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
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.83004267- 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 4,538 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,538 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Notre Dame College of Ohio between 1850 and
1975: 4,096 Animalia, 229 Fungi, 132 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Hall, A. Newhall 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
1 working within 5 miles of Notre Dame College of Ohio: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
South Euclid, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
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
4,828 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
and are framed wtih stone quoins. lobby and the first floor corridors are of marble.The walls are paneled with a Gothic arches.The main altar is of Carrara marble and the side altars of Sienna marble. The eastern of the two wings described was erected The entrance foyer within the central tower is a two-story space with an oak ceil- five stories on the arm of the T,"with a center tower ll0 feet high.Each wing is - archeology-historic - science .agriculture _ sculpture X architecture - social/ .music exploration settlement X 1900- - politics/government other (specify) 1927-1928; 1961 the building was completed in the original style a third of a century after the first its new campus in South Euclid in September, 1928.
The building, consisting of the central tower, the east wing and the I-wing, housed all the classrooms, laboratories, a little theater, gymnasium, library, chapel, and dormitory. The architect, Thomas D. Mclaughlin, was born in Oil City, New York, in 1882. He studied at Lima College, Ohio, Hamilton College, New York, and the architecture Hulsken, and by 1927-1928 he was practicing alone in Lima. At exactly the same time , as the construction of Notre Dame College, the builder, John I. Gill & Sons, one of marks, was erecting the Cleveland Terminal Tower. In 1961, after considering the alternative of constructing the west wing in the modern style, the college completed the new wing according to the original plans. In consultation with Mr.
McLaughlin, then aged 79, the contractor Stanley Roediger adapted the original plans to changed building codes and technology, principally in the mechanical systems, but the exterior design, including all carved stone trim, wing achieved its
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Notre Dame College was founded in 1922 by the Sisters of Notre Dame.Located the Carnegie Library in Liam.In 1909 McLaughlin formed the firm of McLaughlin and The South Euclid Branch Library was the Architect's Plans, Clara Fritzsche Library, Notre Dame College of Ohio. History of Allen County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (Chicago, 1906).
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83004267, 30 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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