A National Historic Landmark. 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
“Dennison is a historic railway station located at 400 Center Street in Dennison, Ohio. The depot was built between 1884 and 1900, and the baggage room was built circa 1912.”
Wikipedia article Dennison station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 20 National Register listings in Tuscarawas County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Tuscarawas County.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.76001536- 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
29 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pennsylvania Railroad Depot And Baggage Room between
2004 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Recreation and ceremony
1
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 494 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pennsylvania Railroad Depot And Baggage Room between 1851 and
1973: 382 Animalia, 75 Plantae, 35 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Perry, Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M. 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
9 workings within 5 miles of Pennsylvania Railroad Depot And Baggage Room: 7 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Dennison, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.
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
11,526 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
building. Both portions of the building have gable roofs. The roofline of The shallow angle of the larger gable roof adjoins a 7-1/2 foot pent roof of the two building portions. Beneath the gablet of the ticket office on tracks. interesting series of wood brackets and bracing members.The gablets are which extends around the entire building. similar in detail to the depot.It is nearly square with simpler wood wood sided. There is a single chimney to the northwest of the intersection The pent roof is supported by an the track side there isa decorative brickwork and panelsofmolded glass. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
being transported. Coffee, orangeade, sandwiches, cookies and cakes were to Dennison as "Dreamsville, Ohio". 1873 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 COMMERCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION RELIGION INDUSTRY ART BUILDER/ARCHITECT THEATER MILITARY PERIOD ARCHITECTURE 1900- SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE PREHISTORIC SCIENCE SCULPTURE LAW _COMMUNICATIONS LITERATURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _ENGINEERING the entire line. that the railine began heavy use and shortly thereafter that the Dennison tracks between Columbus and Pittsburgh as one of the major stops between these _CONSERVATION separate rail companies operating the entire line from Pittsburgh to Columbus The line through Dennison was incorporated by the Steubenville G Indiana R.R.in 1600-1699 the railroads and the prosperity they brought to small towns.
_ECONOMICS During WWI and WWII the Dennison Depot served as a canteen for servicemen _EDUCATION Depot was built.In 192l the Pennsylvania R.R.took over the operation of dubbed The finest canteen in the world"by some.Other servicemen referred -MUSIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING X1 800-1899 The Dennison Depot and Baggage Room were constructed in 1873 along the main railroad the Central Ohio R.R. tracks to complete the line to Columbus. By 1868 the four $5,633,000 investment in the Columbus-Pittsburgh line.
It was at this point ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT It was affectionately _PHILOSOPHY began to merge.The Pennsylvania R.R.Co.began operation in 187l;it has a all over the globe recalling the hospitality of the canteen.I 1849 and opened in 1855.In 1857 arrangments were made to convey traffic over
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001536, 106 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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