Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory
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 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.
National Register reference number.76001471- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,418 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,418 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory between 1853 and
1975: 1,083 Animalia, 275 Fungi, 50 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Burrell, Jabez and Robbins, House and Cheese Factory: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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From the nomination file
1,890 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
in the late Federal idiom, and the second a frame building formerly lintels and sills. The end walls are blank, except for one window in There is a cellar with a dirt floor under the entire house, where joists of unpeeled logs may be seen. Immediately behind the house (west) stands a frame structure. ation of random rubble stone, with a lower level which can be entered interior, which is one large room, is completely finished with CONDITION space. UNEXPOSED DESCRIPTION MOVED DETERIORATED UNALTERED preserved and maintained. The great majority of the original rooms, construction was added probably in the 1880s.
Its window openings This is a group of two buildings, one a two-story brick residence FAIR As cheese-making was an important and specialized activity, it required carved wooden mantelpieces, with a sunburst pattern and delicate fluting. XORIGINAL SITE its own buildings and equipment. The exterior is covered with vertical partitions and woodwork are intact.There is a central hall and stair. (west) of the house. Behind the original wing another block of brick original plaster on lath.Some of the plaster is deteriorated.At have segmental arches.At the southwest corner its cellar foundation siding, and the gable roof is shingled.
in its own right, because very few of the large number of buildings Jabez Burrell and Capt. John Day of Sheffield, Massachusetts. In 1816 of the marriage of Jabez' son, Robbins Burrell, and 1833, the death Another son, Jabez, Jr., was one of the nine original incorporators of Oberlin College, fifteen miles southwest of Sheffield, in 1834. In permit the operation of its famous manual labor program.
One branch 1600-1699 1700-1799 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD ECONOMICS LAW AGRICULTURE TRANSPORTATION THEATER COMMERCE SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE ART MILITARY SCIENCE MUSIC LITERATURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _CONSERVATION XINDUSTRY The exact dates of construction and operation of the cheese factory owned by the Lorain County Metropolitan Park District.
1836 Oberlin opened three branches to handle overflow students and -1500-1599 1900- was located at Sheffield, and Robbins Burrell "devoted his fine farm was justice of the Peace.The exact date of construction of the house the township for nearly 150 years, and it was closely associated with _COMMUNICATIONS house in its location.The dependent cheese factory.building is significant Day and Burrell built the township's first sawmill, and in 18l9 Burrell of Jabez Burrell. are not documented.Robbins Burrell died in 1877.The house is still This house hasbelongedto the family of the original proprietor of _INVENTION -1400-1499 the beginnings of Oberlin College.It isa very early two-story brick The entire township of Sheffield was purchased in1815 by Capt.
RELIGION and house to the enterprise."It only lasted one year. X1800-1899 SPECIFIC DATES ca. 1828 occupied by the last members of the Burrell family, although it is XEDUCATION Burrel brought his wife and eight children to Sheffield. The next year erected for this important Ohio industry are still in existence. is difficult to document.It was built some time between 1825,the date
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001471, 14 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.
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