Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1991. 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 Gerald B. and Beverley Tonkens House is a single-story private residence in Amberley, Ohio, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954.”
Wikipedia article Gerald B. and Beverley Tonkens House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.91001414- 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 7,760 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 7,760 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Tonkens, Gerald B. and Beverley, House between 1819 and
1975: 4,431 Fungi, 1,879 Animalia, 954 Plantae, 441 Protozoa, 33 Unrecorded, 21 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14753, A Schwartz, A. Braun 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 Tonkens, Gerald B. and Beverley, House: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 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.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
5,089 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.
Statement of significance
was written by Bruce Brooks Pfieffer the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, in 1952. Continuation Sheet the ceiling which was made of concrete block and reinforced steel. supervised and provided all engineering drawings while on the site in The Usonian Automatic carried the system much further by adding a ceiling of National Park Service labor could easily perform; a great savings in labor costs. National Register of Historic Places altered, changed or revised since the construction was completed in 1955, have sought out the house as one of the finest examples of Wright's Usonian one next to the other, steel rods were inserted into the grooves, running Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona for this National Register nomination, October 8, 1990.
first client to build.with it was Benjamin Adelman who built a house near Tonkens died in February of 1990. OMB Approwel No. 1024-0018 Page - Mendel Glickman, Professor of Mathematics at The other two called for specially made concrete blocks, with cast houses, the Boulter house in the Clifton area and the other house in the Bodil Pieper, apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright, built a small house for By stacking the blocks and then inserting steel and concrete, the customary Automatic architecture. Cincinnati and Tom Casey also assisted in the construction supervision. patterns and perforations. collaboration with the Taliesen Foundation. headquarters in Arizona. Oklahoma University, along with Wesley Peters and Mr. Wright, engineered The exterior Mr.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 91001414, 55 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.
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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