Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.76001388- 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 1,110 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,110 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Buehl House between 1849 and
1975: 1,011 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 30 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. G. Newhall 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 National Weather Service names
Berea, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across Cuyahoga County during the morning hours of the 7th. The first reports of flash flooding occurred in Berea and then quickly expanded into Brookpark. Several roads, including State Route 237 through Berea, were closed. As the heavy rain continued, major streets across Cleveland became flooded. In downtown Cleveland, flash flooding occurred along streets just north of Superior Avenue, especially near the intersection with Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. In this area, seventeen people had to be rescused from their vehicles, and a total of thirty five rescues were performed on other streets throughout downtown Cleveland. Approximately thirty eight residences and two businesses sustained major flood damage. Rainfall reports across Cuyahoga County from this event ranged from 1.74 inches in North Royalton to 3.74 inches in Westlake. The majority of the rain fell in a four hour time period between 7 am and 11 am.
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
2,088 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
The main portion of the building is nearly square, two storied, constructed block while the sides have unpolished block and the rear is rough hewn stone. across the facade. The door is flanked by pilasters, sidelights, and has Each of the side have four, 1/1 pane windows, two on each floor. The foundation has three irregularly spaced windows on the second floor. A later, one-story addition, also of stone, covers three-quarters of the lower section. This six downstairs and four upstairs. CONDITION MOVED DATE UNEXPOSED DESCRIPTION XALTERED UNALTERED FAIR CHECK ONE _DETERIORATED chimney..The main portion of the house has a hip roof with a center chimney.
The roof overhangs slightly and there is a plain wood cornice.All windows are without 1intels but have plain stone sills.There is a shed roofed porch on the west side of the kitchen addition. two 1/l pane windows placed in the center of the remaining portion of the a plain, glass transom.Three stone steps lead to the entrance. -RUINS -GOOD is also stone and has exposed, single pane, windows. The rear of the building The interior retains its original appearance. There are oak moldings, built in china closets and original fireplaces. There are a total of 10 rooms, of cut Berea sandstone.The front of the building is of polished sandstone The facade has an entrance placed to the left of the center and there are AREAS OF
Statement of significance
from hand tooled sandstone. The material from which the house century home, and has been marked and researched by the Berea Historical The village of Berea was known throughout the world for the sandstone that produced grindstones and building materials that were used to construct Building, the Ohio Capital Building and many more structures throughout been recognized citizens of the community. Dr. John Clark, a well-known physician during the 1860's, was one of the early owners and is believed to have built the home in 1859. The Buehl Family, who have owned the home since 1918, goal is realized, the historical material that is part of their heritage will be history of Berea to the 23,000 residents, including over 5,000 students of the Berea City School District.
1600-1699 1400-1499 COMMERCE ART Society. SIGNIFICANCE ECONOMICS EDUCATION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC THEATER PERIOD XARCHITECTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT SCIENCE AGRICULTURE LAW PREHISTORIC LITERATURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ENGINEERING MILITARY _1700-1799 XINDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS _1500-1599 _TRANSPORTATION have been honored and respected citizens of the community. in 1839. _CONSERVATION _PHILOSOPHY INVENTION The Berea Historical Society desires to purchase this home for a museum.If this it produced from the quarries located within the community.The industry The social value of the home was contributed by the previous owners.They have -SCULPTURE -RELIGION -MUSIC _1900- ARCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING Berea Seminary in 1845.
It was recorded in the Cuyahoga County record books the Chicago Palmer House, Michigan Capital Building, Canada's Parliamentary Cuyahoga Stone Company, and the Berea Stone Company. The land was the geographical limit of the industry. The house is symbolic of the industry that flourished and made "Berea Grit" famous during the early twentieth century.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001388, 18 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.
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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