St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Built in 1923 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located on Bedford Road in Katonah, New York, United States. It is a Tudor Revival structure dating to the early 1920s, housing a congregation restarted in the early 20th century.”
Wikipedia article St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Katonah, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1923, Tudor Revival architecture, by Hobart Upjohn.

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. 68 Bedford Rd., Katonah, Town of Bedford, 10536
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. building
Town. Bedford town
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
Architect. Hobart Upjohn
National Register reference number. 00001612 - 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

299 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 18 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	151
Natural	41
Smoking	30
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	18
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester 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 St. Luke's Episcopal Church: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Somers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Somers Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Baylis Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Baylis Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock Quarries	Stone	Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock Quarries	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

13 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 Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1928 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1944 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 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
Katonah Village Historic District	under 500 feet	1983
Stepping Stones	1.1 miles	2004
John Jay Homestead	1.3 miles	1972
Richard H. Mandel House	2.3 miles	1996
Caramoor	2.3 miles	2001
Bridge L-158	2.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001612 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.