Stephen Frazee House, 7733 Canal Road, Valley View

Stephen Frazee House, 7733 Canal Road, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, OH. Surveyed as HABS OHIO,18-VAVI,1-, with 1 photograph and a 300-word written history.

From the record

“Description : Cuyahoga Valley National Recreational Area, Canal Road (State Route Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio USGS Northf ield, Ohio Quadrangle Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates: One of the two earliest brick houses in the lower Cuyahoga Valley, the Stephen Frazee House is an example of late Federal vernacular brick construction, unusual in its locale.”
Written record, HABS OHIO,18-VAVI,1- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS OHIO,18-VAVI,1- · the record runs 300 words · one of 115 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Stephen Frazee House, 7733 Canal Road, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, OH, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

249 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS OHIO,18-VAVI,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Description : Cuyahoga Valley National Recreational Area, Canal Road (State Route Valley View, Cuyahoga County, Ohio USGS Northf ield, Ohio Quadrangle Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates: One of the two earliest brick houses in the lower Cuyahoga Valley, the Stephen Frazee House is an example of late Federal vernacular brick construction, unusual in its locale. The house faces Canal Road, which runs parallel to the Ohio-Erie Canal. The five-bayed, two-story rectangular main block has a one-story square ell appended to the east end of the south (rear) side. (No definitive information exists as to whether the main block or the ell was built first.) Stepped gables at each end of the main block are formed by twin interior chimneys with corbelled tops.
The nine-over-six-light, double-hung sash windows have sandstone sills and flat-arched brick lintels. History: According to county tax records, Stephen Frazee built this house in on land he had acquired in The Akron-Cleveland section of the Ohio-Erie Canal, which is across the road in front (north) of the house, was under construction that same year. In the property was sold to John Hynton. The Stephen Frazee House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in In the National Park Service acquired it for inclusion in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. The building is presently vacant. The National Park Service intends to use it for interpretive purposes. Source: Frazee, Stephen, House. National Register of Historic Places nomination form, Prepared by: Holly K.
Chamberlain, historian HABS May 2,

In context

Valley View, Ohio	The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio	114 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record	The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Valley View

6 records

The federal surveyors worked through Valley View building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

Structure	Survey	Report
Alexander's Grist Mill	HAER OHIO,18-VAVI,2-	5,108 words
Ohio & Erie Canal	HAER OHIO,18-VAVI,4-	49 words
Ohio & Erie Canal	HAER OHIO,18-VAVI.V,1-	48 words
Ohio & Erie Canal	HAER OHIO,18-VAVI,5-	48 words
Ohio & Erie Canal	HAER OHIO,18-VAVI,3-	45 words
Ohio & Erie Canal	HAER OHIO,18-VAVI,6-	42 words

Provenance

Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS OHIO,18-VAVI,1-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
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