Aaron Copland House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Aaron Copland House, also known as Rock Hill or Copland House, is the former home of composer Aaron Copland for the last 30 years of his life, and now also a creative center for American music. Located on Washington Street in Cortlandt Manor, New York, United States, and built in the 1940s, the house and its garage were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and five years later, in 2008, they were designated a National Historic Landmark, the only one in the country connected to a figure from the world of classical music.”
Wikipedia article Aaron Copland House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Listed as. Copland, Aaron, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1538 Washington St., Cortlandt Manor, 10567
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
Town. Cortlandt town
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 03000245 - 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

522 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 522 fires within 5 miles of Aaron Copland House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 331 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 49 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	346
Smoking	51
Arson/incendiarism	49
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	18
Debris and open burning	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7

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 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Aaron Copland House: 18 past producers, 5 producers, 5 prospects, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Nelson Property Deposit	Corundum	Prospect
Peekskill Area	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Aluminum	Occurrence
Peekskill Area Prospect	Titanium, Aluminum, Iron	Prospect
Stony Point Mill	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Leardi Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tompkins Cove Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tompkins Cove Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-007	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Veterans Hospital Historic District	1.6 miles	2022
Croton North Railroad Station	2.3 miles	1987
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church Complex	2.4 miles	2006
Underhill-Acker House	2.5 miles	2017
Asbury United Methodist Church and Bethel Chapel and Cemetery	2.6 miles	2000
Old Croton Dam, Site of	2.6 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.