Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1983. 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
“Akron Post Office and Federal Building is a historic former post office building in Akron, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Akron Post Office and Federal Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1929, by Office of the Supervising Architect · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.83002059- 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.
It is inaccurate to say that the Ohio Canal made Akron. The city as it stands today is the resultant of many causes. Many and different influences, and various men and measures, have co-operated toward the end now attained. The start was made long before the Ohio Canal was built. - Within the present limits of the city, settlements at two different points had been made, which antedate the canal by nearly two decades. In 1807 the first settlement had been made in Middlebury. In 1811 Miner Spicer had started "Spicertown." In the same year Paul Williams settled upon the lands immediately west of the Spicer settlement and adjoining the land of General Simon Perkins on the east. When the canal was opened in 1827 Middlebury was an important village. It had attracted many settlers from the East, principally from Connecticut, and boasted of half a dozen mills and factories, a dozen stores, three inns and about five hundred inhabitants. It certainly deserved a place on the maps of the time.
Let us search that we may find, if we can, the economic reasons for the existence of Akron. The sentence that begins this chapter contains the idea that is ordinarily advanced as the sole reason for the Akron of today. The unthinking man repeats: "The canal made Akron." The wTiter on Akron history records: "Dr. Eliakim G. Crosby made Akron."
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Akron Post Office and Federal Building between
2014 and 2014, burning about 0 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 819 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Akron Post Office and Federal Building between 1867 and
1975: 703 Animalia, 69 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. W. Cusick 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
11 workings within 5 miles of Akron Post Office and Federal Building: 9 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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
Akron, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 38 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
On Wednesday afternoon, July 10, the City of Akron experienced 3 to 4 inches of rain in an hour and a half. Flooding occurred causing the closings of roadways and expressways. Along with the roadway flooding, the City received reports of nearly 200 flooded basements. Widespread flooding was reported throughout the city and numerous homes, businesses, and vehicles were inundated by the rain.
Weakened tree fell onto home in Akron and killed occupant. Thunderstorm was likely sub-severe per radar data. The nearby Akron-Fulton International Airport ASOS recorded a peak convective wind gust of 44 mph at 9:26 AM EST. No other reports of thunderstorm-related damage or severe convective weather were received as the cluster of storms moved through the Akron area.
A severe thunderstorm moved across Summit County and caused unprecedented damage. Hail as large as softballs fell across much of the county. Extensive damage was done to homes and vehicles in Akron and surrounding areas. Nearly 51,100 insurance claims were filed for damage in the county. The south side of Akron was the hardest hit.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees and limbs in the Akron and Stow areas resulting in scattered power outages. At the peak of the storm a few thousand customers were without power.
Route 8 northbound was closed from Perkins St to E. Tallmadge Avenue. Akron police reported traffic accidents and delays due to the high water conditions. Route 8 southbound closed at Seasons Rd in Hudson/Stow to flooding. Storm total rainfall from Hudson 4.75.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1,827 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
Office building in Akron is completely faced and trimmed in smooth limestone in a Roman sash repeating the outline of the arch. columns, whose pedestals are joined by a balustrade of urn-like members, is a large window as on the front, but it is not set in an arch. A glazed lunette with a keystone A blind parapet of flat, slightly raised panels without delineating mouldings surmounts all four elevations, ostensibly resting on a prominent embellished cornice with arch supported by columns, with balustrading below and in the parapet above. separated by pilasters, reiterating in a less fully developed form the fenestration of Condition pavilion. ruins fair unexposed The flanking pavilions are treated identically, each with an arch matching those in the Check one 7.
Description metal-frame double-door. entrance with curvilinear cresting set with acroteria and a center Apparent from the building's exterior is the piano nobile treatment of its interior space. The recessed central block is an arcade of five glazed colossal round arches of deep translucent dado windows reaching to a continuing water table..Each of the full-height rank engirdles the building.In alignment with the arches of the facade the roof parapet glazed lunette outlined by low-relief mouldings.
is projected to feature a window such as that on the facade of the wing, set in a deep Extending from this projecting bay to the back corner is an arcade of seven windows further defined ata break in the ascending steps bya pair of matching piers on which - excellent A large, basically square structure of steel frame, the second former United States Post five arches contain escutcheons. Fronting an interior vestibule, the center arch has a the facade. These windows are joined with a sill course moulding, below which are rest giant metal urn-shaped lanterns.
(in one paragraph) Due to the increase in Akron's population before and during World War I, from opening taking place on Monday, February 11, 1929. floor housed other government related agencies: military recruiting offices, the This building served the Akron area as post office for forty-six years, until it the community, it has remained a highly recognizable Akron landmark. 1700-1799 1600-1699 1500-1599 1800-1899 1400-1499 economics humanitarian invention education Period industry military service commission. (postal services) law Internal Revenue department, customs offices, and training rooms for the civil James A. Wetmore, then acting supervising government architect, and has particular on all four elevations and remains today exactly as designed by its architect.
economic conditions construction did not commence until 1927,with the official Due to this building's long standing architectural and historical significance within appropriation for funds for a new building was begun in 1913,but because of 1900- Areas ofSignificance-Check and justify below 69,000 to more than 208,000,the previous post office at the southeast corner of _ archeology-prehistoric - community planning _landscape architecture - religion . agriculture James A. Wetmore The second former United States Post Office building was designed in 1927 by on Wolf Ledges in 1975. The following year, after being purchased by the Mayer Investment Company of Akron, it became the home of the Charles Mayer Studios.
The ground and main floors were used for postal operations, while the large second 1927-1929 art Builder/Architect significance as an outstanding example of Roman Neo-Classical Revival architecture Specific dates Market and High Streets had become inadequate after only twenty years. An 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83002059, 12 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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