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Standard House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Standard House is a landmark in the city of Peekskill in Westchester County, New York, built in 1855. It is located at 50 Hudson Avenue between South Water Street and the Metro-North Hudson Line train tracks.”

Wikipedia article Standard House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester 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. 50 Hudson Ave., Peekskill, 10566
  • When was it listed? September 2000
  • Category. building
  • City. Peekskill city
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00001158 - 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

415 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 415 fires within 5 miles of Standard House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,665 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined257
Arson/incendiarism47
Natural30
Smoking29
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony5

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony230 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Standard House: 23 past producers, 6 prospects, 6 occurrences, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Clay, Iron, Graphite. 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
Anthony's Nose DepositSulfurPast Producer
Cotton Rock Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
Nelson Property DepositCorundumProspect
Peekskill AreaTitanium, Metal, Iron, AluminumOccurrence
Peekskill Area ProspectTitanium, Aluminum, IronProspect
Peter Wyant Mica Property DepositMica, GraphiteProspect
Phillips MineMolybdenum, UraniumOccurrenceReplacement
Phillips MineSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, UraniumPast Producer1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith AreaCobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite MineIron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, SulfurPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peekskill, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2000Tornado (F1)Peekskill2 hurtno account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPeekskill$3,000ConEd utility reports downed power lines.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPeekskill$3,000A large branch down damaging a fence.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPeekskill$2,000Numerous trees were reported down in Peekskill.
May 2024HailPeekskill-Public reports 1.5 inch hail.
July 2023HailPeekskill-Quarter-sized hail observed one mile north of Buchanan.
July 2023HailPeekskill-Multiple reports of quarter-sized hail in Peekskill.
August 2011Flash FloodPeekskill-Main St., Park St. and Central Ave. in Peekskill were closed due to flooding.
October 2009FloodPeekskill-Route 9 was closed at Hudson Ave. due to flooding. The Saw Mill River Pkwy was also closed both northbound and southbound at exit 29 (Pleasantville Rd.).
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPeekskill-Trees were downed across Route 202.
July 2005HailPeekskill-Penny size hail.
May 2000LightningPeekskill-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPeekskill-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPeekskill-no account filed
August 1997Flash FloodPeekskill-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindPeekskill-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPeekskill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

16 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
Peekskill Freight Depot0.3 miles2004
Peekskill Presbyterian Church0.4 miles2002
Drum Hill High School0.4 miles1979
US Post Office-Peekskill0.4 miles1989
Peekskill Downtown Historic District0.7 miles2005
Ford Administration Building0.7 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001158 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 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.