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Photograph of Eagle Cliff Hotel
Photograph by Alfredtwo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eagle Cliff Hotel

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

one of 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula County.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5254 Lake Rd., E, Geneva-on-the-Lake, 44041
  • When was it listed? 1995-10-20
  • Category. building
  • Township. Geneva township
  • National Register reference number. 95001197 - 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 873 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 873 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eagle Cliff Hotel between 1872 and 1975: 747 Animalia, 102 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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 Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio

All 873 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geneva-on-the-Lake, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed over a dozen trees in Geneva. An outdoor pavilion was damaged at a park in Geneva.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGeneva-on-the-Lake$5,000Trees were downed.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindGeneva-on-the Lake$2,000Trees were downed, some on power lines. Winds were measured at 60 mph in Ashtabula.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-Trees downed at golf course in Geneva-on-the-Lake.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-Mesonet station along Olive Drive recorded a 59 mph peak gust from a thunderstorm in Saybrook-on-the-Lake.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-A line of thunderstorms produced a 64mph wind gust as they came onshore.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindGeneva On The Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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

2,700 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

- 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 ca. 1900 Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) E B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

The whole case file for this property - 2,700 words, 25 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 95001197, 25 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
Shandy Hall5.8 miles1974
Harpersfield Covered Bridge7.2 miles1975
Austin, Eliphalet, House7.5 miles1975
Mother of Sorrows Church7.6 miles1995
Hubbard, Col. William, House7.7 miles1973
Congregational Church Of Austinburg7.7 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001197 in Record Group 79.
Ashtabula CountyAll 36 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.
  • 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.