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Decorative drawing: a brick factory with a tall chimney and rows of windows. Not a photograph of this place.

Cheese-vat Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 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 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 16 Eagle St., Madison, 44057
  • When was it listed? 1980-10-20
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Madison MRA
  • Township. Madison township
  • National Register reference number. 80003110 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 341 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 341 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cheese-vat Factory between 1885 and 1975: 250 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 10 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, A.W. Cusick; R.H.Guckert, Adams J. M. R. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Werner, Wm. C.Thompson
Specimen of Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 17681894W. A. KellermanLane Avenue
Specimen of Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & SwinglePuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1885W. C. WernerThompson
A photograph of the species Peronospora corydalis, not of this specimenPeronospora corydalis de Bary1885Collector unspecifiedMadison
A photograph of the species Geranium molle, not of this specimenGeranium molle L.1886WernerLake Co., Painesville
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893not recordedGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedGrand River, Painsville, Ohio

All 341 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 waterspout, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1999Thunderstorm WindMadison$200,000Several dozens trees downed. Seven homes suffered minor roof and structural damage from fallen trees. An additional home suffered major structural damage when a twelve ton tree fell on the roof of an upstairs bedroom. The roof over the bedroom was destroyed and one of the exterior walls was split by the tree. The split in the wall allowed heavy thunderstorms rains to spill into the ground level of the house causing significant water damage. The remaining walls of the home were bowed by the weight of the tree. Two barns and seven cars were also damaged by fallen trees.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMadison$100,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees in the area. Numerous homes in the area were damaged as a result of the downed trees.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMadison$18,000County dispatch reported several power lines brought down by thunderstorm winds in the town of Madison.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMadison$15,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted tree. The tree fell onto a house.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMadison$12,000County Dispatch reported numerous trees and power lines down in Madison.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMadison$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 2002HailMadison$10,000Quarter size hail was observed five miles south of Madison. The hail damaged the grape crop at a vineyard.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindMadison$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and several large tree limbs.
May 2014HailMadison$5,000Broadcast media and county dispatch relayed reports of quarter size hail in Madison.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMadison$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Madison and in Leroy Township.
May 2002HailMadison$5,000Dime size hail was reported.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMadison$4,000A few trees were reported down in Madison Township.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMadison$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large tree limbs.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMadison$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMadison$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMadison$1,000no account filed
June 2024Flash FloodMadison-Reports of widespread road flooding in North Madison and Madison in eastern Lake County, with some roads closed due to flowing water. Radar estimated 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rainfall in a 60-75 minute period.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMadison-Several large tree branches downed in Madison.
March 2023HailMadison-Hail up to penny-size one-mile south of Madison.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMadison-Several trees were blown down on Route 84 near Route 528 in Madison.
May 2014HailMadison-Penny to nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailMadison-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail.
April 2011HailMadison-Penny size hail was observed.
August 2011HailMadison-Penny sized hail was observed.
June 2011HailMadison-Penny to quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2006HailMadison-Penny size hail was observed.
July 2000WaterspoutMadison-Several waterspouts were observed on Lake Erie just off shore from Madison.
July 2000HailMadison-no account filed
May 1998HailMadison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

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

504 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 504 words, 5 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80003110, 5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gilbert, Jane, Houseunder 500 feet1980
Hendry, Francis, Houseunder 500 feet1980
Ingersoll, Cyrus J., House0.1 miles1980
Metcalf, Rev. Harlan, House0.1 miles1980
Ware, Edwin L., House0.2 miles1980
Paige, David R., House0.2 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003110 in Record Group 79.
Lake CountyAll 75 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.