALTERED CHECK ONE The eastern approach includes the Carnegie Avenue grade separation Deco style.Each figure carries a transportation symbol.The side figures in the stylized classicism which is closely related to the A propo sal by the county engineer is currently under study No major repairs or alterations have ever been made to the structure, and are executed with additional angular deco rative lines. structure of thirteen cantilever deck truss spans and one simple vehicular traffic and two lines of streetcar tracks, was never completed. elevations of the piers represent the wings of the allegorical figures other than routine maintenance.
4,490 feet including the approaches.It is a high level double-deck which would widen the roadway to 76 feet and requires the removal A pair of stone pylons stands on the last piers at each end of deck roadway cons ists of a lightweight reinforced concrete slab with This is a steel and conc rete bridge structure 3,610 feet long, truss span at the east end.The spans are of variable lengths, the of the pylons. -RUINS - GOOD DATE EXCELLENT consisting of five variable length concrete girder spans,and varying the bridge.The faces toward the approaches consist of sculptured greatest one being 299 feet over the river channel itself.The upper to align with the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, which opened in 1932.
treated architecturally with the angular parallel lines of the Art in width from 175 to200 feet.It was opened in1928and widened AREAS OF
Statement of significance
/ARCHITECT Frank Lander, Wilbur Watson, STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE derives, are the only major sculptural monument in the city in the by H. D. G. Par sons and published in a map by him in the possess ion City Plan Commission recommended that a Lorain Carnegie bridge should Frank R. Walker, who was responsible for the design of the pylons. unique ness of the sculptured pylons in Cleveland.
1600-1699 1800-1899 1927-1932 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS PREHISTORIC PERIOD AGRICULTURE LAW EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ART PHILOSOPHY SIGNIFICANCE THEATER INDUSTRY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC LITERATURE _COMMUNICATIONS _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT EDUCATION its final cost was $6,148,206.The county surveyor was Frank Lander, MILITARY of the Western Reserve His torical Society.A special committee of the members was the noted Cleveland architect J.Milton Dyer. level bridges which cross the wide valley of the Cuyahoga River in the consulting engineer Wilbur J. Watson, and the consulting architect Art Deco idiom.
Walker was a member of the important firm of Walker and Weeks, Frank Walker the bridge received an award from the American Instituteof Steel "be built immediately'in a report completed in 1925.One of the committee - 1700-1799 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN for a bridge was approved.The bridge opened in December,1932,and It was not.until 1927 that the necessary $8,000,000 bond issue this nomination (l976),it is of exceptional significance because of the -RELIGION - MUSIC X1900- downtown Cleveland. It helped to link the East and West sides of Cleveland, which were considered to be socially and culturally separate.
The sculp- tured pylons, from which the arc hit ectural cha racter of the bridge Although the bridge is less than fifty years old at the time of Construction as "an outstanding architectural triumph." XENGINEERING However,a cros sing connecting Lorain and Carnegie Avenues was envisioned at least as early as l9ll.It was advocated in a proposal
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001398, 34 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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