Cleveland

Steven McQuillin & Associates has worked in many Cleveland neighborhoods, including Ohio City, Tremont, Detroit-Shoreway, Hough, Cudell, Brooklyn Centre, Fairfax, Broadway, Clark-Fulton, the Flats, Warehouse District and Edgewater.  Five Cleveland National Register district nominations have been prepared, one having over 1,000 properties.

Brooklyn Centre

Steven McQuillin has served for 18 years as chairman of the Brooklyn Centre Design Review Committee. In that capacity, he helped shape the design of a new city fire station that complements the character of the neighborhood and worked on designs for McDonald’s, Wendy’s Shell, BP and Aldi’s that harmonize with the neighborhood, using real brick, historic lampposts and wrought iron fences. Several important preservation projects and the construction of a sympathetically designed neighborhood shopping center were also completed.

Gates Mills

Gates Mills has a history as an early mill town that developed at the turn of the last century as a wealthy suburban community wherein many of the small older farmhouses were preserved while major picturesque estates were created in the rolling Chagrin River valley. The community today is one of the Cleveland area’s most historically intact and desirable suburbs. McQuillin has had the privilege of serving for 14 years as preservation consultant to the village, writing design guidelines, setting boundaries for the local historic district, nominating the village to the National Register of Historic Places. McQuillin has also participated in the design and planning for every major building project in the core area of the village during his time as consultant.

Olmsted Falls

Olmsted Falls is a community that has a rich past, first as a township center and early mill town, later as a small manufacturing village and finally as a suburban Cleveland community. It has an intact commercial core and surrounding historic residential area that is being recognized as a National Register district under a nominated prepared by McQuillin. Steve McQuillin has served as preservation consultant to Olmsted Falls, inventorying historic properties, preparing design guidelines, drafting the local preservation ordinance, helping to develop a community plan and then preparing the National Register district nomination.

Elyria

Elyria is the city where Steve McQuillin grew up and Steve’s first involvement in historic preservation began there. A magnificent old mansion used as the city’s public library was torn down when McQuillin was 16 years old and he was only able to ineffectually protest its demolition. McQuillin's work in Elyria includes drafting its preservation ordinance, nominating about a dozen buildings to the National Register and creating a National Register district along Washington Ave. McQuillin also authored a book on Lorain County landmarks and inventoried hundreds of properties there. He prepared National Register nominations for Wellington, Vermilion, Oberlin and Brownhelm.

North Central Ohio

From 1978-81, McQuillin served as Regional Preservation Officer for North Central Ohio, In that capacity, he prepared National Register district nominations in Mansfield, Wooster, Coshocton, Mount Vernon, Centerburg, Gambier, Fredericktown, Chesterville. He did other planning activities in that region and helped to host a preservation conference in Mount Vernon in 1980.

Canton

McQuillin has served as preservation consultant to the City of Canton for over seven years and has inventoried over a thousand properties in the city and assisted in delineating potential National Register districts in the city.

Other Survey Work

Steven McQuillin & Associates has also done extensive survey work for Alliance, Willoughby, Akron, Springfield, Hiram, Canfield and Mentor.