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
“These pedigrees are marked (Stowe MS. 621) in the reference.”
A Visitation of the County of Kent (1906). Machine-read text.
one of 42 National Register listings in Portage County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003633- 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
3,758 words
The chapter on Kent City in A Visitation of the County of Kent, published 1906 names Kent. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Stowe MS. 621 in the British Museum, formerly the property of John Holland, is described in the catalogue : « Original Pedigrees of Kentish Families to 1663 (in which year Bysshe made a Visitation of the County), with the signatures of members of the several families, f. 2," and on the title page is written " A peice of the Visitation of Kent." This manuscript contains sixteen pedigrees in the same handwriting as the Heralds' College copy, and all signed by the heads of the families or their representatives, whereas the pedigrees of the same families lare not signed in the College copy, so it would seem that some of the original pages had been mislaid and a copy substituted for them in the official copy in the College. These pedigrees are marked (Stowe MS. 621) in the reference.
These complaints were delivered to Sir Edward Bysshe by his own request by Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms.* He appaiently disregarded them, for at fo. 100 we find that an order was made by James, Earl of Suffolk, deputy to the Earl Marshal, prohibiting Sir Edward Bysshe to make airy new Visitations until he had rectified the errors and defects of the books of his Visitation of Kent (among others). There is in Add. MS. 22,883 a summary of the alleged errors in this Visitation, as follows : - have been done." It is curious to note that these complaints were mostly made between 1670 and 1674, whereas the Visitation is said to have been finished in 1668, but there is no further reference to them in the correspondence. Sir Edward Bysshe died in 1679.f
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 772 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hopkins, Benjamin F., Stone Building between 1883 and
1975: 503 Animalia, 229 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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
18 workings within 5 miles of Hopkins, Benjamin F., Stone Building: 9 producers, 7 past producers, 2 plants.
11 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Kent, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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.
A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 85 to 95 mph hit the west side of Kent. The area affected by the downburst was one quarter wide mile and approximately a mile in length. Several hundred trees and 40 power poles were downed. A total of 25 homes were damaged including four that were declared unhabitable. In addition, a camper and over a dozen automobiles were crushed by fallen trees. Widespread power outages occurred and a state of emergency was put in effect because of the widespread and severe damage.
Widespread flash flooding in Kent and Ravenna. Several roads flooded and impassable with several feet of standing water, including OH-59 between downtown Ravenna and OH-44. Dispatch received 30 calls to assist motorists stranded in flood waters. Widespread basement flooding reported. Radar estimates and gauge measurements indicate 3 to 3.25 inches of rainfall in a two hour period.
Thunderstorm winds downed between 15 and 20 trees in Kent and surrounding Franklin Township. Two houses in Kent were damaged by fallen trees. Both houses sustained roof damage with one also having a wall knocked down.
Members of the public and social media indicated tree damage in Kent. Two trees were downed on Riverbend Trail and three trees were downed in Artemis Drive Park.
Trained spotter's personal weather station recorded a peak convective gust of 80 mph about 1.5-miles southwest of Kent. Numerous large trees were snapped in the area.
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From the nomination file
4,869 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
On the east side there isa wooden shed roof supported on four posts and aflat deck running the length of the building.The rafters and joists suggest that a gable ridge was planned, but the flat roof does not seem to be an original, but the glass has been replaced. The arrangement of the openings unexposed This is a one-and-a-half story building of sandstone ashlar construction. The building stands on a high basement used for storage which is accessible Areas of Significance-Check and justify below _ science - sculpture exploration/settlement industry _ invention _other (specify) hewn stone construction, the isolated location, and several of the physical that it was probably not planned as a dwelling, but its actual function is not known. It stands on land owned by Benjamin F.
Hopkins, who was They erected a sawmill, a glass factory, a tannery, a woolen factory, 1500-1599 1700-1799 1600-1699 communications commerce education archeology-historic archeology-prehistoric engineering transportation conservation architecture economics theater literature philosophy 1400-1499 Period politics/government prehistoric music military X1800-1899 community planning law min Hopkins stone building is a rare survival in an open setting of the humanitarian building is presumed to have been built at this location in order to be 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) free-standing rock in the river.At the end of the nineteenth century the Railway in 1864,and even more so by the phenomenal expansion of the Ohio Kent (originally Franklin Mills) developed very early into an industrial features described are unusual in the City of Kent.Because Kent was 1900- radically transformed by the completion of the Atlantic &Great Western an ashery, and several private dwellings before the firm dissolved in 1831. suggest that it was probably erected in the mid-1840s.The property was Standing Rock afer the rugged sentinel of the Cuyahoga River,"a large social/ .agriculture - religion Benjamin F. Hopkins a builder in the firm of Woodard, Hopkins and Ladd beginning in 1822.
Specific dates 1822-1831; 1858 State Normal College (Kent State University) in the twentieth century, Benja- art Builder/Architect landscape architecture HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Benjamin F. Hopkins Stone Building Kent, Portage County, Ohio Likewise, the only other significant structure remaining from the early - the Kent Industrial District (NR).
The mill which stood on the river bank glass works, John Brown's tannery, a grist mill, a saw mill, and the extensive Kent railway car and machine shops, including a roundhouse, of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, all of which were standing in Finally, it is significant that the building stands in an open setting, even RECEIVED FHR-8-300A teenth century building and/or industrial practice. The preferred building materials of the early nineteenth century in the (11/78) that of the mid-nineteenth century and conveys the feeling and association reminder of the early manufacturing history of Kent. of the period of significance.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003633, 32 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.
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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