Secor Hotel

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

“Stevens Warren Flower, late a highly respected and influential citizen of Toledo, at one time a resident of Maumee, a gallant soldier in the great Civil war, and for many years an active and prominent figure in commercial and religious circles in the county, was a native of the old Empire State, having first beheld the light of day in the town of Clayton, Jefferson county, New York, Aug. 21, 1832. He was descended of highly honorable ancestry.”
Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo (1910). Machine-read text.

one of 65 National Register listings in Lucas County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lucas County.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · 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. 413--423 Jefferson Ave., Toledo, 43604
When was it listed? 1976-04-30
Category. building
Township. Toledo city
Architect. George S. Mills
National Register reference number. 76001475 - 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.

The ground it stands on

323,162 words

The chapter on Toledo City in Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, published 1910 names Toledo. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

In 1850 he entered into a professional partnership with H. B. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon, which continued for nineteen years, when Mr. Scribner removed to Toledo and became associated with the late Frank H. Hurd. Prior to this Mr. Scribner had been elected a member of the Ohio Senate from the district comprising Holmes, Wayne, Knox and Morrow counties, and while there he was chair¬ man of the Judiciary Committee. In the Senate he introduced the Criminal Code prepared by Frank H. Hurd, his predecessor in the Senate, and himself prepared the Municipal Code of the State.

Passage source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, published 1910.

Judge Scribner was married Oct. 20, 1847, to Miss Mary E. Morehouse, of Homer, Ohio, and was the father of four daughters and four sons, the eldest of whom became his business partner, in 1871, and is still a well known member of the Toledo bar.

Passage source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, published 1910.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Toledo City - 323,162 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 2,179 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,179 specimens collected within 10 miles of Secor Hotel between 1863 and 1975: 1,960 Animalia, 159 Fungi, 46 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aborn, R., Austing, G R, B H AND L W CAMPBELL 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1900	F.D. Kelsey	Toledo
Lupinus perennis L.	1900	Kelsey, F.D.	America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
Lepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray	1863	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Nelumbium luteum Willd.	1866	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)	1885	Collector(s): J. A. Singley	Toledo
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1885	Cooper, W.C.	Lambertville
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1889	J. Y. Pennypacker	Toledo
Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947	1893	not recorded	Toledo, Maumee River
Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	TOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin

All 2,179 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Secor Hotel: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Toledo Refinery Gulf	Sulfur	Plant
Lula Quarry Limestone	Limestone, General	Past Producer
White Brothers Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
White Brothers Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical Div	Iron	Producer
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service Inc	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms near this property

