Built in 1875 (Carpenter Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.
From the record
“Berding Home is a historic Carpenter Gothic Victorian style house with Italianate accents built by pioneer merchant Arnold Berding in 1875 at 455 Ocean Avenue in Ferndale, Humboldt County, California is also called "The Gum Drop Tree House" from the neatly trimmed row of 150 year old cypresses in front.”
Wikipedia article A. Berding House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1875, Carpenter Gothic.
National Register reference number.83001180- 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.
Then and now
1916 to 1987
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19161987
Fires near this property
64 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 64 fires within 5 miles of A. Berding House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Debris and open burning
14
Recreation and ceremony
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Natural
1
Smoking
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of A. Berding House: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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