{"nrhp_refnum":"74001442","name":"Mather, Flora Stone, College District","other_names":["College for Women","Western Reserve University"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bellflower Rd. at Ford Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50897196000005,"lon":-81.60749057499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-02-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3.6-acre historic district on Bellflower Road at Ford Drive in Cleveland, Ohio, made up of five buildings of the former College for Women of Western Reserve University, built between 1891 and 1912.","why_significant":"The five buildings and their green form a historic and architectural unity that is unique on the Case Western Reserve campus, which is otherwise marked by continuous expansion and crowded space. Four of the buildings are architecturally distinguished, and Guilford Hall completes the quadrangle. The group also represents the early College for Women, the fifth separate women's college in the United States.","narrative":"This district on Bellflower Road at Ford Drive in Cleveland contains five buildings put up between 1891 and 1912 for the College for Women of Western Reserve University. Clark Hall, a Queen Anne variant, was designed by Richard M. Hunt and dedicated in 1892 along with Guilford Cottage, by Coburn and Barnum. Charles F. Schweinfurth designed Harkness Memorial Chapel and Haydn Hall in 1901-1902, and later the Flora Stone Mather Memorial of 1910-1912, which received an addition in 1930-1931 by Charles Hopkinson. The buildings face a shared green and have Gothic or late medieval English elements, giving them a visual unity rare on a campus shaped by continuous expansion. The College for Women opened in 1888 after a four-year controversy over coeducation and was the fifth separate women's college in the United States. In 1931 it was renamed for Flora Stone Mather, its chief benefactor. The buildings remain in educational use.","period_of_significance":"1891-1912","architect_builder":"Richard M. Hunt (Clark Hall); Coburn and Barnum (Guilford Cottage); Charles F. Schweinfurth (Harkness Chapel, Haydn Hall, Mather Memorial); Charles Hopkinson (1930 addition to Mather Memorial)","architectural_style":"Jacobethan, Late Gothic Revival, and Queen Anne variants","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rated excellent condition and occupied; owned by Case Western Reserve University and used for education. Haydn Hall's interior has suffered from lack of adequate maintenance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.277863-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001442/f68fd22673-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001442/f68fd22673-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rdikeman at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Case_western_reserve_campus_2005.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rdikeman at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Case_western_reserve_campus_2005.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987630","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Stone_Mather_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5460357"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/mather-flora-stone-college-district-74001442/"}