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Photograph of Dr. Peter Allen House
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Allen, Dr. Peter, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 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

“Peter Allen House is a registered historic building near Kinsman, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1971-09-03. It currently operates as the Peter Allen Inn & Event Center, a small inn and wedding venue.”

Wikipedia article Dr. Peter Allen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 32 National Register listings in Trumbull County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Trumbull County.

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.
  • Address. W. Williamsfield State Rd., N of intersection of OH 87, Kinsman, 44428
  • When was it listed? 1971-09-03
  • Category. building
  • Township. Kinsman township
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 71000653 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 111 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 111 specimens collected within 10 miles of Allen, Dr. Peter, House between 1910 and 1973: 78 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred, Conant, R. (Roger) & Murphy, M. K. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1917not recordedKinsman
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, at Kinsman, ~0.1 mi S of Kinsman, Kinsman township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus nebulosus, not of this specimenIctalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis Rafinesque, not of this specimenLepomis Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, at Kinsman, ~0.1 mi S of Kinsman, Kinsman township
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanSmall trib of the Pymaturning, center of Johnston Twnp
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Johnston Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio

All 111 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Allen, Dr. Peter, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vernon Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Kinsman Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kinsman Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Trumbull County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinsman, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Flash FloodKinsman$3,000,000Kinsman Lake in northern Trumbull County saw an estimated 5 to 6 inches of rainfall during the early morning hours of the 20th. A Flash Flood Warning was issued at 741 AM on the morning of the 20th due to an increase in rainfall rates peaking between 7 and 715 am around 4 inches per hour. The nine acre lake was overwhelmed by runoff and the earthen dam on the south side of the lake was overtopped by 2 to 4 feet of water as estimated by Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The dam eroded and broke around 811 AM. Immediately downstream of the dam the basement wall of home collapsed, and agricultural fields sustained significant erosion. In all the washed out bridge left 55 people in 21 homes cut off as a result of this failure. The flood waters continued down Stratton Creek into Pymatuning Creek and eventually into the Shenango River Lake in PA. No impacts were reported once the flood waters reached the Pymatuning Creek.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindKinsman$500,000A large thunderstorm moved across the eastern suburbs of Cleveland to the Pennsylvania border producing winds in excess of 70 mph at times. Winds were measured at 60 mph in downtown Cleveland (Cuyahoga County), 63 mph at Cuyahoga County Airport and 69 mph in Willoughby (Lake). Numerous trees were uprooted, some on power lines, some severely damaging cars and buildings. Many roads were blocked by debris. In Geauga County a greenhouse was destroyed and a trailer overturned. In Kinsman (Trumbull) a pickup truck was crushed by a large falling tree but the driver was unhurt. A 44 year-old Euclid (Cuyahoga) woman was killed near her home as she walked through an area with extensive debris and came into contact with a concealed downed power line. Power was out in some areas for up to 24 hours.
July 2014Flash FloodKinsman$60,000Heavy rain fell along and just south of the Ashtabula/Trumbull County line. Most of the rain fell over the Stratton and Maple Creek basins, tributaries to the Pymatuning Creek, near Kinsman. The creek overflowed it's banks and washed out portions of Kinsman-Pymatuning Road between Route 7 and Delin Thomas Road. The local golf course sustained significant damage to culverts and roads caused by the flood waters.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKinsman$15,000A trained spotter reported many trees and utility poles knocked down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKinsman$10,000Trumbull County Sheriff Dispatch reported numerous trees downed north of State Route 305 in Kinsman Township.
May 2014HailKinsman$5,000The media relayed a report of ping pong ball size hail near Kinsman.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindKinsman$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindKinsman$5,000Trees were downed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKinsman$4,000Several trees were reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindKinsman$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindKinsman$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb south of Kinsman.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKinsman-Numerous trees downed in Kinsman.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindKinsman-Tree downed in Kinsman.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindKinsman-Numerous trees downed in Kinsman area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKinsman-Numerous trees and power lines downed in Kinsman Township.
June 2012HailKinsman-Nickel sized hail was reported.
May 2007HailKinsman-Nickel size hail was observed.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindKinsman-Winds reported at 60 mph.
June 2019HailKinsman-no account filed
August 2019HailKinsman-no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodKinsman-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindKinsman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trumbull County

Map coverage status

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 pending.

From the nomination file

1,656 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

house in(1821. The house was designed by a little-known master builder, Will Smith, and was built for $3,000. on land Allen had purchased for married Fanny Starr, niece of General Simon Perkins of Warren, Ohio. At an unknown date the Allens sold the home to a local minister, Reverend dant of the original owner, purchased from Rev. Plant all the interior woodwork, installing some in two Cleveland homes. Mrs. Alice Blaemire, 1821 Architecture Conservation Transportation Engineering losophy Agriculture Science Theater Music Communications Aboriginal itarian Military Education Prehistoric Art Literature Landscape Pre-Columbian Political rural Midwestern setting.Its fine Federal proportions and the delicacy prompted the interior restoration and helped guarantee preservation.

Religion/Phi- drawings and photographs in 1936 by the Historic American Buildings Survey, Industry now her private residence. development of the architecture of the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio. trade in Ohio.It is as remarkable an achievement as can be found in any Sculpture and surgeon.During the War of 18l2 he served as a military surgeon.

Social/Human- and variety of its Adamsesque detailing mark an important step in the Dr.Peter Allen came to the Kinsman area in 1808 as a pioneer physician Commerce The Allen House has been a widely-recognized example of the early carpenter$ Public recognition of this house was spurred by the publication in 1933of In 1813 he married Charity Dudley, for whom he built his Federal-style and used the house as a tearoom from the 1950's to the mid-1960's.It is SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) $2. an acre. When Charity died in 1840 in a carriage accident, Allen James Plant, who occupied it himself. In 1903 Dr. Peter Allen, a descen- I. T. Frary's Early Homes of Ohio.

Read the complete 1,656-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 1,656 words, 11 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 71000653, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Darrow, Clarence, Octagon House0.6 miles1971
Congregational-Presbyterian Church0.7 miles1971
Raymond, Liberty G., Tavern and Barn7.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000653 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Trumbull CountyAll 32 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.
  • 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.