Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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 113 National Register listings in Lorain County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lorain County.
National Register reference number.82003608- 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 695 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 695 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bradford, Henry, Farm between 1852 and
1975: 587 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans, A.M. Evans 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
Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
A tornado touched down briefly near the intersection of Gore Orphange and Stewart Roads (just south of Rochester) then moved east along Steward Road. Trees and powers lines were blown down.
Trained spotters and social media reports provided evidence of sporadic wind damage in southern Lorain County. Two trees were downed on Bursley Road near Rochester. Trees were also downed on Ohio State Route 18 near Wellington. A tree also fell onto a house in Lagrange Township.
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
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From the nomination file
1,568 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 Henry Bradford farm includes a large frame farmhouse and four outbuildings, all in virtually unaltered condition. The two-story house combines elements of the Italianate, Second Empire faced with shutters. The eaves cornice has large brackets with pendant been divided to provide a bathroom and a small kitchen. Condition 7. Description ruins unexposed fair and gather the eggs. The fourth building was used as a small garage originally used for wood storage and washing. the outbuildings have vertical wooden siding. are no fireplaces, as stoves provided the heating source. The original but not painted. There is wood wainscoting in the dining room. There The outbuildings are unaltered also.The barn is constructed with pens. The silo was constructed in 1910.
The roof of the silo is tile different bins for storing various grains.There is a small chicken Check one with arched spooled brackets.To the rear is a one-story utility room and Queen Anne styles.The foundation consists of rock-faced sandstone, fishscale shingles..In the corners between bays there are three porches hardware and lighting fixtures are intact.The rear utility room has have three outside walls. The center windows of each bay are false and in the early 1900s.The last two buildings have metal roofs.
(in one paragraph) Disney." The house remained in the Bradford family until 1980. Bradford hired John Burrows,a local builder,to erect the house ata of Border Collies who has been featured on the "Wonderful World of - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - philosophy father, in 1872. At that time there were only a log cabin and some of the finest animals on his farm; but also, of having been the means cost of about $3,000. It was described as "one of the handsomest farm exploration/settlement in elegance and comfort surpassing anything of the kind in his part of contemporary, and the very large bays with so much outside exposure Lansing's son Carl Bradford is the nationally known sheep dog trainer 1894), pp. 1002-1003.
Quadrangle name _ UMT References Part of Lot 16, Rochester Township, _ state Larry and Cheryl Hines, owners, and Eric Johannesen, Preservationist street & number city or town _ national 665),I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated State Historic Preservation Officer signature GPO 938 835 216-647-2133 44090 216-647-2642 Wellington date county organization Easting Northing Brighton code Zone name/title telephone Ohio Attest: 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Chief of Registration 1:24,000 10.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003608, 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.
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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