South Presbyterian Church

Built in 1869 (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

“South Presbyterian Church, usually just referred to as South Church, is located along Broadway in Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States. Founded in 1820, it is currently in its second building, a stone Gothic Revival style structure dating to 1869.”
Wikipedia article South Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1869, Gothic Revival, by Julius Munckwitz.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, 10522
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. building
Town. Greenburgh town
When was it built? 1869
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. Julius Munckwitz
National Register reference number. 00000548 - 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

663 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 663 fires within 5 miles of South Presbyterian Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 937 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 72 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	386
Arson/incendiarism	72
Natural	62
Recreation and ceremony	50
Smoking	35
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Debris and open burning	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	4

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	Natural	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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Presbyterian Church: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Taverniere & Johnson	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1897, 1908
Sparkill Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sparkill Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dobbs Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dobbs Ferry	-	Local police reported a large tree in Dobbs Ferry was knocked over during this storm. Local newspapers reported a path of downed trees, tree limbs and power lines that stretched from the Hudson River to Long Island Sound across central Westchester County. As a result, about 20,000 residents in the county lost power.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dobbs Ferry	-	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
Church of St. Joseph of Arimathea	under 500 feet	2002
Zion Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	2020
US Post Office-Dobbs Ferry	0.1 miles	1988
Estherwood and Carriage House	0.1 miles	1979
Hyatt-Livingston House	0.5 miles	1972
Nuits	0.7 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000548 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.