Horace O. Moss House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Moss House, also known as Preferred Manor, is a historic home located at New Berlin in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1831 and is a 2-story, five-by-five-bay, fieldstone house with a 1-story frame addition and truncated hip roof with central belvedere.”
Wikipedia article Horace O. Moss House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Moss, Horace O., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 45 S. Main St., New Berlin, 13411
When was it listed? May 1974
Category. building
Town. New Berlin town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 74001224 - 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.

Fires near this property

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Horace O. Moss House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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	25
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
21 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Horace O. Moss House: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	C.C.Lobdell No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect
	New Berlin Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Berlin, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Flash Flood	New Berlin	$250,000	Numerous roads, bridges, and homes were flooded in the village.
July 2021	Flash Flood	South New Berlin	$15,000	Several roads flooded in the area, including Mount Upton and South New Berlin. State Route 8 inundated in several places.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$10,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in numerous trees being knocked over across the county.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$5,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in multiple trees being knocked over in the New Berlin area near state highway 8, along Turnpike Road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$5,000	Trees were blown down in south New Berlin.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Willow Lane.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$3,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked trees over on Shacktown mountain road.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	South New Berlin	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	$1,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	New Berlin	$1,000	A severe thunderstorm produced a brief tornado around 7:10 p.m EDT which uprooted some trees near the Riverbend golf course along Route 8. The tornado was first spotted, and subsequently photographed, looking east from the Norwich Fairgrounds where several eyewitnesses spotted a funnel cloud during the Bluegrass Festival around 7 p. m. EDT. The apparent tornado was tracked moving east-northeast crossing Routes 23 and 8 to the south of New Berlin. After it's brief touchdown, the tornado gradually lifted as it moved toward Otsego County with no further reports of touchdowns or damage.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	-	Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2008	Hail	New Berlin	-	Penny size hail was also reported.
May 2000	Flash Flood	New Berlin	-	Numerous roads were closed due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains.
May 2012	Hail	New Berlin	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	New Berlin	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	New Berlin	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	New Berlin	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	New Berlin	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chenango County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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.

1910 USGS New Berlin quadrangle1:62500
1912 USGS New Berlin quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1943 USGS New Berlin South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS New Berlin South quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
New Berlin Historic District	0.2 miles	1982
Columbus Community Church	4.8 miles	1986
Eaton Family Residence-Jewish Center of Norwich	7.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chenango County	All 47 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.