Shelburne Playhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Shelburne Playhouse is a historic theatre located at Ferndale in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1922 as part of a small resort known as the Shelburne Hotel and used as the hotel social hall.”
Wikipedia article Shelburne Playhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan 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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Upper Ferndale Rd., Ferndale, 12754
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. building
Town. Liberty town
National Register reference number. 04000284 - 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

172 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Shelburne Playhouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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	87
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	22
Other causes	9
Natural	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2014	Smoking	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferndale, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2024: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferndale	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferndale	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on NY 17 Eastbound.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Ferndale School	under 500 feet	2005
Manion's General Store	0.2 miles	2004
Munson Diner	1.4 miles	2006
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church	1.6 miles	1997
Town and Country Building	1.6 miles	2004
Liberty Downtown Historic District	1.7 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 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.
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.