Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. 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 Broom-Braden Stone House is a historic residence located near the city of Cambridge in Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. Home to a prominent early citizen of the area, it is one of Guernsey County's best early houses still in existence, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Broom-Braden Stone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 18 National Register listings in Guernsey County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Guernsey County.
National Register reference number.80003032- 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 present volume of the Cambridge Medieval History covers the stormy period of about three hundred years from Justinian to Charles the Great inclusive. It is a time little known to the general reader, and even students of history in this country seldom turn their attention to any part of it but the Conversion of the English. Hence, English books are scarce - Dr Hodgkin's Italy and her Invaders is the brilliant exception which proves the rule - and the editors have had to rely more on foreign scholars than in the former volume. Some indeed of the chapters treat of subjects on which very little has ever been written in English, such as the Visigoths in Spain, the organisation of Imperial Italy and Africa, the Saracen invasions of Sicily and Italy, and the early history and expansion of the Slavs.
Taking all this for granted, then, we pass to the separate history of the individual countries just growing into states. For a time, they grow within the common mould of the Empire, and Carolingian traditions bind them to the past. Dimly to begin with, but with growing plainness, the realms of France, Germany, Italy, Lorraine, and Burgundy are seen taking their later territorial and constitutional shapes. England lay somewhat apart, insular, and therefore separated from the Empire, but by this very insularity everywhere exposed to Northmen and Danes. Here, too, as on the continent, statesman-like kings and far-sighted ecclesiastics worked together. The growth of territorial unity is easiest of all to trace, for it can be made plain in maps. But the growth of unity of thought and interests, of constitutions and social forms, is harder to see and to express; it is easier to estimate the work of Ecgbert, Edward the Elder, and Aethelstan than the more many-sided achievements of Alfred and Dunstan, or the more pervasive influence of the great Northern school which gave us Bede and Alcuin. But the peculiarity of England's position and history is most significant for constitutional growths, and it is, therefore, in connexion with English affairs that the origins of Feudalism are best investigated and discussed. Scientific history begins with the observation of resemblances and with classification by likeness. Then it passes on to detect differences, and to note their significance. Nowhere is there more need to remember these twin methods than in the study of Feudalism, where the Cambridge scholar Maitland was our daring and yet cautious guide. Processes and details which we notice in English history have their parallels elsewhere. If the centuries we traverse here have a large common inheritance, they also have at the same time, in spite of differences in place and character, something of a common history. What is said, therefore, as to the origins of English Feudalism also applies, with due allowance for great local differences, to Germany, France, and Italy ; even indeed to Spain, although there the presence and the conquests of the Muslims impressed a peculiar stamp upon its institutions.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Broom-Braden Stone House between
2009 and 2020, burning about 44 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
18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 345 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Broom-Braden Stone House between 1875 and
1975: 136 Fungi, 114 Animalia, 91 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Broom-Braden Stone House: 1 occurrence, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
Cambridge, the town this property stands in, in 78 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 47 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
An intense thunderstorm gust known as a macroburst raked across central Guernsey County, wind gusts were estimated between 80 and 90 mph. The thunderstorm formed in northeast Guernsey County about 430 pm just ahead of another very intense thunderstorm moving through Muskingum County. It then moved southeast at nearly 40 mph.The swath of damage produced by this intense downburst of wind was estimated to be nearly 8 miles long. Its width fluctuated between 0.75 miles to over 2.5 miles. The damage started just south of Cambridge and continued southeast to near the town of Buffalo. There were 3 reported injuries which consisted of cuts and abrasions. One person was treated and released from the hospital. The town of Byesville was hardest hit. Hundreds of trees were snapped or toppled. Power lines and telephone poles were also downed which resulted in widespread power outages. There were some outbuildings destroyed, as well as damage to shingles, siding and roofs. Part of a roof of a school was torn off. Billboards, business signs and Interstate highway signs were also partially or totally destroyed. It was also reported that about 30 automobiles in a grocery store parking lot had their windows completely shattered. A plate glass window in a fast food restaurant was also shattered. The area was declared a disaster area by the Governor of Ohio. On Interstate 77, there was a report of a tractor-trailed truck which was stopped in its tracks by the tremendous gust as it tried to move forward. It actually spun its wheels as if it were on ice without moving and an automobile behind it collided with the truck.
