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
“The first schools in Independence were established east of the river. In 1850 the condition of the schools was as follows: school age, of which number one hundred and seventysix were between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years.”
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.79000294- 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
4,214 words
The chapter on Independence City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Independence. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In 1810 John I., Archibald and William Harper, sons of Colonel John Harper a celebrated Revolutionary soldier who lived in Delaware county, New York, ca'ie to Ashtabula county, in this State, and in 1816 John I. emigrated from there to Independence, settling on tract two, near where the canal now runs, where he died in August, 1849. He reared two sons, Erastus R., who yet lives on the homestead; De Witt C., who moved to Michigan; and three daughters, one of whom married H. G. Edwards, of Newburg. John Maxwell, a boy indentured to J. I. Harper, moved to Galena, Illinois, after he had attained manhood, and while discharging his duties as sheriff was killed by a man whom he attempted to arrest.
Colonel Rial McArthur became a resident of the township in 1833, but returned to Portage county in 1844. He was the surveyor of the eastern part of Independence in 1808, and attained the rank of colonel in the war of 1812. In 1810 John Wightman became a resident of Cleveland, living there until his death, in 1837. His daughter, Deborah L., became the wife of William H. Knapp, who settled in Independence in 1833, and both are yet living on the place they then occupied.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Packard-Doubler 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 1,481 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Packard-Doubler House between 1876 and
1975: 1,420 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 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 federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Packard-Doubler House: 4 producers, 4 past producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bloating Material, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Independence, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.
Runoff from heavy rains on January 5th caused the Cuyahoga River at Independence to quickly rise. The river went above the flood stage of 16 feet during the evening hours of the 5th. The river crested at 20.64 feet around 4 a.m on the 6th and went back below flood stage during the late afternoon hours of the 6th. Significant flooding occurred in the Valley View area. Many homes and businesses along Canal Road and Gleeson, Charles, Frances and Stone Streets were damaged by flooding.
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
1,694 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
It has a gable roof, a low stone foundation with basement, and the house reputedly were made on the site.I The house was painted white in 1931, and the shutters were CONDITION DETERIORATED DATE MOVED XGOOD FAIR CHECK ONE The Packard-Doubler House is situated on a winding semi-rural road March 1978. a simple one-and-one-half-story rectangle with a six-bay facade. clustered supports with trellises and exposed rafters with shaped There are two front entrances to the house, one admitting to what A one-story wood frame kitchen with clapboard siding was added on land now lying fallow.
rear of the kitchen encloses a stairway to the basement; a smaller tree frames the front of the house, which is surrounded by farm Although not part of this nomination, there is a barn near the shed attached to the main block encloses a bulkhead entrance to removed.A window in the south elevation has been bricked in. There is also a garage on the property. A huge black walnut _UNALTERED a brick dentil cornice that follows the rake of the gable and is and doors, which are extremely simple, appear to be original. the north side of the house c.189o.A woodshed attached at the _UNEXPOSED of the main block and to the kitchen in 1924; the porches feature Upstairs, there are three bedrooms and a hail.
Interior moldings double-hung, with 2/2 lights, and have dressed stone sills and XORIGINAL SITE -RUINS Interview with Elaine M. Doubler, Independence, Ohio, 29 interior end chimneys. the basement. lintels. The main block is Bungalow-style wooden porches were added to the front The house is of brick bearing-wall XALTERED There are two small rectangular windows in the rear wall, brick farmhouse with Greek Revival overtones. is now the dining room, and one to what is now the living room.
farmer, who sold it just four years later to France X. Doubler. The settled in Independence_township. In 1847, John Packard purchased Packard moved elsewhere in the township. He served for two years (1871-1872) as township trustee, and died in 1899; his wife, Sarah, Federal Population Census of Ohio, 1860, Cuyahoga County, Independence, p. 262. (Typescript, 1934), 1:197. ART 1600-1699 History 1400-1499 1700-1799 1900- ECONOMICS 1500-1599 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PHILOSOPHY EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT RELIGION THEATER PERIOD LAW BUILDER/ARCHITECT PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY MUSIC INDUSTRY SCULPTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT several Packard descendents still reside in nearby Brecksville.
The Packard-Doubler House is significant for its association with _TRANSPORTATION house has been in the Doubler Family ever since. the history of Independence, a predominantly rural community until _COMMUNICATIONS The Packard-Doubler House is a small traditional brick farmhouse with there was an earlier house on the property.In 1868,Packard sold John Packard was the son of Isaac and Hildah Packard.All three Valley, and its brick dentil cornice is especially unusual. _CONSERVATION _COMMERCE -ENGINEERING LITERATURE _EDUCATION house in 1864,although the 1858 map of Cuyahoga County indicates that France one of four children of Albert and the now consisting of sixty acres) to France X. Doubler.3 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _SCIENCE INVENTION Greek Revival overtones.
It was built in 1864 by John Packard, a AGRICULTURE The tax duplicate shows that he built the present brick D.W.Ensign & Co.,1879),p. 462; and The Western Reserve Historical
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000294, 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.
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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