Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number.78002042- 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.
Then and now
1901 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19011994
The ground it stands on
23,212 words
The chapter on Cleveland City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Cleveland. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
At the Erie Conference M. EK. Church, in the fall of 1838, resolutions were passed dis approving any expression by the churches on the question of American slavery. This action was received with disfavor by a portion of the members of the church in Cleveland. On September 1, 1839, an organization was effected, consisting of about sixty members, who withdrew from the First Methodist Episcopal Church for that purpose. This new church stood alone until May, 1843. when it sent delegates to a convention held at Utica, New York, and there went into the organization which has ever since been known as the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America.
John W. Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1802. He resided in Chenango county, New York, from 1820 to 1825, when he removed to Cleveland, where he has ever since lived. He was admitted to the bar the next year, and for several succeeding years was engaged in the active practice of his profession.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,024 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Stager-Beckwith House between 1849 and 1975: 3,601 Animalia, 217 Fungi, 126 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. Newhall 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
19 workings within 5 miles of Stager-Beckwith House: 10 unknowns, 6 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, Halite. 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
Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 11 flash flood, 3 lightning.
The reports record 3 deaths and 6 injuries. 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.
During a sailboat race on Lake Erie, two people who were not wearing life preservers, were swept overboard by high waves and drowned. A total of four boats capsized and twelve people were swept overboard.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 35 to 40 mph blew down two large tents on the west side of Cleveland. Three people inside were injured when the tents collapsed. One person was hospitalized. A peak wind gust of 36 mph was measured at nearby Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
During the afternoon hours of the 2nd, a severe thunderstorms moved over downtown Cleveland. This thunderstorm remained nearly stationary over the downtown area for around an hour, and dropped as much as four and a half inches of rain. Several rainfall reports of 3.0 to 4.5 inches were received from downtown Cleveland. This rain fell in less than 90 minutes. Local streets and highways throughout the downtown area quickly filled with water. Many roads, including Interstate 90 were impassable by flood waters as much as four feet deep. Many vehicles became stranded in the flood waters. Once the rain ended, the high water receded quickly. This was a very local event in Cuyahoga County as the southern part of the county remained mainly dry. In fact, Cleveland Hopkins Airport did not receive any rainfall from this thunderstorm.
Heavy thunderstorm rain caused widespread flooding of roads and low lying areas in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. In Newburgh Heights, Interstate 77 was flooded with three to four feet of water and an elderly couple had to be rescued from their floating car. Over five inches of rain was measured in some southern and eastern sections as storms repeatedly crossed the area for several hours.
Thunderstorms dumped up to three inches of rain on downtown Cleveland during the late afternoon hours. A television station located just east of downtown recorded 2.75 inches of rain in only 48 minutes. Major street flooding occurred and dozens of cars became stuck in water up to four feet deep. Several motorists had to be rescued from their vehicles.
Broadcast media posted a photo on social media of a large tree that fell on a house on the west side of Cleveland. The time was radar estimated. The media also reported 25,000 residents within the metropolitan Cleveland area lost power. One Giant Eagle grocery store had to throw out all of their refrigerated items after losing power. Tree limbs were also reported down on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3.5 inches fell over Cleveland during a span of 60-90 minutes. Citywide flooding resulted as storm water systems were overwhelmed. Many roads including I 480 were flooded and closed for a brief period.
The Big Creek in Cuyahoga County (drainage basin 35.3 square miles) cuts through parts of Brooklyn and Cleveland before draining into the Cuyahoga River. On the morning of the 7th radar estimated rainfall amounts between 1.5 and 1.75 inches over the Big Creek basin. Some roads adjacent to the creek were closed. Most notably, the Cleveland Metropark Zoo was closed as water flooded their parking lots and threatened the veterinary clinic and other buildings.
16 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
has a convex mansard roof with curbing along its upper edge, hipped gable The bracketed cornice with its wide frieze continue uninterrupted beneath The interior is in good condition with a large central hall, a straight-run stair- CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED DATE DETERIORATED EXCELLENT XALTERED DESCRIPTION brackets above the sidelighted entrance.The main roof repeats the mansard architectural integrity.
windows on the ground floor have a small iron balcony.Recent alterations cornice, and a projecting molding at the third level which accents the pointed segmentally-arched with individually carved floral ornament which serves as for the round-arched windows in these gables, all of the other fenestration is The rear wing is an irregular mass of gabled forms with a light grey stucco and porte-cochere; and the elimination of the iron cresting along the roof.
dormers with round-arched windows and scalloped surrounds, a wide bracketed style.It is of masonry construction with a white stucco surface and is attached pair of segmentally-arched windows and a balcony with corner urns and carved outdoor tennis courts through large round-arched windows.Although the rear arched hoodmold and central window with its plate tracery.Below this are a include the removal of the front porch, with its paired columns, segmental arches, the barrel-vaulted dormers and the hipped gables on the side elevations.Except CHECK ONE clustered Gothic columns flanking many of the doors and windows.
toa rear wing which contains an athletic club.The central entrance tower surface.It contains a variety of athletic facilities, gyms, and squash courts, wing is quite bulky, the mansion still dominates the site and maintains its - MOVED -FAIR X.GOOD hoodmolds and supports for the projecting window sills.
It is also an important landmark in Cleveland's social life, once the residence since 1845. He became associated with Frederick Sterling and George Welch, forming the Beckwith, Sterling and Company and specializing in carpeting and possession of the house until 1909. its activities.
Its membership of the city's leading educators, businessmen, and professionals made the club a focus of Cleveland's social life, renting it 1400-1499 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 COMMERCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT XARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE RELIGION MILITARY THEATER INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION X1800-1899 LITERATURE SCULPTURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT is an interesting cross between the Italianate and Second French Empire styles. streets in the country.
_COMMUNICATIONS T.Sterling Beckwith.Mr.Beckwith had operateda dry-goods store in Cleveland XSOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN This threat only underscores the importance of the Stager-Beckwith house as mansions that gave Euclid Avenue the reputation as one of the finest residential has made the house's future uncertain. While the University Club still occupies the property, declining membership and offices in the North during the Civil War.In 1869,he sold the house to incorporated in 1898, with its original 140 members representing 40 educational and later the club of its leading merchants and scholars.
In 1913,the house was converted into the University Club.The organization was As the last remaining 19th Century mansion from the period when Cleveland's of the Western Union Telegraph Company and directed all of the telegraph lines Euclid Avenue was known as "Millionare's Row",the Stager-Beckwith house an early example of its architectural style and as the last of the late 19th Century _ECONOMICS _PHILOSOPHY -1900- -MUSIC INVENTION The house was built for Anson Stager in 1863. He was the general superintendent institutions. The club, however, was as. much recreational as intellectual in out for dances and making its private rooms available to visiting college students.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002042, 11 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.
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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