Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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
“Moses Hunt was born in Stratford, Orange Co., Vt. Aug. 5, 1809, and was the youngest son of Moses and Judith (Roberts) Hunt, both of whom were natives of Vermont, the former being born in Hopkinton, Jan. 19, 1774, the latter at Stratford, July 31, 1773.”
History of Cuyahoga County Ohio (1870). Machine-read text.
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.78002035- 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
4,612 words
The chapter on Brecksville City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Brecksville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Brecksville was surveyed in 1811 by Alfred Wolcott, Ksq., and in June of that year the first settlement in the township was made, by Seth Paine and Melzar Clark, who came from Western Massachusetts. The former located on lot sixty-four, in the extreme southwestern part of the township, and died there before 1818. Ile hada family of two sons - Oliver N. and 8. White - and two daughters. One of them, Almira, married Melzar Clark, who soon after removed to Royalton. After his death the widow married Henry Bangs of that township.
Game, also, was very abundant. We have described the great Hinckley hunt on page sixty-six of the general history, but we add a few facts not known when that description was written. It originated at the house of Seth Paine, in this township in December, 1818. A meeting was held and officers appointed; Cary Oakes being captain for Brecksville, John Ferris captain for Royalton, Judge John Newton for Richfield, and "Squire Freyer for Brunswick. As remembered in Brecksville, the number of deer killed was three hundred and sixty-five; of bears, seventeen; of wolves, five. These figures differ a little from those previously given, but either set shows a very good day's work.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Knowlton, Dr. William A., House between
1993 and 2000, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,113 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Knowlton, Dr. William A., House between 1876 and
1974: 1,085 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Knowlton, Dr. William A., House: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Bloating Material. 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
Brecksville, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood.
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.
Significant flooding of the Chippewa Creek in the Brecksville Reservation notably in the Brecksville Metropark Reservation. The USGS gage at Chippewa Creek reached a stage of 8.37 feet at 725 PM with a flow of 3,360 cfs. This falls between a 25 and 50 year flood. Flooding started in Broadview Heights as early as just after 6 PM with flooding of Broadview, Riverview, and Wiese Roads and by 7 PM the fire department had advised the area about flooding. The Winding Creek area saw high water levels.
Heavy rain moved across north central Ohio around 4 PM. This storm produced up to 2 inches of rain in about an hour resulting in flash flooding. In Brooklyn Heights Brecksville Road was flooded with 2 feet of water and closed. Intersection of Greenhaven and Weise Road was flooded in the town of Brecksville.
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
3,154 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
CONDITION MOVED FAIR XUNALTERED CHECK ONE XGOOD segmentally-arched windows, with segmentally-arched hoodmolds and wooden keystones, are used on this block and on the sides of the rear Both the original house and the rear wing have shiplap siding and arched transom light and a slightly shouldered, segmentally-arched Its main cubical block and side bay-windowed wing stand on a dressed modern storm windows. The main block has a bracketed and paneled cornice.One over one The Dr.William A. Knowlton House is a two story Italianate appears to be relatively unaltered. narrow cornerboards. _DETERIORATED DATE.
_EXCELLENT wing.The facade has elongated first story windows which have been ashlar foundation and are crowned by a hip roof.An early one and one- corner lot, well protected by high hedges from nearby half story gable-roof addition extends from the rear of the main - UNEXPOSED The facade and bay-windowed wing have single-bay porches with enclosed side porch.
The interior of the house, with its dark oak trim, surround.The rear wing has a small shed-roof addition and a glass- modified, along with the other first story openings, by the addition of Several outbuildings are located on the property, among them an outhouse are unusual inasmuch as they employ shaped brackets in place of im- post blocks.The main, paneled, double-door entry has a segmentally- bracketed and paneled cornices and chamfered posts and shed with shiplap siding.The house stands on a modestly landscaped AREAS OF
Statement of significance
by its bracketed and paneled cornice, "keystoned" window surrounds, and blocks, an unusual local building treatment. Dr. William A. Knowlton was born in Olmsted Falls, Ohio in 1839. Like is indicated by its construction of a scale model of the house, on exhibit at ART EDUCATION INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC XARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE PERIOD SCIENCE MILITARY INDUSTRY SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT to its use as a doctor's office, the building housed the town's public library, Unlike many of the other surviving nineteenth century Brecksville houses, significance lies with its ornate Italianate details and its historical associa- the local library. The Dr.William A.
Knowlton House is Brecksville's most outstanding Cleveland where he developed a prestigeous medical practice and served XSOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _ENGINEERING _CONSERVATION lished a practice in Brecksville and subsequently built this degrees from Wooster University and Western Reserve College, he estab- _COMMERCE ornate porches.It also features posts with brackets replacing the impost Less than a decade after the house was completed, Dr.Knowlton moved to as chairman of the obstetrics department at Wooster University.The house _COMMUNICATIONS the Dr.William A.Knowlton House has remained virtually -1400-1499 -1700-1799 _THEATER tions with Dr. Knowlton and Dr.Bourn, two of Brecksville's earliest and -1600-1699 -1500-1599 with Mrs.
Bourn acting as - LITERATURE Italianate dwelling. built between 1879 and 1880 for Dr.William A Knowlton, - MUSIC - - 1900- - LAW PREHISTORIC : COMMUNITY PLANNING a prominent physician in the community. It is architecturally distinquished PHILOSOPHY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT his father and brother, he pursued a career in medicine. Upon receiving ( Unpublished manuscript), 1974.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002035, 21 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.
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.
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