Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1981. 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 1981 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.81000444- 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
1 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oliver, John G., House between
2003 and 2003, burning about 400 acres in total. None 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
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 1,499 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Oliver, John G., House between 1864 and
1975: 1,266 Animalia, 150 Plantae, 73 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Oliver, John G., House: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mentor, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 waterspout.
The reports record 2 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.
Penny to hen egg sized hail was observed for several minutes in Mentor. Much of the hail was golf ball sized or larger. This resulted in many vehicles being damaged.
A weak tornado moved inland from Lake Erie and was on the ground in Mentor for a little less than one mile. Many trees were knocked down with a few homes sustaining minor damage.
A portion of Interstate 90, a main throughway, was closed between State Route 306 and State Route 615 due to flooding. Several disabled semi trucks that stalled in high water.
Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a house near the intersection of Center Street and Mentor Avenue in Mentor. Some tree limbs were also down in the area.
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
2,360 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
south is the kitchen and service area. quarters and service area.This addition was made with great care and is dormers in the structure; of these, two on the east side extend to form bays. the south wings (both the original and the addition),the service areas and in shape.It is 108' long and 37'at its greatest width.The foundation is of red brick laid in English bond.In the south wing (approx.21'by 24') the One of the latter is extended ll'4"and is 12'wide.There are four brick stucco, broken with non-structural exposed timbers. -good belies the height and mass of the structure. There are thirteen gabled wall garage was later added (1948), also to the south side. On the main floor, in date The main block is of . archeology-historic . sculpture .
theater X 1900- -other (specify) industrialist. "Wildwood, " as the family called it, remains an excellent example of the elaborate country residences of prominent Cleveland gentlemen, estates that were common in the early twentieth century in Mentor, Kirtland Hills, Kirt- land, and Waite Hill in Lake County.It was designed by the important Cleveland there drafted the plans for the Lick Telescope, then the largest in the world. In 1891, he was co-founder of Bardons & Oliver, a machine tool firm. Visits to Abram Garfield (1872-1958), a son of President James A. Garfield, studied public housing projects.
(in one paragraph) Chapter of the A.I.A.In 1925 he was appointed to the Fine Arts Commission of 1905,Garfield became the head of his own firm until his retirement in 1950. This residence was the home of John G.Oliver (186l-l939),a prominent Cleveland Renaissance.He commissioned a seasonal residence to be built in a style evoca- the house's completion in 1908,the Olivers lived in it from early spring until _economics - art _ archeology-prehistoric - community planning X architecture the property to the City of Mentor for use as a park in 1980. Cleveland Group Plan (N.R.).
The Oliver house is one of the most representative 1600-1699 science the United States.In the 1930s his firm was active in planning some of the first England to meet with sales agents for the firm whetted his appreciation of and ter Polytehnic Institute.He was employed by Warner & while 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 81000444, 17 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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