Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,021 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland between 1850 and 1975: 3,595 Animalia, 219 Fungi, 127 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895 | 1894 | F. Webster | Euclid |
 | Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc. | 1894 | Seymour, Arthur Bliss | Cleveland, O. [Ohio] |
 | Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1897 | Winkler, H.J. | Woods, Cleveland. |
| Boraginaceae | 1850 | not recorded | Cleveland. | |
 | Carex canescens L. | 1850 | Illegible collector name | Cleveland. |
 | Catillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr. | 1854 | G. Dixon | Cleveland, Bousdale Hill |
 | Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1854 | Robert Kennicott | Cleveland |
 | Abrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 1869 | 1860 | Mudd Wm. | Cleveland |
 | Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) | 1860 | not recorded | Cleveland |
 | Villosa iris (I.Lea, 1829) | 1863 | H. Elliott | |
 | Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898 | 1871 | Collector(s): unknown | Cleveland |
 | Timmia megapolitana Hedw. | 1871 | E. N. Claassen |
All 4,021 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amax Rolling Mill/ Cleveland, Ohio | Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum | Unknown | ||
| General Electric/ Euclid, Ohio | Tungsten | Unknown |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 waterspout, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | East Cleveland | $35,000 | Road eroded by flood waters on Superior Ave and South Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | $25,000 | Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of these trees fell through a house. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | $25,000 | Many trees down in Cleveland Heights with some falling on homes and cars. The AWOS at Cuyahoga County Airport reported a wind gust to 58 mph. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | $10,000 | Several trees were reported down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | $3,000 | Local law enforcement reported trees down in Cleveland Heights. Streets impacted include Euclid Avenue, Yellowstone Road, and Hampshire Road. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds snapped a pine tree along Wyatt Road near Forest Hill Park. A couple trees nearby were also downed. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Tree downed in South Euclid. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Three trees downed in Cleveland Heights. Another tree was downed near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Richmond Road. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Numerous trees downed in and near Cleveland Heights. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of the trees broke through the roof of a garage. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Two trees downed along Taylor Road, between East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Large tree snapped about one-mile west of Lyndhurst. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | A tree was blown down on Fairmount Blvd. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | There were several trees snapped and uprooted. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Cleveland | - | Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across the northern portion of the county. |
| August 1997 | Waterspout | East Cleveland | - | A waterspout was reported on Lake Erie near Burke Lakefront Airport. It dissipated without coming ashore and no damage was reported. |
2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| East Cleveland Leader | 1942 to 1970 |
| The East Clevelander | 1933 to 19?? |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
free-standing column with foliated capital supports each corner. light and insignia (Alpha and Omega and IHS) in the other two.Wide borders of opalescent structionof the church.The altar has three panels with a quatrefoil in the center;a the side walls and a polygonal apse.A low front vestibule was added in 1950,and3)a Areas of Significance-Check and justify below X architecture X art _ music X_ 1800-1899 - philosophy other (specify) 1860; 1895 Statement of
(in one paragraph) the late nineteenth century artist John LaFarge. The parish of St. Paul's, organized in 1843, is the second oldest Episcopal congregation of Coburn, Barnum, and Benes in 1895-96, is an excellent example of the adaptation of of Cleveland Square, and incorporated the following month; in 1845, parishioners began repairs were made, including the installation of memorial stained glass windows honoring the 1860 building, on a site then occupied by the rectory, built in 1865. The parish The foundation was laid on 2 July 1896 and the building consecrated 18 April 1897.
glass in about 1876, is a particularly striking example of color and design, using opal- escent glass borders and art nouveau plant forms, including deep rose-colored pomegranates, that would prove the attribution no longer exist, but later correspondence with LeFarge's grandson and the independent analysis of art historians, including Elizabeth Breckenridge, Reserve Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, strongly support the tradi- choir, rail, and altar, all of oak.
The dark hammerbeam roof also creates a feeling of 1500-1599 commerce 1600-1699 1700-1799 conservation communications 1400-1499 education economics industry invention archeology-historic humanitarian engineering transportation military theater exploration/settlement Period agriculture science literature Specific dates social/ to draw upon English Gothic parish churches for the design was thus singularly appropriate. is a particularly striking example of art nouveau stained glass and is almost certainly Criterion C 1900- icate and beautiful and generally well-preserved. In 1895,the nationally recognized Professor of Art History at the Cleveland Institute of Art and President of the Western 8.
The whole case file for this property - 1,653 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 84000130, 16 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First Church of Christ in Euclid | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Nela Park | 0.6 miles | 1975 |
 | Forest Hill Historic District | 1.0 miles | 1986 |
 | Forest Hill Park | 1.3 miles | 1998 |
 | Forest Hill Realty Sales Office | 1.6 miles | 2007 |
| Inglewood Historic District | 1.7 miles | 2009 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84000130 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Cuyahoga County | All 426 listed properties in this county. |
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