Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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 1979 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.79000286- 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 Burt, William, 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 1,092 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Burt, William, House between 1876 and
1974: 1,070 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 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 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
1,900 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
construction. It has an ashlar sandstone foundation and The Burt House has undergone numerous alterations. Most apparent is a long, narrow wooden porch, partially screened, block have been altered from their original 6/6 lights to 2/2, extensively remodeled, although some original woodwork is Park System, land to the south and east of the house is CONDITION EXCELLENT UNEXPOSED intact. UNALTERED XALTERED golf course and clubhouse north of the Burt House.
siding with cornerboards.The five-bay facade has a central of the Brecksville Reservation of the Cleveland Metropolitan entrance that features narrow pilasters and a three-part The William Burt House is a one-and-one-half-story farmhouse When viewed from the southwest, the house has the distinct are four small rectangular windows beneath the frieze.Other and south elevations have gable returns. gable form that appears to be original.The discrepancy in itself has been enlarged at the rear, and the windows and probably of stone, has been removed; the front door is not The Burt House is situated on a five-lane road opposite a CHECK ONE _RUINS FAIR X GOOD There is a public windows are double-hung, with 2/2 lights.
They have plain DATE Some foundation The windows in the main stones have been replaced with cinder block.The front and decorative shutters have been added. in the Greek Revival style.The house is of braced frame asphalt roof. The house is painted white with green trim. used by the current occupants. from the rear of the house on the north side.Both north Inside, the house has been surrounds.There is a central chimney at the rear of the main block and another in the one-story ell.There is a rolled that runs the length of the ell on the north side.The ell doors in the ell have been altered. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Massachusetts. According to one history, "She was quite a Brecksville, Ohio. D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879), p. 415. 1841 History 1700-1799 1500-1599 COMMERCE 1600-1699 ECONOMICS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC THEATER COMMUNICATIONS ART ENGINEERING BUILDER/ARCHITECT INVENTION PERIOD INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE TRANSPORTATION MILITARY POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 2:687. LITERATURE X1800-1899 SCIENCE _PHILOSOPHY successful horticulturist, having many rare and beautiful plants was built that year. settler who had emigrated with his wife and child from Massachusetts. Brecksville Historical Association files, Brecksville Library. wife and young son about 1833.A reference to William Burt in for those early times, her flower garden being the admiration of in northeast ohio.
- CONSERVATION The William Burt House is a modest farmhouse in the Greek Revival was a farmer.His wife, Thankful Strong, was also a native of -SCULPTURE in Lot #44,and a notation in the tax duplicate shows the house Charles Sidney was born in 1837;John S.Burt died in 1841 at age _1400-1499 maturity:William was age eighteen at the time of the 185o Census; Women of the Western Reserve,2 Savage,1897), _EDUCATION - RELIGION _1900- -MUSIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING everyone."3 The Burts had four children, only two of whom reached style.
It was built in 1841 by William Burt, an early Brecksville ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC LAW William Burt was one of four children of Gaius and Hannah Burt an early history of the county shows that he was in Brecksville Thus the house represents the story of settlement in the Western He was born Last Will and Testament of Gaius Burt,"Burt Family" file,
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000286, 13 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.
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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