Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Best House and Office is a historic home in Middleburgh, Schoharie County, New York. It is a two-story, flat-roofed, frame Italianate dwelling built in 1884.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Best, Dr. Christopher S., House and Office - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 34 Clauverwie St., Middleburgh, 12122
When was it listed? August 2001
Category. building
Town. Middleburgh town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000849 - 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

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office between 2000 and 2019, burning about 103 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	9
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 July 2003	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 June 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 June 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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
Masick Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Masick Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schoharie Pyrite Deposit	Sulfur, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Spring Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1898 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1944 USGS Middleburgh quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Middleburgh quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
US Post Office-Middleburgh	0.1 miles	1989
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church	0.2 miles	2006
Bellinger-Dutton House	0.6 miles	2005
Upper Middleburgh Cemetery	0.9 miles	2003
Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop	3.4 miles	2015
Johannes Jr. Lawyer House	4.3 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000849 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.