Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. 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
one of 18 National Register listings in Wayne County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001648- 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
5 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Barnet-Hoover Log House between
2002 and 2002, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
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. Museums hold 2,058 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Barnet-Hoover Log House between 1877 and
1975: 1,671 Animalia, 198 Plantae, 150 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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
1 working within 5 miles of Barnet-Hoover Log House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Orrville, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.
Thunderstorm winds downed at least 16 trees and many large limbs in the Orville area. One home had a window blown out as well. Scattered power outages were reported.
Thunderstorm winds downed up to two dozen trees and snapped six power poles two miles south of Dalton. One of the fallen trees destroyed a garage and a second damaged a house.
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
3,417 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.
Description of the property
composed of mortised and tenoned sills, corner posts, and Because of the addition, alterations full length front porch was added to the remodeled structure. half story addition of mortised posts and beams, built after contains a corner staircase and fireplace/chimney. The floor to the older house were necessary: 1) Both doors were It is apparent from the whitewash on the logs under the porch 1970. "tie-beams." door opens into the dining room. 1833 by John Hoover,apparently designed to simulate log The frame shed addition to The Barnett--Hoover log house stands on its original site,now The only walls on both floors. scabbed to the log house. new alignment of rooms created on the second floor;and,6)a Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!
- 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Science - Sculpture STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
of alterations, the Barnett--Hoover house must be con sidéred " forming the walls. handled separately in assembly, and interlocked rather than and window openings, wall partitions, etc., in order to utilize the new wing, add to the interest of the remodeled Here, then, is a substantial lst quarter 19th century log APR 2 3 1974 Commerce craftsmen. SIGNIFICANCE losophy house. Transportation Conservation REGISTER Architecture Landscape Military Theater Literature Aboriginal Religion/Phi Communications Engineering NATIONAL Agriculture itarian Education Invention Music The simple alterations Industry Political plans include using the house as an Amish museum and for and exacting building technique.
Social/Human- made to the older log house, such as the shifting of door a precise name due to its apparent rarity: reason to believe that the house was remodeled by Amish house enlarged and modified to meet the requirements ofa "Braced-frame on a branch campus of the University of Akron where it is remained unique in Ohio insofar as constructional technique AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) The one and a half overlapped as in log bullding, would imply a rather tedious Art is concerned. significant because of its alterations. There is good is perhaps the best applicable term, though not precisely small group meetings of an academic nature. 2nd quarter 19th century family. "had tobe
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001648, 27 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 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.
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.
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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