Church of St. Barnabas

Built in 1853 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Barnabas is an Episcopal house of worship in Irvington, New York, United States. It is a stone Gothic Revival structure whose oldest sections date to the mid-19th century, with several expansions undertaken since then.”
Wikipedia article Church of St. Barnabas (Irvington, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1853, Gothic Revival, by James Renwick Jr..

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 15 N Broadway, Irvington, 10533
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. building
Town. Greenburgh town
When was it built? 1853
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. James Renwick Jr.
National Register reference number. 00000241 - 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

740 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 740 fires within 5 miles of Church of St. Barnabas between 2000 and 2020, burning about 991 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 70 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	417
Natural	71
Arson/incendiarism	70
Smoking	59
Recreation and ceremony	55
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Debris and open burning	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Church of St. Barnabas: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Rhenium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer
Sparkill Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sparkill Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irvington, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	$2,000	On Broadway Road near Route 9, large tree limbs and branches down.
July 2022	Hail	Irvington	-	Spotter report of 1 inch hail.
September 2021	Flash Flood	East Irvington	-	East Sunnyside Lane was flooded and impassable in Irvington with water more than a foot deep in spots. Widespread flooding was also occurring elsewhere in the village.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Irvington	-	All lanes were closed in both directions due to flooding on US 9 in the vicinity of West Clinton Avenue in Irvington.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1932 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
McVickar House	under 500 feet	2004
Croton Aqueduct, Old	0.1 miles	1974
Irvington Town Hall	0.1 miles	1984
Irvington Historic District	0.2 miles	2014
Villa Lewaro	0.2 miles	1976
Lord and Burnham Building	0.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000241 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.