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Photograph of Louis Penfield House
Photograph by Marykeiran, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Louis A. Penfield House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Penfield, Louis A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2203 River Rd., Willoughby Hills
  • When was it listed? February 1997
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Moderne architecture
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 96001622 - 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

1905 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Louis A. Penfield House, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Louis A. Penfield House, surveyed 1905

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Louis A. Penfield House: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Abrasive. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gordon-Warren/ Wickliffe, OhioAbrasiveProducer
Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, OhioSilicaProducer
Quartz Scientific Inc/ Eastlake, OhSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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
Boyce, Julia F. Country Estate1.0 miles2023
Downtown Willoughy Historic District1.4 miles1995
Smart Building1.4 miles1983
Kirtland Temple2.4 miles1969
Newel K. Whitney Store2.5 miles1984
Edward W. and Louise C. Moore Estate3.0 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001622 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 81 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.
  • 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.