W.F. DeWitt Hotel

Built in 1865 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“DeWitt Hotel is a historic hotel located at Durham in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1865, and is a seven bay by three bay, frame building in the Italianate style.”
Wikipedia article W. F. DeWitt Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1865, Renaissance Revival architecture.

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.
Listed as. DeWitt, W.F., Hotel - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7803 NY 81, Durham, 12460
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. building
Town. Durham town
When was it built? 1865
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01001389 - 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

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of W.F. DeWitt Hotel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 11 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 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
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	$10,000	no account filed
September 2023	Lightning	Durham	$1,000	Lightning struck a home on Allen Teator Road.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	A local 911 call center operator reported trees and wires down in town of Durham.
October 2021	Flood	Durham	-	Minor flooding was reported along Route 145 in the Town of Durham.
October 2021	Flood	Durham	-	Stone Bridge Road was closed between Brown Road and Shady Glen Road near East Durham due to flooding.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	Trees and wires were downed in the Town of Durham.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Durham	-	Trees and wires were downed on Route 67 in Durham.
June 2011	Hail	East Durham	-	Penny size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in East Durham.
August 2011	Flood	Durham	-	Route 145 was closed due to flooding from Route 20 in Schoharie County through southwestern Albany County to Route 23 in Greene County. Much of Route 145 runs along the Catskill Creek.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	Trees and wires were blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	Trees down
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Ford's Store	under 500 feet	2001
L.E. Cleveland House	under 500 feet	2001
Oak Hill Historic District	under 500 feet	2017
A. T. House	0.1 miles	2006
Charles Pierce House	0.1 miles	2001
St. Paul's Lutheran Church	0.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001389 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.
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.