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.83004278- 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 2,826 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,826 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Westlake Hotel between 1849 and
1975: 2,386 Animalia, 225 Fungi, 132 Plantae, 77 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. 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 National Weather Service names
Rocky River, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
Strong to severe thunderstorms that moved through the area during the mid afternoon hours of the 31st dropped between two and four inches of rain across the county from Rocky River east to Mooreland Hills and Chagrin Falls. The primary locations that received flash flooding were the Rocky River and Lakewood areas. Flash flooding was also reported in the eastern part of the county near Chagrin Falls. The flash flooding caused a portion of I-90 in Rocky River to become flooded with several feet of water making a section of the highway impassable for nearly 3 hours. There were also numerous streets in Rocky River that became flooded with several feet of water on them. Numerous homes were also flooded. In Chagrin Falls, water several feet deep flowed down Main Street during the worst of the flooding. Some roads in the area had the pavement buckled. Water was reported to have flowed into several homes and businesses in the Chagrin Falls and Mooreland Hills area.
A tree was uprooted and nearly a dozen large limbs were reported down across the area from Rocky River to Fairview Park area. Power lines were also down as many locations were without power.
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
4,057 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
compass rose, anchor, and sailboat.It is beng restored and returned to its position of now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The old Silverthorne Inn, Alterations in the'30s included installation of a corrugated glass balcony railing with The rehabiliatation work on the Westlake Hotel was completed in the spring of 1983.As and parapets were destroyed by fire in 1957.These features are now in the process of hosting the site since 1815,was torn down in 1917 to make way for the Miramar, renamed prominence: the Westlake Hotel prior to construction in l92l. -fair - unaltered X altered 168 apartments of one to three rooms.
The original plan had 400 rooms, many of which The vestibule at the main entrance is a squared structure with high windows, a domed plaster ceiling, and octagonal floor plan. by. a hipped, red tile roof. Alterations in the mid '30s removed the corner engaged had kitchenettes. The building faces Lake Road on the upper edge of the Rocky River unexposed deteriorated The exterior walls of rough stucco are capped with beamed soffit overhangs.T The main portion of the building aveneered cap rail and featured a sculptured plaster wall relief.This wall relief, along the river valley elevation it is nine stories.T The main facade is articulated by a recessed 2l bay Areas of Significance-Check and justify below _ prehistoric _ archeology-historic - science - sculpture .
military - - art _music . commerce _ theater X 1900 . communications - politics/government - transportation _ invention _ other (specify) The Westlake Hotel, a prominent hotel during the 1920s - 1930s located along Lake Erie, J.
(in one paragraph) _1800-1899 in the Cleveland area. hotel in the Spainish Colonial Revival style in Northern Ohio. - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - agriculture X architecture - - social/ Builder/Architect J. Harold MacDowe11 to further promote the talents of a fledgling band leader who appeared regularly in From its position of prominence in the 30s - 40s, the hotel lost ground in the 50s and 1600-1699 1500-1599 Period of coastal resorts in Southern California and Southeastern Florida.Characteristics of came headquarters for the Cleveland National Air Races as that event gained the favor of serendipitous during the boom in aviation of the late 1920s and 1930s.The Westlake be- 9.-
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 83004278, 27 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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