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Photograph of Kenyon Residences
Photograph by ErixS, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kenyon Residences

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Kenyon Residences, also known as Twin Sisters, is a pair of historic home and located at Mt. They are a pair of Greek Revival style 2-story, wood-frame dwellings.”

Wikipedia article Kenyon Residences, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2004 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 60 and 62 Main St., Mt. Vision, 13810
  • When was it listed? February 2004
  • Category. building
  • Town. Laurens town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04000093 - 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Kenyon Residences between 1993 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 July 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

9 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
Bassett Family Houseunder 500 feet2004
House at 120 Balcom Road4.1 miles2024
Old Hartwick Village Cemetery4.9 miles2013
Hartwick Historic District5.8 miles2013
Lunn-Musser Octagon Barn6.0 miles1984
Joseph Peck House6.4 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000093 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego CountyAll 79 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.