Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RR Depot and Freight House
Built in http. 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
“Mentor is a former railroad depot located on Station Street in Mentor, Ohio. A defunct New York Central freight house is located across the tracks from the depot.”
Wikipedia article Mentor station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in http · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.78002092- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RR Depot and Freight House between
2003 and 2003, burning about 400 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
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 1,485 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RR Depot and Freight House between 1864 and
1975: 1,254 Animalia, 150 Plantae, 71 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RR Depot and Freight House: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mentor, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 waterspout.
The reports record 2 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.
Penny to hen egg sized hail was observed for several minutes in Mentor. Much of the hail was golf ball sized or larger. This resulted in many vehicles being damaged.
A weak tornado moved inland from Lake Erie and was on the ground in Mentor for a little less than one mile. Many trees were knocked down with a few homes sustaining minor damage.
A portion of Interstate 90, a main throughway, was closed between State Route 306 and State Route 615 due to flooding. Several disabled semi trucks that stalled in high water.
Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a house near the intersection of Center Street and Mentor Avenue in Mentor. Some tree limbs were also down in the area.
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
4,432 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 depot building is brick & stone, rectangular in plan and measures UNEXPOSED room. CONDITION UNALTERED DETERIORATED XALTERED FAIR CHECK ONE south end is the men's waiting room; the north end is the women's waiting canopy is supported by regularly spaced wood braces on stone corbels.On The remaining surface of the building is hard fired face brick.A stone the northwest side a high pitched gable with paired rectangular windows is the belt course. The north end has three rectangular windows with semi- placed above the projecting bay.
The ticket office and telegraph room face the tracks in the projecting a doorway, the other bays have rectangular windows.Above each is a rectangular Across the tracks is the freight house.It is also rectangular in plan but The southeast side follows the same design except for the center bay and light in the gable. X.EXCELLENT A gently curved slate hip roof sweeps out beyond the walls 7'.The overhang transom light.Each of the transom lights have diamond-shaped leaded panes. belt course of 8' width circumscribes the building at lintel height and ofthe building has a tall garage door;a:recent alteration.The north end end there is a small doorway and widow,-both segmental arched. The south end -RUINS above the transom windows. The northwest elevation faces the tracks. On bay.
Opposite the ticket office are the lavatories. The remainder of the braces. On the west and east sides are two wide segmental arched doorways to The gable.In its place are two rectangular windows placed high and straddling side of this projecting section there are three bays.The center bay houses this side there isa center projecting bay.There isa three-part window is gable roofed.The brick is pained.There is a low stone foundation. -GOOD AREAS OF
Statement of significance
number of such related buildings, as well as all railroad structures, The station was built ca. 1900. A line from Cleveland to Painesville was first opened in 1851 by the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula the Penn-Central. A revitalized transportation center would be 1400-1499 1700-1799 1600-1699 ART EDUCATION COMMERCE INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE COMMUNICATIONS PERIOD ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC CONSERVATION RELIGION SCIENCE THEATER LAW MILITARY MUSIC LITERATURE INDUSTRY _ENGINEERING _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT The pair of structures are architecturally fine and in excellent condition. a significant contribution to the area.
city wishes to purchase and restore and put back into use this fine recognized the building as significant to their city's past.The SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _PREHISTORIC the station can be put back into transportation use. X.TRANSPORTATION the Lake Shore G Michigan Southern Railroad. The decreasing Southern and in time became part of the N.Y.Central and eventually They are important and distinguished as examples of a stock style of railroad buildings adopted by one company at the height of their SPECIFIC DATES Ca. 1900 -x1900.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002092, 28 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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