Photograph of Frank Mason Raymond House — Photograph by Bleak23, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Raymond, Frank Mason, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 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

“The Frank Mason Raymond House is a Tudor Revival house located in the Portage Lakes area of New Franklin, Ohio.”
Wikipedia article Frank Mason Raymond House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 655 Latham Ln., Akron, 44319
When was it listed? 1995-04-20
Category. building
Township. New Franklin city
National Register reference number. 95000500 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 539 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 539 specimens collected within 10 miles of Raymond, Frank Mason, House between 1867 and 1975: 454 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. W. Cusick, A.E. Daugherty 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Asclepias verticillata L.	1889	not recorded	Akron
Osmunda cinnamomea L.	1890	Kofoid, C.A.	Akron.
Wynnea americana Thaxt.	1907	Smith, G	Akron, 450 Spicer St
Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1867	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Akron
Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1880	F. O. Payne	Akron
Geum aleppicum Jacq.	1887	Elliott	Greensburg
Geum canadense Jacq.	1887	Elliott	Greensburg
Hydrastis canadensis L.	1888	E.L. Sturtevant II
Lonicera dioica L.	1888	K. O. Foltz
Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd.	1888	K. O. Foltz
Agrimonia gryposepala Wallr.	1889	Elliott	Greensburg
Carex pensylvanica Lam.	1889	Foltz, K.O.	Akron

All 539 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Raymond, Frank Mason, House: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal, Marble, Dimension, Cement Rock. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barberton Cement Plant	Marble, Dimension, Cement Rock	Producer
Carbon Limestone Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal	Producer
Ppg Indus Brine Wells Plant	Salt	Producer
Barberton Sand Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Barberton Sand Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Barberton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Greensburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Portage Lakes Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Portage Lakes Pit Number 2 & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Twin Lakes Sand, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

60 of 75 shown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Flash Flood	Akron	1 killed, $3,800,000	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.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	1 killed, $20,000	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.
June 2007	Hail	Akron	$288,000,000	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.
July 2012	Hail	Akron	$750,000	Hail as large as golf balls was reported. Many vehicles and a few homes were damaged by the hail.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$50,000	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.
June 2009	Hail	Akron	$50,000	Half dollar size hail was observed.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Akron. Three cars were damaged by the fallen trees.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$50,000	In Akron and in Springfield Township, trees and power lines were downed, some on vehicles and houses.
August 1996	Lightning	Akron	$40,000	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Akron	$15,000	Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail for several minutes. The size of the hail increased significantly around 8:40pm EST, to half dollar size.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$15,000	Many trees were reported down throughout the county.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$15,000	Numerous trees were reported down.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. The tree landed on a house and caused some damage.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$10,000	A trained weather spotter reported windows blown out of a building on Main Street and roof damage to a shed.
July 2006	Hail	Akron	$10,000	Hail ranging between quarter and nickel size was observed.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed four large trees.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$7,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed three trees. All three trees blocked streets.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and a large limb.
June 2008	Hail	Akron	$3,000	Nickel size hail was observed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds, estimated at up to 80 miles per hour, downed trees.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	Parts of an air conditioner blew off a rood near Grant Street in Akron.
June 2013	Hail	Akron	$2,000	Reports of quarter size hail were received from trained spotters and via twitter north of downtown Akron.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	A tree and large limb was reported down.
July 2003	Hail	Akron	$2,000	Nickel size hail was observed.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$2,000	no account filed
October 2018	Hail	Akron	$1,000	Large hail damaged a window.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
July 2013	Hail	Akron	$1,000	A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	Large tree limbs downed in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood of Akron.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	Several large tree limbs downed in Akron.
March 2020	Hail	Akron	-	Social media report with picture of tennis ball-size hail about two miles north of downtown Akron.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Akron	-	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.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 65 mph.
May 2014	Hail	Akron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2014	Hail	Akron	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
July 2014	Hail	Akron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
September 2012	Hail	Akron	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
September 2012	Hail	Akron	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
July 2012	Hail	Akron	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
July 2012	Hail	Akron	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
July 2012	Hail	Akron	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2011	Hail	Akron	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
August 2011	Hail	Akron	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
August 2011	Hail	Akron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree branches.
May 2011	Hail	Akron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
April 2011	Hail	Akron	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	An automated observing station measured a 59mph wind gust.
June 2010	Hail	Akron	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
September 2010	Hail	Akron	-	Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Summit County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

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.

Newspaper	Published
Akron Daily Democrat	1892 to 1902
Summit County Labor News	1923 to 1976

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

2,953 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 C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and L D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years. Good, Albert H.; and Wagner, Edwin D.

The whole case file for this property - 2,953 words, 23 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 95000500, 23 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Zimmerly House	1.4 miles	2018
East Liberty School, District No. 11	2.7 miles	2017
Barber, O. C., Colt Barn	3.2 miles	1974
Barber, O. C., Machine Barn	3.2 miles	1974
Barber, O. C., Creamery	3.7 miles	1973
Barber, O. C., Barn No. 1	3.8 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000500 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 137 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.
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.