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Cook, Zimri, 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 27 National Register listings in Medina County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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. 6999 Spieth Rd., Lester, 44256
  • When was it listed? 1976-06-22
  • Category. building
  • Township. York township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 76001487 - 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

550 words

This property stands in York Township. Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 York Township - 550 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 334 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 334 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cook, Zimri, House between 1884 and 1975: 295 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] 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 Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Nesaea verticillata (L.) KunthNesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Lilium canadense, not of this specimenLilium canadense L.1888E. BarrickChatham
A photograph of the species Aleurodiscus oakesii, not of this specimenAleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Lobaria amplissima, not of this specimenLobaria amplissima (Scop.) Forssell1894Francis D KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Mnium stellare, not of this specimenMnium stellare Hedw.1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Mycosphaerella macularis, not of this specimenMycosphaerella macularis (Fr.) J.Schröt.1894Kelsey F. D.Penfield
A photograph of the species Rhodobryum ontariense, not of this specimenRhodobryum ontariense (Kindb.) Paris1894F. D. KelseyPenfield

All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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

1,988 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

frieze board, narrow corner boards, and a fairly elaborate entrance CONDITION DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED UNALTERED FAIR RUINS treatment consisting of a slightly gabled architrave with a drop X_EXCELLENT attached wing to the west.The walls are covered with horizontal These features are from the Italiana Villa style.The west wing a main two-story rectangular block with a one-and-a-half story molding, and a doorway and sidelights with shallow blind arches. This is a moderate size wooden frame house with features of This entrance composition is nearly identical with that on a more also appears on the other house.

has a recessed porch at the first story next to the house.This CHECK ONE typical five-bay house a mile to the south on the Medina Road, clapboard siding.The main block has three bays on the south probably by the same builder. All of these elements are those both the Greek Revival and the Italian Villa styles.It consists of - UNEXPOSED of the Greek Revival style. The roof of the main block is hipped, facade and four on the east elevation. There is a wide unornamented -GOOD AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Zimri Cook was born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1813. is a Republican in politics, and an intelligent gentleman. " The 1400-1499 1600-1699 1700-1799 INVENTION SCIENCE CONSERVATION 1800-1899 LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ENGINEERING AGRICULTURE PHILOSOPHY PREHISTORIC ART The LITERATURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE RELIGION INDUSTRY existence of a substantial house.

ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT built by an early resident of York Township whose chief distinction _TRANSPORTATION _ECONOMICS _SCULPTURE ical facts, plus the analogy with the house on the Medina Road, _COMMUNICATIONS 1869.Zimri married Elizabeth Brown in 1843 and they had six Zedelia and Zejames.The father died in 1849 and Mrs.Cook in _COMMERCE The children were: Zuriel, Zerena, Zerema, Zimri, Zephrona, and he remarried in 1865. The county history stated that Mr. Cook This is an unusually fine example in its locality of a house with In l832 his parents Zurial and Polly Cook settled in York Township. may be the fact that he was one of fourteen children, all of whose suggest a date sometime around 1845-1850.

In the 1850 United States features of both the Greek Revival and Italian Villa styles.It was - EDUCATION exact date of the house is not known, but the style and the biograph- _1900- Census his real estate was valued at $5,0o0,which implies the - MILITARY children (none beginning with "z").Cook's first wife died in 186l, names began with "z" Zerusha, Zetna, Zegüstus, Zelora, Zethaniel, Zeruth, Zelotus,

The whole case file for this property - 1,988 words, 14 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 76001487, 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
York United Methodist Church1.3 miles1978
St. Martin's Catholic Church3.1 miles1975
Gayer, Jacob, House3.6 miles1979
Frank, Charles, House And Store3.9 miles1975
Parmelee House4.0 miles1979
Medfair Heights Apartment Historic District4.2 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001487 in Record Group 79.
Medina CountyAll 27 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.