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Luke Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

“Luke Brown House is a historic home located at Parishville in St. It was built in 1823 and is a 2-story, five-by-three-bay, side-gabled Federal-style residence constructed of red Potsdam Sandstone.”

Wikipedia article Luke Brown House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2003 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Brown, Luke, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 831 NY 72, Parishville, 13676
  • When was it listed? June 2003
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Red Potsdam Sandstone Resources Taken from Raquette River Quarries MPS
  • Town. Parishville town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000030 - 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

1908 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Luke Brown House, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Luke Brown House, surveyed 1908

Fires near this property

130 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Luke Brown House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Smoking5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Luke Brown House: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Talc-Soapstone, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown's School ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
St Regis Red Veined Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Clarkson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface
Potsdam Red Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Potsdam Sandstone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface
Bicknell Brothers S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elmer Randall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parishville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindParishville$10,000Trees and utility lines down across Clark Street.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindParishville$10,000Trees and power lines down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindParishville$10,000Trees and power lines downed by damaging winds.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gardner Cox House3.7 miles1986
Nathaniel Parmeter House4.3 miles2003
Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex4.7 miles2004
Potsdam State Normal School Campus4.7 miles2015
Potsdam State Normal School Campus4.8 miles2015
Clarkson-Knowles Cottage4.8 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000030 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 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.