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
“In 1834 he removed to Detroit, and practiced there till 1838, when he returned to Cleveland, where he spent the remainder of his professional life, and made himself a high reputation both as a physician and a valuable citizen. His leading traits as a physician were the exercise of benevolence and fearlessness in the performance of his professional duties.”
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.79001807- 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
23,212 words
The chapter on Cleveland City in History of Cuyahoga County Ohio, published 1870 names Cleveland. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
At the Erie Conference M. EK. Church, in the fall of 1838, resolutions were passed dis approving any expression by the churches on the question of American slavery. This action was received with disfavor by a portion of the members of the church in Cleveland. On September 1, 1839, an organization was effected, consisting of about sixty members, who withdrew from the First Methodist Episcopal Church for that purpose. This new church stood alone until May, 1843. when it sent delegates to a convention held at Utica, New York, and there went into the organization which has ever since been known as the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America.
John W. Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1802. He resided in Chenango county, New York, from 1820 to 1825, when he removed to Cleveland, where he has ever since lived. He was admitted to the bar the next year, and for several succeeding years was engaged in the active practice of his profession.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hruby Conservatory of Music between
2018 and 2018, burning about 0 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
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 3,067 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hruby Conservatory of Music between 1849 and
1975: 2,648 Animalia, 215 Fungi, 124 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. Newhall 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
22 workings within 5 miles of Hruby Conservatory of Music: 10 unknowns, 8 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, Clay. 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
Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 11 flash flood, 3 lightning.
The reports record 3 deaths and 6 injuries. 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.
During a sailboat race on Lake Erie, two people who were not wearing life preservers, were swept overboard by high waves and drowned. A total of four boats capsized and twelve people were swept overboard.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 35 to 40 mph blew down two large tents on the west side of Cleveland. Three people inside were injured when the tents collapsed. One person was hospitalized. A peak wind gust of 36 mph was measured at nearby Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
During the afternoon hours of the 2nd, a severe thunderstorms moved over downtown Cleveland. This thunderstorm remained nearly stationary over the downtown area for around an hour, and dropped as much as four and a half inches of rain. Several rainfall reports of 3.0 to 4.5 inches were received from downtown Cleveland. This rain fell in less than 90 minutes. Local streets and highways throughout the downtown area quickly filled with water. Many roads, including Interstate 90 were impassable by flood waters as much as four feet deep. Many vehicles became stranded in the flood waters. Once the rain ended, the high water receded quickly. This was a very local event in Cuyahoga County as the southern part of the county remained mainly dry. In fact, Cleveland Hopkins Airport did not receive any rainfall from this thunderstorm.
Heavy thunderstorm rain caused widespread flooding of roads and low lying areas in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. In Newburgh Heights, Interstate 77 was flooded with three to four feet of water and an elderly couple had to be rescued from their floating car. Over five inches of rain was measured in some southern and eastern sections as storms repeatedly crossed the area for several hours.
Thunderstorms dumped up to three inches of rain on downtown Cleveland during the late afternoon hours. A television station located just east of downtown recorded 2.75 inches of rain in only 48 minutes. Major street flooding occurred and dozens of cars became stuck in water up to four feet deep. Several motorists had to be rescued from their vehicles.
Broadcast media posted a photo on social media of a large tree that fell on a house on the west side of Cleveland. The time was radar estimated. The media also reported 25,000 residents within the metropolitan Cleveland area lost power. One Giant Eagle grocery store had to throw out all of their refrigerated items after losing power. Tree limbs were also reported down on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3.5 inches fell over Cleveland during a span of 60-90 minutes. Citywide flooding resulted as storm water systems were overwhelmed. Many roads including I 480 were flooded and closed for a brief period.
The Big Creek in Cuyahoga County (drainage basin 35.3 square miles) cuts through parts of Brooklyn and Cleveland before draining into the Cuyahoga River. On the morning of the 7th radar estimated rainfall amounts between 1.5 and 1.75 inches over the Big Creek basin. Some roads adjacent to the creek were closed. Most notably, the Cleveland Metropark Zoo was closed as water flooded their parking lots and threatened the veterinary clinic and other buildings.
16 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
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From the nomination file
1,629 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
This is a two-story masonry structure in the Renaissance revival style. cornice, and parapet are all executed in terra cotta and surmounted CONDITION recital hall. RUINS FAIR spaces which display no architectural distinction. The Conservatory CHECK ONE entablatures and surrounds of terra cotta in a brick wall. The spacing small office, meeting, and dressing rooms. A hallway runs the The same second-story treatment continues on the south facade, which length of the building and opens into a series of ten instructional On the interior, the ground floor is divided into three commercial windows.The second story has three rectangular windows framed with the large recital hall, whose ceiling frieze has restrained classical floor, and the roof line is gabled instead of a flat parapet.
The second entrance leads to a grand flight of stairs to the second floor containing story of this bay has three windows framed by arches on pilasters wall of the building, is modest and unpretentious. There are some another commercial store front with its own entrance on the ground The depth of the building is three times as long as the street front the entrance is a large bay treated as a separate block.It contains - UNEXPOSED faces a side yard.There are five windows, beneath the last of which by a series of finials. of the windows is further articulated by terra cotta quoining.A frieze, (28x 90 feet),and in effect the building has two facades.The street XUNALTERED XORIGINAL SITE ornament. The recital platform, which projects beyond the rear studios. The building has a full basement.
is the major entrance to the Conservatory on the second floor.Beyond and grouped within a rectangular panel.The windows open into the AREAS OF
Statement of significance
students from throughout Cleveland, thereby making it one of the few ethnic months. Hruby, along with his father, five brothers, and two sisters formed revival structures in this former Czech neighborhood, it is the only one 1917 1700-1799 1600-1699 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION RELIGION ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS EDUCATION ART SIGNIFICANCE CONSERVATION THEATER TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT AGRICULTURE PERIOD MILITARY SCULPTURE The Conservatory was planned by Cleveland architects Steffens and Steffens LITERATURE operated until Frank Hruby's retirement in 1968--this being ample testimony building is an elegant small example of Renaissance revival architecture Frank J.
Hruby, founder of the Conservatory, was born in what is now of an important Czech-American musical family, the Conservatory attracted XARCHITECTURE structures whose use transcended neighborhood boundaries.In addition, the monumental structure. the neighborhood that physically denote Czech prominence in the arts and from the second decade of the twentieth century. Public Library (which housed a large collection of Czech literature and which societies, as well as recitals by professional musicians such as Jan Kubelik. _PREHISTORIC The Hruby Conservatory of Music occupied a prominent position in the a musical group that toured throughout the United States.
The family's skills letters, the others being the Carnegie-built Broadway Branch of the Cleveland is located next to the Conservatory) and the Bohemian National Hall, situated to the vitality of the institution. cultural milieu of Czech-American life in Cleveland for fifty years, but its which clearly conveys the cultural and commercial functions and the differen- largest Czech community in Cleveland. It is one of three major structures in The Hruby Conservatory is located in the center of what was the and Searles which had planned the Bohemian Hall in l896.The architecture of several blocks to the north. The Hall, which is listed in the National Register, Orchestra after its formation in 1918.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001807, 15 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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