60 of 151 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toledo, the town this property stands in, in 151 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 78 thunderstorm wind, 56 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 storm surge/tide. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	1 killed, $100,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 50 to 55 mph toppled a crane hoisting a 5,000 pound bucket of concrete onto the roof a building in downtown Toledo. A 50 year old male worker on the roof was crushed by the falling bucket of concrete.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	1 killed, $3,000	Large limbs were downed. A 28-year-old man was killed after he unknowningly touched a vehicle which was in contact with a live electric line which had been downed after tree limbs were blown down across the wires. M28VE
July 2019	Flood	Toledo	$15,000,000	Several local and state parks adjacent to the lake have sustained millions of dollars in flood damage and erosion. Put-in-Bay Township had several roads wash out due to high water, with recurring standing water issues at Middle Bass Island's Burgundy Bay subdivision. The Lake Erie water levels flooded agricultural fields and resulted in no crops on some fields in Sandusky County. Several seasonal and year round properties need to be elevated due to repeated flooding this year.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Toledo	$1,000,000	Thunderstorms dumped locally heavy rainfall on portions of Lucas County during the afternoon hours of June 3rd. Rainfall rates at times exceeded two inches per hour. A total of 4.04 inches was measured near downtown Toledo. Widespread urban and lowland flooding was reported in Toledo and West Toledo. Flooding was reported on dozens of streets and highways including Interstate 475. Many roads had to be closed because of flood waters two to three deep. Many vehicles became stranded in the flood waters and several people had to rescued. Hundreds of homes sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding.
June 2007	Flash Flood	West Toledo	$500,000	Thunderstorms redeveloped over Lucas County and dumped more heavy rain on the area. Rainfall rates again exceeded two inches per hour. A daily total of 4.04 inches was measured near downtown Toledo. Flooding resumed across portions of West Toledo, Sylvania and Toledo. Several roads had to be closed because of the flooding. More vehicles became stranded and at least two more people had to be rescued. Hundreds of homes sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding.
September 1993	Hail	Toledo	$500,000	Large hail shattered windows at The University of Toledo and other locations. Crops were damaged and destroyed. Trees were downed in Toledo.
July 2006	Flash Flood	West Toledo	$350,000	An area of heavy rainfall developed over Lucas County during the morning hours of July 12th. In the western portion of Toledo, flood waters deep enough to cover the hoods of cars were reported. Rainfall estimates indicated that between two and four inches of rain fell across the area during the late morning and early afternoon hours. There was also a report of Shantee Creek flooding near Crawford Avenue.
July 2013	Hail	Toledo	$250,000	Golf ball sized hail was observed. Some vehicles were damaged.
August 2011	Hail	Toledo	$250,000	Hail as large as hen eggs fell on the Shoreland area for several minutes. Many vehicles were damaged by the hail.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Toledo	$250,000	Up to two inches of rain fell on the Toledo area as thunderstorms moved across Lucas County. A spotter in Toledo measured 1.1 inches during a 25 minute period ending around 4 p.m. Many streets in the city were flooded and had to be closed. Many homes sustained damage from basement flooding.
July 2012	Hail	Toledo	$200,000	Golf ball to hen egg sized hail was reported. Some vehicles were damaged by the hail.
April 1998	Storm Surge/Tide	Toledo	$200,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees across the county. From Maumee to the Greater Toledo area, numerous reports of large downed trees came in during this thunderstorm.
March 1998	Storm Surge/Tide	Toledo	$100,000	no account filed
February 1998	Storm Surge/Tide	Toledo	$100,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$75,000	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts tracked from South Toledo through the east side of Toledo and continued northeast to Oregon. Along this path, trained spotters reported numerous trees, large limbs, and at least a dozen power poles were down. Also, a billboard was blown down and caused damage to a car in South Toledo.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$75,000	Thunderstorm winds downed many large trees in Toledo. Several homes and cars were damaged by trees.
February 1998	Storm Surge/Tide	Toledo	$75,000	no account filed
June 2024	Flash Flood	Toledo	$50,000	Widespread flooded roadways across East Toledo and Oregon, including Front Street near Steel Street, where several feet of water on the road left vehicles stranded in floodwaters. Radar estimated 2.5 inches in one hour, and upwards of 3-3.5 inches in a 2 to 3 hour period. A CoCoRaHS rain gauge measurement in East Toledo reported a storm total rainfall amount of 3.30 inches, which matches radar estimates from the area.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$50,000	As severe thunderstorms moved through the area, trees, large limbs and power lines were reported down from West Toledo to Point Place. Trained spotters estimated wind gusts to be between 55 and 60 mph.
February 1997	Flash Flood	South Toledo	$50,000	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled two utility poles near the University of Toledo.
May 2011	Hail	Toledo	$30,000	Thunderstorms produced quarter to ping pong ball size hail.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs throughout Toledo. At least one home was damaged by a fallen tree.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees in Toledo. One of the trees landed on a moving car. The occupants of the car were unharmed. A house was also slightly damaged by a fallen tree.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled several utility poles.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	A few trees and utility poles were reported down from severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	A few large limbs and utility poles were downed as the northern edge of a line of severe thunderstorms moved through the area.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$25,000	Many large trees and limbs down. Utility wire down near the intersection of South and Reynolds Roads.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	Power poles were downed in Toledo and trees were downed in Holland.
December 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	Two tractor trailers were blown over on U.S. Route 23 at U.S. Route 20.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and over two dozen large limbs on the west side of Toledo.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large limbs in the city of Toledo. At least one home was struck by a falling tree.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree in Toledo. A home was damaged by the tree.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several small trees along Collingwood Boulevard and Cherry Street.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds caused a tree to fall on a car.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed six trees west of Toledo.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed three trees, many large limbs and a large advertisement sign on the south side of Toledo. One of the trees landed on a car.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$15,000	Trees, limbs and power lines were downed.. A 63 mile per hour wind gust was recorded at Toledo Express Airport.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed an 18-inch diameter tree onto a vehicle. The vehicle sustained significant damage.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed an eight inch diameter tree onto a house.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a building.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Several trees were reported down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	Numerous trees and large limbs were downed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$8,000	Small strip of shingles removed from roof at residence in Toledo.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$8,000	A few trees and power lines were reported down.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$6,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	The Emergency Manager reported 20 or more tree limbs down in Toledo. In addition a large 3-4 foot diameter trees was brought down but was rotten.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large tree limbs in the area.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds at approximately 60 mph. Numerous large limbs were reported down.
April 2003	Hail	Toledo	$5,000	Dime size hail was observed. The hail completely covered the ground.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Near Maumee Bay, winds estimated at 60 miles per hour downed power lines, blew a temporary sign off a bridge, and left a few branches lying in roads.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Trees were downed, some on power lines, in several locations.

