National Register reference number.92000174- 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.
Then and now
1903 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031994
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 923 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 923 specimens
collected within 10 miles of John M. Annis House between 1876 and 1975: 825 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 8 Protozoa.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall 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
North Royalton, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 80 mph caused considerable damage along York Road between Albion Road and State Route 82 . The damage path from the downburst was oriented from west to east and was a half mile wide and approximately one mile long. Several hundred trees were downed and many homes damaged. A few cars were also damaged by fallen trees. A man was hit by a falling tree. He was taken to a local hospital and treated for a large cut on his forehead.
Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to widespread flooding across Cuyahoga County. Rainfall totals across the county averaged 2 inches. Up to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground at the onset of the rain. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Dozens of homes in the county sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding. Many roads had to be closed because of the flooding. Several schools in North Royalton received considerable damage.
Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down near the intersection of Bennett Road and York Road blocking the road. Other limbs were reported down across North Royalton and some fencing was blown down at an athletic field on Wallings Road.
Thunderstorm winds snapped the upper half of a 60ft-tall tree. Large sections of a black willow tree were snapped off as a result of the thunderstorm winds. Several other trees in the area were downed during this event.
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.
Statement of significance
Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance , 1914 Significant Person style of architecture (1820-1860). In 1914, John B. Annis, introduced the Palladian window, popular in frame structures in the early 20th century, and the one-story columned porch, to reflect the Colonial Revival updating. North Royalton. It is an example of the upright-and-double-wing subtype, with two lower, windows with simple pediment surrounds, and the square-columned front porch, all establish returns. Although some of the Interior wood trim was replaced in 1914 the basic floor plan, original:floors, and four-panel: doors have been retained and contribute to the architecture in North Royalton. integrity, Including inappropriate additions and the introduction of new siding.
Two brick Greek Revival houses in North Royalton are noteworthy, but are not of the same plan Architecture Unknown Royalton.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 92000174, 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.
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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