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Donnelly House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

“Donnelly House is a historic home located at New Lebanon in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1760 and is a modestly scaled saltbox style residence.”

Wikipedia article Donnelly House (New Lebanon, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia 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

  • Address. Cty. Rd. 5, New Lebanon, 12029
  • When was it listed? August 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. New Lebanon town
  • National Register reference number. 00000880 - 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.

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Donnelly House, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Donnelly House, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Donnelly House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined90
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 Donnelly House: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincProducerReplacement Vein
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Canaan Pb-Ag MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerVein
Lovelace MineIronProducer1866
Lovelace MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lebanon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Several trees and wires were downed throughout the Town of New Lebanon including Route 20, Route 22 and Mill Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees and wires were downed in the Town of New Lebanon.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Tree was downed onto a car.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees were reported down in New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees and wires were reported down in New Lebanon due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in New Lebanon.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees were reported down in New Lebanon and also in Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

22 surveys

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Elisha Gilbert House1.6 miles1984
New Lebanon District No. 8 School2.3 miles2021
Shaker North Family Barn2.7 miles1966
Gov. Samuel J. Tilden Monument3.1 miles2006
Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm3.2 miles2019
Lebanon Springs Union Free School3.2 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000880 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.