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Photograph of Rose Hill and Community House
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rose Hill and Community House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 1994 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Cahoon and Lake Rds., Bay Village, 44140
  • When was it listed? 1994-05-13
  • Category. building
  • City. Bay Village city
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94000413 - 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

1902 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rose Hill and Community House, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Rose Hill and Community House, surveyed 1902

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 985 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 985 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rose Hill and Community House between 1849 and 1975: 899 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. G. Newhall, A. Hall, A. Hull 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 Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
Specimen of Irpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) MurrillIrpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) Murrill1895F. D. KelseyBerea.
Specimen of Lindera benzoin (L.) BlumeLindera benzoin (L.) Blume1895L.D. StairBerea
A photograph of the species Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1849Jared P. KirtlandRockport
A photograph of the species Eremophila alpestris, not of this specimenEremophila alpestris praticola (Henshaw, 1884)1877A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1879Willard G. Van NameEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1879A. HullEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Setophaga tigrina, not of this specimenSetophaga tigrina (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Astur Lacepède, not of this specimenAstur Lacepède, 17991880A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121880A. HallEast Rockport
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1880A. HallEast Rockport
Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Saunders, F.A.LOCNM: Rondeau

All 985 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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.

From the nomination file

4,479 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.

Statement of significance

[x locally Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Architect/Builder Cahoon, Joseph (original house) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Martha Cahoon and was granddaughter of the township's first settler. She bequeathed intact the 128 acre family farmstead, bordering on Lake Erie and specified that Rose Hill "shall be forever maintained and used as a Library and Museum." At the time of its donation, this gift to the Village of Bay was the largest - preservation of an historic building, and served as a model for later philanthropy in the Cleveland area.

conversion of the former Cahoon barn into Community House in 1936, coupled with extensive federally social activities of Bay Village. The Development of a Metropolitan Park System When Ida Cahoon began to plan for the disposition of her family farmstead around the turn of the century, leader in the development of telegraph lines, donated 75 acres of land around Doan Brook to the city of death in 1892 for use as a park. This was once one of the finest parks in the nation, with beautifully landscaped grounds, but was largely destroyed in 1952 when Lakeland Freeway bisected the grounds Under Cleveland Mayor Tom L.

Johnson, who served from 1902-1909, a comprehensive plan for park X See continuation sheet 1917-1943 Social History Significant Person Applicable National Register Criteria Significant Dates Rose Hill and Community House are significant under Criterion A because of their association with the was established to manage the development of park lands.In 1897 John D. and Laura Spelman Cleveland businessman William J.

Read the complete 4,479-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 4,479 words, 24 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 94000413, 24 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
John Huntington Pumping Tower0.4 miles1979
Aaron Aldrich House1.8 miles1978
Bay View Hospital2.6 miles1974
Clague House2.7 miles1976
Lilly House3.0 miles2006
Westlake Hotel4.9 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000413 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 426 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.