East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

“East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Springville in Erie County, New York. It is a 5.5-acre (22,000 m2) district encompassing 26 contributing structures, that primarily serve commercial functions.”
Wikipedia article East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. East Main--Mechanic Streets Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Approx. jct. of East Main and Mechanic Sts., Springville, 14141
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. district
Town. Concord town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01001506 - 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.

Then and now

1925 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District, surveyed 1925

Fires near this property

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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	30
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	THOMAS CORNERS FIRE
5 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Erie 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 East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Springville Well	Salt	Past Producer
Hagerer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
John L. Beny Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
John L. Beny Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$15,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$15,000	no account filed
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$10,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$10,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$10,000	no account filed
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$8,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1999	Hail	Springville	$5,000	no account filed
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$2,000	A tree fell on wires in Springville.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$1,000	A tree was downed on powerlines.
October 2024	Hail	Springville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1925 USGS Springville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1954 USGS Springville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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-Springville	under 500 feet	1989
Citizens National Bank	under 500 feet	1996
Fiddlers Green Historic District	under 500 feet	2018
Baptist Church of Springville, The	0.2 miles	2017
West End Historic District	0.2 miles	2018
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad Station	0.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001506 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.