Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1987. 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
“Alling House is a historic house at 323 East Avenue in Tallmadge, Ohio. Alling, a local builder and craftsman, built the house for himself in 1875 after living in an older house on the property for over a decade.”
Wikipedia article Francis D. Alling House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.87002093- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Tallmadge city, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
6ye was fixed upon the murderer, and watched him eye to eye. The Indian found himself strangely diseoncert.ed. In vain did the old man talk to my father in angry and chiding tones - -that keen, black eye was watching the would-be assassin. The time seemed long. My mother took the baby (himself) from the birch-bark cradle, and was going to call for help, but when she reached the door, she dared not leave her husband.
His experiences in the wilderness and the difficulties he had to contend with in establishing his little colony are typical, and for that reason are here set forth in full according to the excellent narrative of his .son, Dr. Leonard Bacon, as published in Howe's Historical Collections (Ohio). It may readily be believed that the labors and dangers incident to the settlement of Tallmadge were no greater than those attending the settlement of the other townships of the county.
Rev. David Bacon, the founder of Tallmadge, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, in 1771, and died in Hartford in 1817 at the early age of forty-six years, worn out by excessive labors, privations and mental sufferings, largely consequent upon his financial failure with his colony. He was the first missionary sent to the Western Indians from Connecticut. His means were pitifully inadequate, but with a stout heart, reliant upon God, he .started, August 8, 1800, from Hartford, afoot and alone through the wilderness, with no outfit but what he could carry on his back. At Buffalo Creek, now the site of the city of Buffalo, he took vessel for Detroit, which he reached September 11, thirty-four days after leaving Hart-ford, and was hospitably received by Major Hunt, commandant of the United States garrison there. After a preliminaiy survey he returned to Connecticut, and on the 25th of December was married at Lebanon to Alice Parks, then under eighteen years of age ; a week later, on the last day of the la.st year of the last century, December 31, 1800, he was ordained regularly to the specific work of a missionarj' to the heathen, the first ever sent out from Connecticut.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 721 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Alling, Francis D., House between 1867 and
1975: 610 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 47 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Alling, Francis D., House: 5 past producers, 3 producers.
3 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
Tallmadge, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 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.
Quarter to tennis ball sized hail was reported. Hundreds of homes and vehicles were damaged by the hail. There were reports of hail found inside of homes after the exterior windows had broken.
Flash flooding was reported along Route 91 near Summit County fairgrounds. At least 2 cars swept off road into ditches. Water was up to roof of cars. The city received about 10 reports of basement floodings.
Social media report and pictures of large hailstones that were approximately the size of billiard balls. Location about one mile northwest of downtown Tallmadge.
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
2,302 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
rear portion of the east facade also projects slightly. windows with molded surrounds that light the tower's stairwell. The tower is above the front porch gives visual support to the break in the eave at the roof is topped by a flat viewing platform with cast iron cresting. OMB NO. 1024-0018 date enterec The interior of the structure, like the exterior, is elaborately trimmed. The similarly treated, though smaller, mantel is in a room behind the parlor. Another building, a frame garage, sits to the rear of the west facade of the Non-Contributing Buildings: 2 Page Interior: Outbuildings: working order. (3-82) Inventory-Nomination Form National Park Service have molded surrounds.
rear of the house and was constructed in 1824.A frame necessary with a hip with molded panels.The structure also contains its original hardware in National Register of Historic Places The finest detailed room in the house is the front parlor adjacent to the Throughout the house are molded panel doors, molded baseboards and molded side hall has a winding staircase with a massive newel post with molded There are three outbuildings on the property.A large bank barn sits at the United States Department of the Interior roof sits to the rear of the east facade of the house and was moved to the site from another Ital lanate structure in Tallmadge constructed by Alling. stairwell in the hall is an original built-in safe.The walls of the hall have large molded panels above the chair rail.
(in one paragraph) In 1811 Reuben and Hannah Beach purchased 570 acresof farmland from Colonel --conservation structure was built by Beach at about the same time. _1900- --art . science 'law __ archeology-prehistoric - _ community planning Benjamin Tal lmadge, one of the original proprietors of Town 2, Range 10 of the Connecticut Western Reserve in which the village of Tallmadge was founded. foundation and constructed the nominated structure, the Alling House. A successful builder in the community, Alling constructed for his new home a the fullest advantage of the sites elevation overlooking the Tal lmadge commons, the tower commands an impressive view of the surrounding countryside residence. Constructed in 1875 by Francis D.
Alling, the original occupant, Period music residences constructed by Francis D.Alfing are extant in Tallmadge.Of the his home a distinctive two-story tower capped by a large mansard roof.Taking through windows in two sides of the mansard roof and a viewing platform on post of the winding stairs.Throughout the house this same attention enters the entrance hall through double doors to be met by the massive newel Later that same year the Beach house was moved to a lot on the south side of 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87002093, 18 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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