Danalds, Samuel, House

ell 16 by 25 feet. It is constructed of locally-made brick, with sandstone and two doors on the south side of the ell and one on the north side. An old well stands near the house, and a two-story wooden outbuilding to have been very skillfully joined into the main wall some time in CONDITION RUINS Airport Feasibility Study for LERTA prepared by Howard, Needles, Their windows have the same lintels, sills, and sash, but they appear is soon to be removed. There is a second door on the south elevation, elevation. An exterior chimney was added at an unknown date on the The windows have six-over-six pane sash. On the facade there are the south edge of the five-acre property. two brick dormers which continue up on the plane of the front wall.

_DETERIORATED _UNALTERED lintels and sills and a stone foundation.The front door is slightly off CHECK ONE This is a one-and-a-half story house 24 by 30 feet, with a one-story very graceful bannister of walnut or fruitwood. There isa single-run stairway opposite the front entrance, with a The ell is also constructed on brick and continuous with the main block. the late 19th century. There is also a single dormer on the rear south wall, as well as a frame 'doghouse' entrance vestibule, which Tammen & Bergendoff in 1974 under an airport master planning FAIR grant from DOT/FAA. over the door is inscribed with the date 1855" and the initials S. D." _UNEXPOSED On the interior there are three rooms on each floor of the main block -GOOD center, with two windows to the right and one to the left.

The lintel DATE and two rooms in the ell.All rooms have the original plank floors.

and grandson Herman, all of whom played an important part in the Samuel Danalds was born in 1817 near White Hall, New and 1853 EDUCATION LAW 1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE ECONOMICS RELIGION ART SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCIENCE PERIOD INDUSTRY -1500-1599 AGRICULTURE LITERATURE MUSIC descendants, Danaldsassisted in the construction of the first drawbridge A five acre wooded and grassy lot is being nominated with the house and out- steam-driven sawmill in the area, which could handle very large smith; he shod horses and oxen and also made ox carts. His shop, _PHILOSOPHY _SCULPTURE the first threshing rigs in the area, with a horse-drawn steam Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.

_TRANSPORTATION engine.William's son Herman helped in the sawmill and threshing associated with events that made a significant contribution to the INVENTION -1400-1499 _PREHISTORIC Contributing further to the uniqueness of the setting is the rugged _COMMERCE _CONSERVATION _COMMUNICATIONS teristics, but its unusual brick dormers are an intriguing feature. early development of Olmsted Township. The house is a good example business, and later was employed in signal installation on the Lake came to Olmsted from Vergennes, Vermont, around 1838.

The setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and it is -1600-1699 The Samuel Danalds house possesses integrity of location, design, 1853,at that time the only brick house on Ruple Road.According over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland.His son William built the first the evidence of the tax records, the existing house was built in township and the county and to the broad patterns of our history. valley of the East Branch of the Rocky River immediately to the south.