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
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.79000297- 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
3 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ulyatt, Abraham, House between
1993 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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
Natural
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 2,893 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ulyatt, Abraham, House between 1850 and
1975: 2,494 Animalia, 213 Fungi, 107 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 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 Ulyatt, Abraham, 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
Valley View, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
Nearly 4.5 inches of rain was reported over southern Cuyahoga County. The resulting flooding was primarily to roads and infrastructure, but there was some basement flooding mainly in the Berea area. Some impacts include widespread metropark flooding. The Canal Road in Valley View was closed from Rockside to Stone due to sinkhole conditions. In Macedonia there was a partial bridge collapse.
The tornado touched down near Schrieber Road then travelled south into Summit County. The damage path was around four miles in length and was non-continuous. Approximately 200 trees were downed along the damage path. A house in Valley View had several windows blown out and also suffered roof and chimney damage. The roof of the house was penetrated in couple of spots by flying debris. A small building nearby was blown off of its foundation and a car was also significantly damaged in the area. Several other homes and a barn sustained roof damage from fallen trees and one house had all of its window screens blown out. A semi trailer was flipped on its side near Hub Park.
The Cuyahoga River at Independence, a river forecast site, reach moderate flood stage. The river reached flood stage around 8 pm on the 15th, exceeded moderate flood stage a few hours later, and crested at 20.9 feet at 6 am on the 1th. The river came out of banks flooding roads in the Valley View community. Some garages and basements were flooded, but damage was limited. The major flood stage, 21.0 feet, was recently raised due to extensive mitigation efforts which were validated during this event.
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
1,850 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 present owner, the pilasters became loose and fell off Curiously, the top third of the rear (east) wall is made of the present owner claims, there once was a porch that extended original front door surround, as mentioned, has been replaced Inside, the Ulyatt House features a central hall plan with two 1978. CONDITION DETERIORATED EXCELLENT laid individually with mortar. FAIR The Abraham Ulyatt House is a one-and-one-half-story rectangular interior has been extensively remodeled. _UNALTERED plain ashlar sandstone and has a cut stone water table with to finish the house with wood in the least conspicuous place. Irregular stonework above the door and windows indicates that, The south elevation features a central door flanked by windows.
with an ashlar pattern to give the appearance of having been present red brick was used to fill the void and to close up five-bay facade with a central entrance.It has a wide, plain paired double-hung windows with 6/6 lights that are connected windows have been added and the original doors have been replaced. Four tie rods have been installed to stabilize the house.The The windows are double-hung, with 6/6 lights, and have dressed when a furnace with a central chimney was installed.Storm stone sills and lintels. The facade features tooled stone with margins:The entrance -UNEXPOSED a spring, traces of which still may be seen in the basement. CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE the full width of this wall. XGOOD The house has a Interview with Bessie E.
Birth, Valley View, Ohio, 28 March DATE The windows are XALTERED divided by stone pilasters. The interior end chimneys were removed in i942 The windows are set within round arch clapboard siding; one can only speculate that the builder had sandstone house in the Greek Revival style.
p. 463. 1500-1599 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC The ART PERIOD POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE INVENTION XARCHITECTURE a person with considerable talent and imagination. SCIENCE The windows are recessed within round arches that contain voussoirs MUSIC the agricultural pursuits which engage a majority of the township intended eventually to construct an addition to the house. location on a hillside overlooking a well-preserved section of the _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT quite refined--even elegant--the rest of the house is rather crude. the rear wall is finished with clapboard siding instead of stone. The design of the facade is especially notable for its originality.
_CONSERVATION _COMMUNICATIONS -TRANSPORTATION The Abraham Ulyatt House is important as one of the few stone houses The stonework beneath the half-story windows in the south wall is X1800-1899 _ENGINEERING _PREHISTORIC _EDUCATION assembled the land on which he built the house in 1841 and 1842.The -1400-1499 _1600-1699 - RELIGION The Ulyatt House, built in 1849,is a good - MILITARY _INDUSTRY - 1700-1799 _COMMERCE -LAW have been covered (with stucco, for example), or the builder may have "History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Clevelandi D. W. Ensign, 1879), 1849 and projecting keystones.Pilasters dividing the windows are chiseled with an ashlar pattern to give the effect of individual stones laid of the property.
Ohio and Erie Canal contributes to the physical and historical integrity The rear and side walls suggest a rustic stone cabin.One-third of with mortar.s the chief industry of Independence is the quarrying of stone," Crisfield Johnson wrote in i879.1 shows that he built the house in 1849, the assessed value for Ulyatt's Almost nothing is known about Abraham Ulyatt.2 Deeds show that he The Ulyatt House is an anomaly, however, for while the facade is The Ulyatt name is variously spelled,"Ulyett"and "Uylett" (1860, 1870, 1880). Cleveland, Ohio. County Tax Duplicate (1848, 1849).
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000297, 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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