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Reeves, Jeremiah, House and Carriage House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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
“Reeves Home and Carriage House Museum is located at 325 East Iron Avenue in Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The house is also alternatively known as the Dover Historical Society and the J.E.”
Wikipedia article Jeremiah Reeves House and Carriage House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 20 National Register listings in Tuscarawas County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Tuscarawas County.
National Register reference number.82003661- 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
27 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Reeves, Jeremiah, House and Carriage House between
2005 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Arson/incendiarism
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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 609 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Reeves, Jeremiah, House and Carriage House between 1851 and
1973: 446 Animalia, 146 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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
10 workings within 5 miles of Reeves, Jeremiah, House and Carriage House: 5 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Dover, the town this property stands in, in 74 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 39 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A 19-year old woman was struck by lightning outside her home as she was attempting to move a large umbrella. She was taken to the local hospital and listed in satisfactory condition.
Widespread trees and power lines down across Dover, Mineral City, and Sherrodsville. Some trees were on homes in these locations, no injuries reported.
The local fire department reported that high wind lasted for 5 minutes and brought down several trees in the area. Several trees were down on a number of homes in the area.
Trees downed by thunderstorm winds in Dover. In Dundee a large barn collapsed during a thunderstorm. Losses included 2700 bales of hay and straw and 20 pigs.
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
6,654 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
important of which is the most evident.The present structure was adapted in 1897 The Carriage House (1902) repeats the tower-and-arches theme of the main building. of the building from the heirs of Valentine Mills. -fair _ deteriorated east elevation. A curved veranda, part of which is enclosed (c. 1920), part of which _ good The Reeves-era building is primarily of painted brick and features a multifaceted asymetrical front elevation. The tower's roof is domed in four-part fashion with a A central cupola at the roof crest features a weather vane; paired polygonal tower of brick-work.
Corbelling of brick on either side of the main entry tops recessed square arcades.The foundation of the irregularly-shaped building is mounted by an a polygonal tent roof and finial.The skin of this feature and other bay-like Areas of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) of the exuberant architectural display sought by rags-to-riches small town Ohio The Reeves Residence and Carriage House are significant exanples of the in the vicinity of his Iron Avenue house, among other ventures. and the Reeves Banking and Trust Company. established (in 1872) the Reeves Boiler Works whose most notable customer was the The house was purchased in 1897 by one of Dover's leading industrialists -commerce Fostoria and Findley Line Reeves Banking and Trust Company of Dover (l903), Standard Oil Company. -archeology-prehistoric _ community planning _ landscape architecture - __ religion _ exploration/settlement.
- philosophy architectural eclecticism practiced by turn-of-the-century builder-craftsmen, and of their ventures, the Reeves Manufacturing Company, the Dover Forge and Iron Company While the Reeves residence reveals Rees' capacity to combine architectural styles 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003661, 30 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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