Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. 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
“So Akron grew until August 10th, 1833, on which day the territorial extent of the city was doubled by the filing of a new plat by which all the lands lying north of the town as far as the Little Cuyahoga River, and between what is now th^ railroads on the east and Walnut and Oak Streets on the west, were allotted. As in the former plat, streets, parks, and alleys were provided for, and a little city was carefully laid out on paper.”
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1908). Machine-read text.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.84003442- 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 Gayer, Jacob M., House 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 795 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Gayer, Jacob M., House between 1867 and
1975: 679 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
9 workings within 5 miles of Gayer, Jacob M., House: 7 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
pending.
From the nomination file
2,016 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
to a saw-toothed band that occurs just below the molding containing these gabled ends. is a surviving example of the once commonplace.It is a vernacular interpretation of framed at it's corners.The front is delineated by a central projection with a three possess an exceptional integrity to its original condition. The front parlour on the east front has a slate mantle piece dramatically marblizedin in a diaper pattern and even the original screen is still found here. by the previous owner. and fret sawn spandrels and brackets. with the aid of machines. - unaltered covered with imbricated slates, the gabled roof was covered over with asphalt shingles two features that make this house highly significant. Mr.
Gayer, a carpenter, like deteriorated and oak.The pedimented entablatures of the back parlour from butternut all attest to The south gable end is separated from the wall by a plain frieze.A similar frieze, The focus of this principle facade is a three sided bay window.Rising from the first to 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Criteria B &C century working class housing in Akron, Ohio. Built by and lived in by the prolific local carpenter, Jacob Gayer, this two story, gable roof, wood sided building is typical in plan of detail and variety of materials noted in its ornate porch, variety of hardwoods used in the interior woodwork and elaborate faux marble mantle. wars, and the Great Depression that transformed its single family dwellings into rooming independently and in the employ of others, the Gayer family played a leading role in resulting in an L-shaped plan, By the 1870s their houses received an increasing level 1600-1699 1500-1599 1872 1700-1799 commerce transportation 1400-1499 economics communications engineering industry invention field.
humanitarian education military philosophy Period science exploration/settlement theater prehistoric music literature Specific dates sculpture law social/ their houses consisted of a rectangular central block with an attached kitchen wing The post Civil War industrialization of Akron transformed this area into one of Akron's 1886until 1888,and then again in 1890-93 and 1897-1899,"Gayer Brothers"carpenters are -conservation -x_architecture _1900- -agriculture -. archeology-prehistoric -community planning four laborer neighborhoods. According to the family history, the Gayer family erected west side, is an area of more prevasive poverty than here.
Like south central Akron, it family to Akron at the close of the Civil War, and while family tradition maintains that houses, this section is today largely a student community. Increasingly, it is threatened Gotleib Gayer, a German imigrant to Pennsylvania in the 1830's. Gotleib Gayer moved his a firm "Gayer Brothers" existed as early as 1868, the tax records don't seem to bare this 1876 and 1877 Jacob is listed in the employ of the carpenters, Snyder and Blood.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84003442, 21 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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