Emergency manager reported damage to the clock tower of an 150 year old courthouse, the collapse of a church, and several other structures damaged in the city of Cambridge.
Between 840 PM EDT and 9 PM EDT, a microburst struck just southwest of Warrentown, about 4 miles northeast of Cambridge. Numerous trees toppled or snapped. Siding and shingles torn from a few houses. Two small barns knocked down. One mobile home was pushed off its foundation. Maximum estimated wind 75 mph (65 knots). This microburst made a swath of sporadic damage about half a mile in length and 350 yards wide. It started from just south of Lakespur Lane, and moved northeastward to just south of Route 22
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
1,649 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
This one and one-half story house is built of sandstone, laid in an ashlar shed roof, added around 1900, covers the center three bays, is supported by slender The interior of the house has been altered, although most of the changes are The house features three rooms in the stone portion downstairs, with all windows now called the "wagon shed" contains a set of old stock weighing scales still in working order. Just west of it is a former corn crib, now used for storage. Both gambrel roof, built c. 1940 sits across Reed Road, southeast of the house.Three other UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED FAIR XALTERED CONDITION X.EXCELLENT of the windows toward the interior.Aluminum awnings shelter the facade windows.
The roof is gabled and covered with composition shingles.Two eyebrow dormers Several outbuildings are found on the property.A two-story frame building one are in good to excellent condition.A smokehouse is the only outbuilding courses and extended lug sills feature chiseled margins and tool marks within those on the west side.Windows vary in size and shape on this addition.
are set on the front roof slope; their semi-elliptical windows are divided into Two small windows are found in each of the gable ends.An open frame porch with a CHECK ONE one-story shed roofed frame addition was added c.1900 to span the rear of the _UNALTERED to the rear intact.A fireplace remains in the west end of the downstairs;one on just northwest of the house appears tobe one of the oldest remaining.A building bearing the date 1832."Windows are 2/2;the stone is beveled away from the sides -GOOD house. It contains three entrances, including a door leading to a full basement DATE RUINS Original ceiling heights have been retained and wood cabinets remain as original.
Hugh Broom, for whom the house was built, was an early religious leader, in Cambridge township, as well as other parcels in 1840. The house is located on the Old Birmingham Road, one of the oldest roads in the county (built 1818). This was once a heavily traveled road leading northeast 1500-1599 1832 1600-1699 ART LAW X1800-1899 BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC 1900- PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE 1400-1499 20th-century.
THEATER MILITARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LITERATURE MUSIC 1700-1799 XARCHITECTURE XAGRICULTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT where most stone work is quite plain.Features such as the porch and rear addition activity in the county, spurred by the Washingtonian Temperence Movement sweeping The Broom-Braden House is significant as one of the few remaining examples of INDUSTRY early stone house architecture in Guernsey County and is notable also for its RELIGION _TRANSPORTATION Architecturally, the house is of modest design and scale.It is of one and association with the Broom family in religious and agricultural pursuits. house and related outbuildings are in an excellent state of preservation.
of the chiseled detail on the facade stones and sills is very unusual for this area, livestock trade generated by the road; evidence of their prosperous trade remains _COMMERCE of the gable roof. ina set of large hand-operated livestock scales sheltered by a frame building _COMMUNICATIONS. -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN The house and 240 acres of the original land remain in the ownership of the were added around 1900 as were,'presumably,the eyelid dormerson the front slope INVENTION - The Broom family was active in farming and the which is set very close to the road.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003032, 17 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.
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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