Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2010. 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
“"The first attempt at foundmg a colony was made in 1854, but it was not altogether successful. The fact that some of the experimenters were not prepared for the free love theories urged by Frank Barry, and his immediate circle of friends was considered a sufficient reason for not entering upon anything of a practical sort till further agitation should develop all parties concerned to the proper point.”
A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio (1916). Machine-read text.
one of 175 National Register listings in Erie County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Erie County.
National Register reference number.10000874- 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
6,812 words
The chapter on Berlin Township in A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names Berlin Heights. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Berlin Heights became widely known at one time on account of a small free love community planted there. Only. one.citizen of the township became identified with this movement, the others coming from remote states. It was some time after the first gathering before a colony was established. Their peculiar tenets were taught and disseminated until 1860, when Point Hope Community was established upon a communistic basis, with about twenty members. It lasted about twelve months. A second organization, called the Industrial Fraternity, commenced in 1860, with twenty members, lived about six months. The third, the Berlin Community, or Christian Republic, commenced in 1865, had twelve adult members and six children and lived about one year. Mr. Hudson Tuttle, Berlin's well-known author, in writing of these people, says:
Several papers were started by the communists and had a brief eareer. The Social Revolutionist, in 1857, by J. 8S. Patterson; Age of Freedom, 1858; Good Time Coming, 1859; the New Republic, 1862; the Optimist and Kingdom of Heaven, 1869; the Principia or Personality, 1868 ; the New Campaign, 1871; the Toledo Sun, moved from Toledo to Berlin Heights in 1875, by John A. Laut.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,479 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Stone House, The between 1874 and
1975: 792 Plantae, 579 Animalia, 107 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. M. Evans 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Stone House, The: 6 producers, 2 past producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Berlin Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 1994 and 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
4,333 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.
Statement of significance
Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or Period of Significance represents the work of a master, or possesses high 1835 - 1907 artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Significant Dates important in prehistory or history.
Significant Person (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply) (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above) Owned by a religious institution or used for religious A purposes. Cultural Affiliation removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Period of Significance (justification) for Greek Revival architecture which was roughly 1835-1860 in Ohio. Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) Architecture history. Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder Applicable National Register Criteria Stone House for National Register listing) a cemetery.
(Enter categories from instructions) County and State Property is: Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information Erie County, OH Name of Property Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (provide a summary paragraph that includes level of significance and Typical of the simpler Greek Revival houses in Ohio, and in particular the Firelands area of the Connecticut Western Reserve settlement area of northeast Ohio, the house was built without an entry porch or side lights windows remain. In addition, what appears to be the original frieze is present. The corners of the front of the Developmental history/additional historic context information (if appropriate) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 10000874, 28 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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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