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.79000295- 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 Rich, Charles B., 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 1,094 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Rich, Charles B., House between 1876 and
1974: 1,071 Animalia, 14 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 federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Rich, Charles B., House: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Bloating Material. 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
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
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From the nomination file
2,035 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
surrounds. (Some of the windows have 6/6 lights, and these probably Inside, the first floor consists of a central hall and stair, a ash, woodwork and doors are of black walnut. Upstairs, there are CONDITION DATE MOVED DETERIORATED FAIR heating system are the only obvious alterations that have occurred. documentation exists for these structures, although they are claimed The Charles B.Rich House is a plain, one-and-one-half-story piers and features vertical siding and a gable roof of corrugated one-story ell at the rear contains a kitchen, carriage house, to have been part of the original Charles Rich farmstead. in five bays wide and features a central entrance.A There is a barn and chicken coop at the rear of the house.The ans a thin, plain frieze.It is painted white.
XUNALTERED XORIGINAL SITE vertical siding, and a gable roof of corrugated metal.A lean-to CHECK ONE LRUINS parlor, two bedrooms, sitting room, and kitchen. A small pantry mullions. Windows are double-hung, with 2/2 lights, and have plain UNEXPOSED The connects the sitting room with the kitchen.Floors are of white and loft.The foundation is of random ashlar fieldstone and there structure of braced frame construction.The main block, rectangular is a basement.The house has a gable roof covered with asphalt barn is divided into two halves.It features a stone foundation, AREAS OF
Statement of significance
In 1835, Charles B. Rich and his wife, Jane Smith, emigrated June 1952, unpaged. History INVENTION 1800-1899 1700-1799 ART PERIOD ECONOMICS THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC 1900- XARCHITECTURE MILITARY TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY CONSERVATION SCULPTURE _COMMUNICATIONS SIGNIFICANCE The family may first have resided with relatives or friends before _COMMERCE XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PREHISTORIC Brecksville Celebrate Centennial of Brecksville Inn," Brecksville, _RELIGION grandson, Charles Kettlewell.
thus his presence in the township by this year is substantiated.) contained in this volume is based on an interview with Charles Rich's completed in 1874.Architecturally, the Rich House is typical of Revival farmhouse at the western edge of the Brecksville an early Brecksville settler who lived in the house until his of the Peace for nearly thirty years, and heard lawsuits in the _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _1600-1699 _1500-1599 MUSIC _PHILOSOPHY The Squire Rich Historical Museum is located in a modest Greek _EDUCATION of the Brecksville Early Settlers' Historical Association) purchasing its own farmstead in 1846 on the Brecksville Road just sitting room of his home until the Brecksville Town Hall was the houses built by the early settlers in the Brecksville region, death in 1883.Rich farmed the land and was a trustee of has served as a community museum since 1944.
XLAW historians. About the Rich House it has been written: "One Charlie _1400-1499 Rich as an owner of real property until 1846, when he is listed as the owner of fifty-five acres in lot #44. 0.,193937. (Mimeographed.) The information on the Rich family BUILDER/ARCHITECT Charles Richardson The house probably was constructed this and it survives in a very good state of preservation.The house (Rich first appears Metropolitan Park.It was built about 1846 for Charles B. Rich, Brecksville Township for a number of years. He served as Justice south of the village center.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000295, 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.
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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