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Photograph of College Point Little League Building
Photograph by 4jonah, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Firemen's Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Firemen's Hall is a historic meeting hall located in the College Point section of the New York City borough of Queens. It was built in 1906-1907 and is a two-story, rectangular brick building with a hipped roof in the Queen Anne style.”

Wikipedia article College Point Little League Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 13-28 123rd St., College Point, 11356
  • When was it listed? August 2000
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Queens
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 00001013 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Firemen's Hall, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Firemen's Hall, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,226 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,226 fires within 5 miles of Firemen's Hall between 2002 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 139 started naturally. 103 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/undetermined1581
Smoking141
Natural139
Arson/incendiarism103
Recreation and ceremony76
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use58
Misuse of fire by a minor53
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes1

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Firemen's Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
National Gypsum/ Bronx MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Queens 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.

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
First Reformed Church of College Point0.2 miles2018
Poppenhusen Institute0.4 miles1977
RKO Keith's Theater1.7 miles1982
Flushing Town Hall1.7 miles1972
Flushing High School1.7 miles1992
Old Quaker Meetinghouse1.8 miles1967

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens CountyAll 108 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.