Epworth Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Epworth Hall is a historic assembly hall located in Castile township in Wyoming County, New York. It was built in 1892 in the Colonial Revival style and is the largest of three such halls on the grounds of the Silver Lake Institute, a Methodist-affiliated camp facility established in 1873.”
Wikipedia article Epworth Hall (Perry, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wyoming County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Perry Ave., Perry, 14549
When was it listed? April 2000
Category. building
Town. Castile town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 00000350 - 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

99 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Epworth Hall between 2001 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
5 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Wyoming County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Epworth Hall: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine. 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
Silver Springs Plant	Bromine	Past Producer	Brine
Geyers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
A.Kerr Bros.& Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
Castile Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
Duncan Salt Co.Well	Salt	Past Producer
F.Eaton Well	Salt	Past Producer
J.Harding No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Morton Salt Co.Salt Well No.13.	Salt	Past Producer
Morton Salt/ Silver Springs Plant	Salt	Unknown

Every working recorded in Wyoming County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2003	Flash Flood	Perry	$250,000	no account filed
June 2015	Flash Flood	Perry	$100,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Perry	$22,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$15,000	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$15,000	no account filed
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$12,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2002	Hail	Perry	$10,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Perry	$5,000	no account filed
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
August 2002	Hail	Perry	$2,000	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wyoming County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1905 USGS Portage quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Castile quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Castile quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Castile quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Orator F. Woodward Cottage	under 500 feet	2016
Silver Lake Institute Historic District	under 500 feet	1985
Barna C. Roup House	1.7 miles	2015
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Perry	1.7 miles	2006
Perry Downtown Historic District	1.7 miles	2012
Perry Village Hall	1.8 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000350 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wyoming County	All 26 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.