National Register reference number.82001873- 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.
Then and now
1903 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031994
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 6 fires within 5 miles of Russ and Holland Snow Houses
between 1993 and 2012, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Debris and open burning
2
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 995 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Russ and Holland Snow Houses between 1876 and 1974: 977 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 incertae sedis.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Hall, 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 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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 rear of the house. has double-hung windows, 6/6 lights, with sandstone sills and lintels. construction was added in place of the wooden kitchen wing, and contains a living room, dining room, kitchen, and bath on the first Outbuildings on the property include a large gable-roof bank barn, a The log cabin, which has a sills but no lintels. The front porch The house at this date with their original mantelpieces. Federal-Greek Revival style. The house was remodeled in 1928.A sun porch and terrace of brick road, the Holland Snow House on the south side.The houses stand reputedly housed a summer kitchen and woodshed.
The front entrance features sidelights and a of black walnut; and two fireplaces, in the living and dining rooms, The original main block of the house The two-story house is five bays wide by construction were added at the rear of the house. transom capped with a heavy horizontal lintel in the Greek Revival mode. built in the late nineteenth century.
ashlar stone foundation,and there is a basement.The gable roof is one-story wood frame wing on the right side of the house; this Russ and Holland Snow Houses, Brecksville, Ohio Item number of the house, from which a door on the left side of the main block basement and the ground around it was graded, making it into a bank Page received date entered Inventory-Nomination Form It has a one-and-one-half-story main block with gable end Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service the house, there is a recessed porch with flush siding in the ell.
(in one paragraph) together with their several outbuildings, illustrate Brecksville's Russ A. Snow (1789-1875) was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, although Holland, and Orpha P. ville Township and who urged Russ to pay him a visit. While staying in Brecksville, Russ Snow purchased a piece of land "on speculation" for his family, who arrived on October 19, 1835, after a four-week County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland, Ohio (Chicago: The Lewis Brecksville Public Library, Brecksville, Ohio. 1700-1799 1400-1499 commerce History transportation theater humanitarian Period National Register. science military literature 1900- law 8. Significance of the Snow family have been active in civic affairs, in Brecksville's other (specify) political life, and in social and humanitarian causes.
Both houses, Specific dates 1845;1864 been born while they were in New Hampshire, added two sons and another - communications Pub1ishing Company,1894),p.419. - archeology-prehistoric - community planning X agriculture X architecture .art association with one of Brecksville's pioneer families. Members 1817 until 1821. He moved his family to Atkinson, Maine, the following The Snows, to whom two daughters (Charlotte and Jane) had Builder/Architect Unknown 1600-1699 1500-1599 The Russ and Holland Snow Houses are significant for their long History of the Family of Beniamin Snow The Russ Snow House is important Ruth Hibbard in 1815,then served in the New Hampshire militia from heritage as a farming community. the reminiscences of one family member. He sent 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82001873, 22 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.
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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