Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“The Fine Arts and Flower Building, Altamont Fairground, also known as Exhibition Hall, was built in 1896 as part of the Altamont Fairgrounds in Village of Altamont, New York, near Albany.”
Wikipedia article Fine Arts and Flower Building, Altamont Fairground, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03001518- 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
129 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Fine Arts and Flower Building Altamont Fairground
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 24 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
73
Arson/incendiarism
24
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Debris and open burning
5
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,168 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fine Arts and Flower Building Altamont Fairground between 1811 and 1975: 1,278 Animalia, 479 Fungi, 381 Plantae, 11 Protozoa, 9 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller, A. Sherf and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Fine Arts and Flower Building Altamont Fairground: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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