Photograph of Parkside Whispering Pines — Photograph by LtPowers, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Parkside Whispering Pines, once known as Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course, is a miniature golf course and national historic district located at the hamlet of Sea Breeze in the Town of Irondequoit in Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1930 and is a rare surviving example of a miniature golf course that dates from the sport's first period of broad based popularity.”
Wikipedia article Parkside Whispering Pines, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2002 · category: District · built in 1930.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4083 Culver Rd., Sea Breeze, 14622
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. district
Town. Irondequoit town
When was it built? 1930
National Register reference number. 02001653 - 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

1,171 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,171 fires within 5 miles of Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course between 2000 and 2020, burning about 810 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 161 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	555
Smoking	237
Arson/incendiarism	161
Natural	74
Debris and open burning	57
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Recreation and ceremony	4

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 2020	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Smoking	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Smoking	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Dewitt Brothers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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.

1895 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1912 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1920 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1931 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000
1935 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1952 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rochester East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Rochester 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
United Congregational Church of Irondequoit	2.9 miles	2002
Norton Village Historic District	3.0 miles	2010
Fernwood Park Historic District	3.4 miles	2010
House at 288 Wimbledon Road	3.6 miles	2015
Wimbledon Road Historic District	3.6 miles	2024
Genesee Lighthouse	3.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001653 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.