Every storm recorded in Lucas County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. 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.

Newspaper	Published
Ameryka Echo	1902 to 1971
Toledo Union Journal	1942 to Current
Ameryka W Toledo I Kuryer Clevelandski	1892 to 1892
Ameryka W Toledo	1891 to 1892
Ameryka	1893 to 1902
Ameryka	1889 to 1891
Toledo	1931 to 1971
Toledo Hungarian-American Weekly	1930 to 1931

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

1,649 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

The first floor, faced with bands of smooth stone block, has a segmental stone blocks, resembling quoins, on either side of the end bays. The west side of the hotel is similar, though it has eleven bays. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DATE DESCRIPTION MOVED DETERIORATED UNALTERED second floors. level. CHECK ONE XEXCELLENT been altered.Above the large windows and the entry are carved stone The massive cornice is supported by chunky brackets and has a ceiling was lowered.The tap room and coffee shop were decorated in lion heads.There is a course of carved stone between the first and The next seven floors are unadorned except for ranks of rectangular is a small balcony supported by massive carved stone brackets.
The ten story hotel building is brick with stone facing and has story is yellow brick, set in bands.There are keystones above ORIGINAL SITE The remainder of the floors have windows in sets of two in the The tenth floor is yellow brick.There are various cartouche each window which interrupt a fret band.In the center bay there middle five bays and single windows in the outer bays.All the style.The skylight from the original lobby was removed and the Each of these ranks has a large stone cartouche at the ninth floor designs of stone in the rectangular panels between the windows. entrance is on the Jefferson Street side and is seven bays wide. band of small lion heads which continues all around the building. The east facade is unadorned.
windows close to the entry and two larger windowsof the same design On July 1,1934,the hotel closed for renovation and remodelling. to the second floor lounge and modern ballroom. -RUINS -GOOD Walker and Weeks, Cleveland architects, supervised the work. The new Secor opened October 6, 1934.

Read the complete 1,649-word case file.

Statement of significance

modern era in Toledo's hotel history. George S. Mills, a prominent opened with a high ceilinged lobby, waiting rooms, dining rooms, billiard the Secor offered "comforts and luxuries of life equal to that in a king's 1908 1500-1599 1700-1799 INVENTION COMMUNICATIONS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION CONSERVATION PERIOD EDUCATION THEATER ART AGRICULTURE MILITARY BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHY POLITICS/GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY LAW SCIENCE SCULPTURE PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ficant as one of the early buildings with a reinforced concrete structure. outstanding local architectsmakes the Secor an outstanding example of -1400-1499 The simplicity of the Mills design and the fact that he was one of the George S.
Mills -1800-1899 - LITERATURE -1600-1699 palace" -1900- - MUSIC COMMUNITY PLANNING rooms, 400 rooms, 300 of which had private baths, and large meeting In typical promotional style, one writer claimed that The opening of the Secor Hotel in 1908 marked the beginning of the local architect, designed the ten story structure. The Secor originally as "Toledo's leading hotel". Local promoters compared the Secor with the finest hotels in the large cities and used it as and example of the early twentieth century Toledo architecture. The building is also signi- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Despite the interior changes the exterior design remains nearly unchanged. city's progress. rooms for conventions.In 1915 the Toledo Times described the Secor

The whole case file for this property - 1,649 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 76001475, 13 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Commodore Perry Hotel	under 500 feet	1997
Brand, R., and Company	under 500 feet	1975
Riverview	0.1 miles	2012
The Broer-Freeman Building	0.1 miles	2020
Spitzer Building	0.1 miles	1983
Fort Industry Square	0.2 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001475 in Record Group 79.
Lucas County	All 65 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.
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.