Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 27 National Register listings in Medina County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001487- 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.
The ground it stands on
550 words
This property stands in York Township. Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 334 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Cook, Zimri, House between 1884 and
1975: 295 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] 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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
1,988 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.
Description of the property
frieze board, narrow corner boards, and a fairly elaborate entrance CONDITION DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED UNALTERED FAIR RUINS treatment consisting of a slightly gabled architrave with a drop X_EXCELLENT attached wing to the west.The walls are covered with horizontal These features are from the Italiana Villa style.The west wing a main two-story rectangular block with a one-and-a-half story molding, and a doorway and sidelights with shallow blind arches. This is a moderate size wooden frame house with features of This entrance composition is nearly identical with that on a more also appears on the other house.
has a recessed porch at the first story next to the house.This CHECK ONE typical five-bay house a mile to the south on the Medina Road, clapboard siding.The main block has three bays on the south probably by the same builder. All of these elements are those both the Greek Revival and the Italian Villa styles.It consists of - UNEXPOSED of the Greek Revival style. The roof of the main block is hipped, facade and four on the east elevation. There is a wide unornamented -GOOD AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Zimri Cook was born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1813. is a Republican in politics, and an intelligent gentleman. " The 1400-1499 1600-1699 1700-1799 INVENTION SCIENCE CONSERVATION 1800-1899 LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ENGINEERING AGRICULTURE PHILOSOPHY PREHISTORIC ART The LITERATURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE RELIGION INDUSTRY existence of a substantial house.
ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT built by an early resident of York Township whose chief distinction _TRANSPORTATION _ECONOMICS _SCULPTURE ical facts, plus the analogy with the house on the Medina Road, _COMMUNICATIONS 1869.Zimri married Elizabeth Brown in 1843 and they had six Zedelia and Zejames.The father died in 1849 and Mrs.Cook in _COMMERCE The children were: Zuriel, Zerena, Zerema, Zimri, Zephrona, and he remarried in 1865. The county history stated that Mr. Cook This is an unusually fine example in its locality of a house with In l832 his parents Zurial and Polly Cook settled in York Township. may be the fact that he was one of fourteen children, all of whose suggest a date sometime around 1845-1850.
In the 1850 United States features of both the Greek Revival and Italian Villa styles.It was - EDUCATION exact date of the house is not known, but the style and the biograph- _1900- Census his real estate was valued at $5,0o0,which implies the - MILITARY children (none beginning with "z").Cook's first wife died in 186l, names began with "z" Zerusha, Zetna, Zegüstus, Zelora, Zethaniel, Zeruth, Zelotus,
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001487, 14 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.
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.
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