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.79000287- 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. Museums hold 999 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Coonrad, Jonas, House between 1876 and
1974: 982 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Hall, 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 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
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
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From the nomination file
4,586 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
Coonrad House is a traditional brick farmhouse built in 1875. stretcher bond, and the house features tooled stone sills and A 'screened porch has been added on the south side, and the roofed bank barn with vertical siding, built in 1913, as well CONDITION RUINS EXCELLENT XALTERED single round-arch light and is reminiscent of the Second Empire Although the original eleven-room house has been divided, an Situated on the western rim of the Cuyahoga Valley, the Jonas what appears to be the original moldings are still intact.
Although not part of this nomination, there is a large gable The house has a plain ashlar sandstone foundation with a cut inspection of the first-floor apartment shows that much of outside end chimneys on the north and south walls probably _UNALTERED lights, and there is an oculus window in the gable. were added when the house was made into two apartments in 1954. house and the road. _UNEXPOSED main block is three bays wide with gable end facing the road. CHECK ONE The front entrance ison the left side.A lower two-story the 1960s is situated at the foot of the hill between the _FAIR original Coonrad barn burned down, and a cheese factory known DATE lintels.
The front entrance features a stilted rectangular wing projects from the rear of the main block, and there is century is no longer extant.A spring-fed pond created during a one-story ell on the north side.The red brick is laid in -UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 1 "he soon adapted himself to his new vocation and proved a success." Ohio, 4 April 1978. true today.
He was the son of Jacob Coonrad, a farmer and carpenter, and Mary 1857, he emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked as a clerk grocery business with his brother. A year and a half later, he Williston & Co.y:1859-60), p. 69. History 1875 INVENTION Valley. PHILOSOPHY ART PERIOD PREHISTORIC CONSERVATION Inscriptions," 2 vols. (Typescript, 1934), 1:60. 1700-1799 MILITARY BUILDER/ARCHITECT COMMUNICATIONS POLITICS/GOVERNMENT LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC Co., 1879), p. 411.
_EDUCATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT XARCHITECTURE _SCULPTURE .1600-1699 married Catherine Morten, the daughter of David and Susannah McKay with Brecksville township and agricultural development in the of the birth and death dates given were supplied by The Western .LITERATURE In 1866, the Coonrads returned to Cleveland, and Jonas entered the _1400-1499 same farm which she and her husband would later purchase.) _RELIGION _TRANSPORTATION the Wager stove foundry at Troy, New York.Three years later, about _1500-1599 from Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Morten.(Catherine had been born in Brecksville township, on the Ohio (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1894),p. 732.
Some -SCIENCE _INDUSTRY _MUSIC Crisfield Johnson wrote about Brecksville After two years he went to Quincy, Illinois, and worked who operated a substantial dairy farm and cheese factory on the Reserve Historical Society, comp., "Cuyahoga County Cemetery property. Architecturally, the Coonrad House is important as one Jonas Coonrad was born in 1836 in Rensselaer County, New York. of the finest late-nineteenth-century residences in the Cuyahoga "Dairying largely engages the attention The Jonas Coonrad House is significant for its historic associations This brick farmhouse was built in 1875 for Jonas Coonrad, 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000287, 29 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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