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 Pomerene House is the residence of Atlee Pomerene, United States Senator from Ohio in the early 20th century. President Calvin Coolidge appointed Senator Pomerene as one of two individuals to investigate the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding Administration.”
Wikipedia article Pomerene House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 13 National Register listings in Holmes County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80003102- 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
8 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pomerene House between
2005 and 2019, burning about 8 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
6
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 182 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pomerene House between 1890 and
1974: 144 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. C. 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Pomerene House: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Berlin, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
An EF1 tornado touched down two miles northwest of Berlin around 2:40 pm EDT. The tornado then moved southeast to Walnut Creek and eventually moved into Tuscarawas County near Sugar Creek. This tornado did not appear to be in contact with the ground the entire length of the damage path. The damage path in Holmes County was nearly nine miles in length and up to 100 yards in width. Damage occurred to around a dozen homes and buildings along the damage path. Most of the damage was from lost roofing or siding. A camper trailer was blown over and a garage was also knocked off of it's foundation. Some large signs were torn off of the roof of a business located east of Berlin. The signs landed in a nearby parking lot and damaged at least eight cars. Dozens of trees and at least two utility poles were knocked down along the damage path.
Heavy rainfall moved into Holmes County between 700 and 800 pm on the evening of the 26th. A line of thunderstorms over Wayne County moved south into Holmes County where there was a cell merger. This cause a brief period of storm back building and training over north central Holmes County. During this period the rainfall rates were estimated around 5 inches per hour. The storm motions were from north to south, paralleling the extent of the Killbuck Creek river basin starting in the headwaters. This confined the majority of the runoff to that single basin. The result was flash flooding in several areas across Holmes County. One home in Monroe and Prairie Township was flooded on County Road 320 from Paint Creek. Prairie Township Fire Department rescued people from a car in high water. One unofficial rainfall report of 3.00 came from Berlin in eastern Holmes County. An official reading in Holmesville of 2.72 was measured between 7 pm and 8 pm.
A line of thunderstorms oriented north to south from Wayne through Coshocton County Ohio brought heavy rainfall to Holmes County between 345 pm and 530 pm. The heaviest rain fell between 400 pm and 445 pm with rates measured over 3 per hour. Doughty Creek located near Mechanic Township in eastern Holmes County saw flash flooding. The creek, normally a dry bed, caused damage to a truck parked in the area. Also impacted were two campgrounds located along the creek off of township road 154.
Law enforcement reported water was across SR-39 near Berlin with about 3 feet of water in the parking lot of the Amish country flea market. Public reported high water along SR 241 near the Holmes-Wayne county line. At 1030 PM Doughty Creek out of its banks at TR-356 and TR-375 south of Berlin. Measured rainfall observations of 3.96 near Berlin between 7:50 PM and 10:00 PM, mostly between 7:55 PM and 9:20 PM.
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
1,669 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 Pomerene House is a residence located near the center of the small village of Berlin. is rectangular in plan, five bays wide across the front and three across on the sides. rear wing is at the southwest corner. A robust, massive cornice crowns the main section portion are identical and are long and narrow. The windows are segmental arched and of a set of doors with a segmental arched transom above. Above the main entrance is located on the east side. with elaborately carved balusters and an ornate newel post. Spacious parlors exist on the first floor. They feature ornate woodwork, marble fireplaces and interior window of 1877 is visible on one. The fireplaces in the two east parlors are rather uniquely An ornate iron fence, with gateposts borders the front of the house.
Directly open space. East of here is where Dr. Pomerene's office, a small Greek Revival building, was located. It has been removed and replaced by a stone monument. This rough-cut granite slab is about four feet high and contains a large bronze plaque with a picture of Senator Atlee Pomerene, plus inscriptions. Nearby are other resi- At present the house is divided into apratments. Restoration of the building is underway with the goal of restoring the house to its original condition and creating been painted the original color scheme, with missing brackets duplicated. The present front porch will be removed and the original reconstructed. Condition ruins baseboards.
unexposed Check one alteration to the house is a one story projecting bay window and small entrance porch, chimney.The kitchen and rear wing areas have been altered.Upstairs are several _ deteriorated X altered It is a two story wood frame structure which rests on a sandstone foundation.
(in one paragraph) Atlee Pomerene, an early twentieth century statesman of national importance who was Administration. Pomerene achieved such national recognition from his role in these investigations that he was nominated as Ohio's favorite son candidate at the 1928 Peter Piersol Pomerene began his practice of medicine in Berlin in 1855. For local figure. In 1879 after fire had damaged his previous residence on this site, expenses : on the project which are now in the present owner's possession. The sons of Peter Pomerene, under his encouragement, all achieved college degrees. Pomerene, the second oldest son, attended the Hayesville Academy and graduated from Princeton in 1884. Two years later he achieved his law degree from Cincinnati Law being elected lieutenant governor in 1910.
The following year he was elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio General Assembly. He was reelected in 1916. In 1923, President former Vice President Charles G. Dawes. This building is the only residence where Senator Pomerene lived while in Holmes County which survives today. The home where he was born and spent his childhood once occupied this site, but was destroyed by fire in 1879, whereupon the Pomerene family erected the present house remained the Pomerene family home throughout the Senator's political career, so his association with the residence did not end with his childhood but continued over a period of many years.
1879 1700-1799 communications 1400-1499 theater economics conservation Period Builder/Architect education humanitarian invention science sculpture agriculture prehistoric 8. Significance city solicitor and later county prosecutor.Cleveland's Mayor Tom L.Johnson introduced law 1900- distinctive Italianate residence. Specific dates frequently visited here,particularly during the time he lived in nearby Canton.This 1500-1599 Harding named him as the U.S.Delegate to the International Conference of American States.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003102, 12 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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