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Crystal Lake Stock Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 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 42 National Register listings in Portage County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4655 Hayes Rd., Ravena, 44266
  • When was it listed? 1986-04-10
  • Category. building
  • Township. Ravenna township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 86000698 - 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.

The ground it stands on

176 words

This property stands in Ravenna Township. 1922 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1922 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Ravenna Township - 176 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 817 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 817 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crystal Lake Stock Farm between 1880 and 1975: 544 Animalia, 232 Plantae, 34 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Frankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.TisonFrankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.Tison1910Rankin; H.H. Whetzel
Specimen of Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.1910H.H. Whetzel
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Glaucomys volans, not of this specimenGlaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)1889C. P. StreatorRavenna
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus propinquus, not of this specimenCambarus propinquus Girard, 18521893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio

All 817 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Lake Stock Farm: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Karl Brugmann Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
R.A. Cruise Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sober PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Twin Lakes Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage County

Map coverage status

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

2,537 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

paneled door.The door has a projecting, shingled hood with large carved the main block.At the west end of the log section is an exterior end chimney Off of the front west end of the structure is a one story room with flat roof OMB NO. 1024-0018 Crystal Lake Stock Farm, Ravenna, vic., Portage County, Ohio wall, is a balustraded rail with carved newel post. The mantlepiece is carved, and there is a repeating carved fan motif Most of the trim has been painted, though many of the doors retain the closet. keystone. Interior: Continuation sheet Item number Page Outbuildings: Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places National Park Service turned posts.The exterior of the fireboxes and hearths have painted tiles.

the time of construction and probably built in the first decade of the porcelain basins. The fireplace in the dining room at the rear of the music room and an upstairs graining, as well as the turned wood knobs.The door surrounds have carved To the west of this room is the one story parlor.The room has paneled above the mantel.The exterior of the firebox and hearth have painted tiles.

Another upstairs bedroom has a bay window with window seat.This window opens The fireplace has a paneled mantlepiece and a firebox with a stone arch with United States Department of the Interior At the rear of the room is the main staircase with paneled wall, and an outer The central parlor is the log section of the structure moved to the site at The interior of the structure has elaborate trim and is very well preserved.

Read the complete 2,537-word case file.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Holstein cattle, at a time when many farmers throughout Ohio put their land property also dated from this period. ..communications early nineteenth century 1-1/2 story log house into the central section of the Hayes met with financial difficulties in the 1920s and was forced to sell the servants quarters was removed and a patio added.The two small sheds on the The C.L.S.F.farmhouse was built by William J.Hayes c.1884.Mr.Hayes was a The Crystal Lake Stock Farm (C.L.S.F.) is architecturally significant as a farm in 1925,though he was able to live at the house until his death sometime site and constructeda Queen Anne style house around the cabin (see - other(specify) barn and grounds were lighted from a gas well on the farm.

pounds of milk per day and 200-250 pounds of butter a week, and was one of the after.From 1925 until 1941 the land was portioned off and sold.The --art ..invention - exploration/settlement - -philosophy c. 1884 were raised on the farm), an ice house, wagon shed and tool shed. The house, Queen Anne style farmhouse with the unique feature of the incorporation of an structure.The C.L.S.F.is also significant for its historic associations elaborate farmhouses in this vicinity of Portage County built in the last crib and two non-historic agricultural sheds along with the rural setting Crystal Lake (near the present site of the farm)in the early 1880s.About 9.

The whole case file for this property - 2,537 words, 19 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 86000698, 19 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Reed, C. A., House1.3 miles1985
Griffin, Alexander B., House1.3 miles1987
Griffin, A. B.,--O. H. Griffin House1.4 miles1985
Riddle Block #51.6 miles1985
Riddle Block1.6 miles1976
Riddle Block #111.6 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000698 in Record Group 79.
Portage CountyAll 42 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.