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Green, Lucius, House

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 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4160 Main St., Perry, 44081
  • When was it listed? 1976-07-12
  • Category. building
  • Township. Perry township
  • National Register reference number. 76001462 - 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

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Green, Lucius, House between 2002 and 2002, burning about 20 acres 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

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
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 916 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 916 specimens collected within 10 miles of Green, Lucius, House between 1864 and 1975: 636 Animalia, 165 Plantae, 97 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1885Werner, WM.C.near Painesville
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.ClausenAthyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen1885Werner, Wm. C.Painesville
Specimen of Periploca graeca L.Periploca graeca L.1886Werner, WM.C.Near Painesville
A photograph of the species Leucodon brachypus, not of this specimenLeucodon brachypus Brid.1864E. J. Ferris
A photograph of the species Mnium spinulosum, not of this specimenMnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.1864E. J. FerrisPainesville
A photograph of the species Dicranella heteromalla, not of this specimenDicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Didymodon tophaceus, not of this specimenDidymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Discelium nudum, not of this specimenDiscelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus polycarpos, not of this specimenDrepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Orthotrichum stellatum, not of this specimenOrthotrichum stellatum Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.

All 916 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green, Lucius, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Painesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sidley's Painesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPerry$35,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power poles in Madison and Perry Townships.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPerry$25,000Thunderstorm winds damaged eight green houses.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindPerry$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and limbs across eastern Lake County.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindPerry$15,000Thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree. The tree landed on a house and caused some damage.
May 2014HailPerry-Quarter sized hail was observed.
August 2008HailPerry-Penny size hail was observed.
August 2008HailPerry-Penny size hail was observed.
July 2008HailPerry-Penny size hail was observed.
July 2006HailNorth Perry-Penny size hail was observed.
April 1994HailPerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

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

1,630 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

of the Italianate, Second Empire, Victorian Gothic, Eastlake, Queen CONDITION DESCRIPTION UNALTERED FAIR but the unique exterior design is almost completely intact. CHECK ONE blind arcade.The most remarkable features are on the east elevation unusual features is a tiny bracketed balcony at the cornice line This is a large wooden frame house for which there is no more of the house is divided and remodeled into several apartments, stick ornament. A veranda is wrapped around the southeast corner, and the southeast corner.On the east there is a shallow rectangular The wide cornice eaves shelter a bracketed frieze with a miniature pyramidal roof that is chateauesque in outline.One of the most The pitch of the main roofs is that of the Second Empire mansard.

corner of the house forms a tower which is crowned by a steep added behind the bay.The wall sheathing is horizontal clapboard.

with turned spindles in the fascia below the porch eaves.On the decades.On the north elevation there is a polygonal bay.There is with a small window opening into the tower room.The interior - DETERIORATED bay with large vertical windows.Above the bay is a small balcony south the original porte-cochere, with a fanciful pyramidal roof, Anne and Stick Styles, it is a High Victorian eclectic structure.The -UNEXPOSED -RUINS a small stoop in the ell of the bay, and a lean-to shed has been basic form of the house, a two-story block augmented by various with a rail pierced with circles, two turned spindle posts, and a steep gable roof framing a trefoil arch with pierced, carved and XALTERED projecting bays, is common to most houses of the post-Civil War accurate style designation than the overused "victorian."With elements AREAS OF

Statement of significance

especially for its location, a small village whose growth and prosperity clair as a partner, and then resumed the sole proprietorship. In 1878 MAR 1 7 1878 1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 COMMERCE INVENTION EDUCATION PERIOD RELIGION THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE TRANSPORTATION PHILOSOPHY EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT AGRICULTURE REGISTER XARCHITECTURE MILITARY NATIONAL _COMMUNICATIONS SCULPTURE LITERATURE RECEIVED OTHER(SPECIFY) ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC teenth century agriculturist of Perry Township.

This is an unusually pretentious Victorian eclectic structure, _CONSERVATION he had seventy-five acres under cultivation and had invested a capital nursery business was operated by his son Fred D.Green.The house Lake County has always been known for its vegetable, truck mid-1880s judging by the style.Its fantastic combination of architect- was built some time between 1878 and 1894,most probably in the in this small village which is now all but forgotten. 1894,his wife H.Corrilla lived in the house until 1919,and the of $30,000.Green and his wife had two children.After his death in - INDUSTRY lished in 1861 by Lucius Green.From 1869 to 1874he took L.C.Sin- -1900- - MUSIC - LAW ural elements would be rare in any location, but is especially so declined over fifty years ago.

It was built by a successful late nine- garden and nursery produce. The Western Reserve Nursery was estab-

The whole case file for this property - 1,630 words, 15 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 76001462, 15 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ladd's Tavern2.4 miles1978
Indian Point Fort3.1 miles1974
Fuller, Frances Ensign, House3.9 miles1980
Damon, George, House3.9 miles1980
Lyman, William, House4.0 miles1980
Pease, George, House4.2 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001462 in Record Group 79.
Lake CountyAll 75 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.
  • 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.