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
“The wild beasts still roamed with great freedom close to the houses of the settlers, and numerous were the fatal shots fired at the deer, not only in their forest retreats but even in the edge of the clearings. Stowe speaks of killing thirty or forty in a year.”
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.78002050- 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
6,580 words
The chapter on Strongsville City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Strongsville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
To that cabin in the forepart of March, 1816, came John Hilliard, accompanied by his wife (the first white woman who ever resided in Strongsville township), and his young daughter, Eliza. Mrs. Hillard took up her residence in the log mansion and became the housekeeper of the party. A surveyor was obtained from Newburg, and the work of subdividing the township into lots was speedily begun. Whitney, Goodell, Church and Fuller acted as chain-men. The lots were made half a mile square, thus containing a hundred and sixty acres each. Had the townships been just five miles square, as was originally intended, there would have been just a hundred lots of that size. A hundred lots were actually surveyed, but the five miles east and west did not quite hold out, and the lots in the westernmost tier were only about a third of a mile wide. They were numbered, beginning with number one in the southwestern corner, thence running north to number ten, in the north_ western corner, thence baek in the next tier on the east to number twenty, and so on forth and back, closing with number one hundred in the northeastern corner.
Not only was there no grain in the new settlement, but it was extremely scarce in the older localities around, owing to the cold summer of 1816. Mr. Abial Haines mentions that in January, 1817, he was compelled to go as far as Harrisville, (now on the south line of Medina county) some thirty miles distant from Strongsville, to. obtain wheat. The road could with difficulty be traveled by a yoke of oxen with a sled; the wolves came in sight after dusk, showing their angry teeth, but declining to come in reach of young Haines stout club, and after he arrived in Harrisville he had to thresh his wheat and winnow it with a "'hand-fan" before he could get it. The price was a dollar a bushel.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 667 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Stone, Valerius C., House between 1891 and
1975: 611 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Woolman, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 National Weather Service names
Strongsville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Thunderstorm winds downed a couple trees and some power lines in Strongsville. A house along Deerfield Drive was damaged by a fallen tree. At least 3000 electric customers in Strongsville lost power during this event.
Several reports came in via social media and broadcast media of thunderstorm winds causing several trees down near the Stillbrooke residential development in Strongsville.
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
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From the nomination file
1,642 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
of Greek and Italianate ornamental detail. The two-story, three-bay, hipped- capitals, repeats the cornice treatment of the main block. of the main block. Several outbuildings, a pond, and a pavilion are CONDITION DATE MOVED EXCELLENT UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED FAIR windows have stilted arched hood molds.Stilted flat-arched hoodmolds flushboarded facades, and full-width recessed porches with dentilled on the cornice frieze.The second story has segmental-arched windows cornices.The square porch posts have scalloped capitals and carry roof central block has a flushboarded facade and both dentils and brackets have been truncated by the addition of storm windows and a storm door.
The center porch stoop, supported by polygonal posts with scalloped windows with hoodmolds, although these, along with the main entrance, A one-and-a-half story ell plan frame structure, standing on a stone but is largely concealed by trees and shrubbery. The relatively wooded site faces open fields bordering on a nearby industrial park. foundation and presently used as a garage, extends from the west rear _UNALTERED are carried over the entrances. located to the rear of the house.The house is fronted by a broad lawn CHECK ONE -GOOD RUINS ornate tracery bracketing on their impost blocks. The tall round-arched a blind louvered opening. The first story has elongated round-arched The flanking one-and-a-half story, three-bay wings have gabled roofs, AREAS OF
Statement of significance
survival within an industrially zoned area. 1600-1699 1869 COMMERCE ART EDUCATION ENGINEERING ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE INDUSTRY property in 1852 and completed the present house in 1869. Although tax MILITARY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ardent supporter of Strongsville's cultural interests.
This house, which has survived virtually intact from its construction in LITERATURE ically significant as the residence of Stone, a successful farmer and _1700-1799 Berea Savings and Loan detail make the Stone house an outstanding example of the transition The winged central block plan and the combination of Greek and Italianate Lyceum (1869) and the Strongsville Library (188l), one of the first records and early atlases indicate new construction, it is possible that prosperous farms, Valerius C. Stone helped found the Strongsville _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT and historical significance is even more notable because of the structure's 1860 tax map.
MUSIC Valerius may have renovated an earlier structure which appears on an _COMMUNICATIONS free libraries in the Western his retirement from SCULPTURE SPECIFIC DATES _RELIGION _CONSERVATION combination of a Greek Revival plan with rather ornate Italianate his brother, Montraville, acquired the land.Valerius purchased the 1869,is one of the few residences from the period in Strongsville, and between the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. The house's architectural with his family, he moved to Strongsville in the l830s, at which time In addition to developing the property into one of Strongsville's most X1800-1899 -1400-1499 -1500-1599 farming in 1883,he moved to Berea where he was a trustee of the -1900- _THEATER - LAW Valerius C.
Stone was born in Hinesburg, Vermont, in 1820. Together INVENTION one of the best examples of its type in Cuyahoga County.It is histor- The Valerius C. Stone house is architecturally distinguished by the History of Strongsville (Berea, O., 1903) Strongsville Historical Society, History of Strongsville (1967), I.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002050, 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.
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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