Center Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Center Theatre, also known as the Woodbourne Theater, is a historic theatre located at Woodbourne in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1938 and is a three bays wide, two stories tall Art Deco structure.”
Wikipedia article Center Theatre (Woodbourne, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2001 · 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 52, Woodbourne, 12788
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. building
Town. Fallsburg town
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 01000170 - 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

164 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Center Theatre between 1998 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 26 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	10
Other causes	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
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
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2014	Smoking	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2012	Natural	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Center Theatre: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Maston Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Maston Lake Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodbourne, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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	Lightning	Woodbourne	$50,000	Lightning started a house fire in Woodbourne on Mongaup Road. The house was destroyed. House cost is an estimate.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires near 461 Route 52.
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$10,000	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires near 141 Michigan Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$5,000	Power lines and trees down in Woodbourne and Summitville. Power lines and trees down also in Fallsburg at 1315 EST.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Riverside Drive.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires onto Michigan Road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	$1,000	Trees were blown down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbourne	-	The New York State Mesonet station WBOU (Woodbourne) measured a gust of 59 mph.
July 2014	Hail	Woodbourne	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Woodbourne	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Woodbourne	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Woodbourne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Woodbourne Reformed Church Complex	0.3 miles	2003
Hasbrouck Stone House	2.4 miles	2019
Loch Sheldrake Synagogue	3.0 miles	1997
Ohave Shalom Synagogue	3.6 miles	2000
South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue	3.8 miles	2000
Levitz Family Farm	4.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000170 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.