Thomas Strong House

Built in 1695 (American colonial architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Thomas Strong House is a historic home located at Wainscott in Suffolk County, New York. It is a L-shaped, gable-roofed, cedar shingle clad structure originally built about 1695 and continually lived in by eight generations of Thomas Strong's descendants.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Strong House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1695, American colonial architecture.

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. Strong, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 100 Wainscott Hollow Rd., Wainscott, 11975
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Town. East Hampton town
When was it built? 1695
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 04001451 - 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

83 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Strong House between 2000 and 2019, burning about 28 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	57
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Thomas Strong House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Recorded
Bistrain Gravel Corporation Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bistrian Gravel Corp Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Digate Concrete Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Digate Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk 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.

1903 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1946 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East 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
Wainscott Windmill	0.8 miles	1978
Briar Patch Road Historic District	1.3 miles	1988
Sagaponack Historic District	1.6 miles	2000
Jericho Historic District	2.1 miles	1988
Jones Road Historic District	2.1 miles	1988
Nathaniel Rogers House	2.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001451 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.