Pauline Felix House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Pauline Felix House is a historic home located at Long Beach in Nassau County, New York. It was built in 1909 and is a Italian Renaissance-style residence with a stucco exterior and a clay tile hipped roof.”
Wikipedia article Pauline Felix House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2005 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Felix, Pauline, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 151 W. Penn St., Long Beach, 11561
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. building
Town. Hempstead town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000090 - 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

293 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Pauline Felix House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 17 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	203
Arson/incendiarism	22
Smoking	21
Natural	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pauline Felix House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Deershead	Wollastonite, Garnet	Occurrence	Wollastonite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Beach, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 rip current. The reports record 1 death and 5 injuries. 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
August 2005	Rip Current	Long Beach	1 killed	A 16 year old boy was killed as he has dragged away from the beach by a strong rip current.
July 2016	Lightning	Long Beach	5 hurt	Five people were struck by lightning near National Boulevard and Ocean Beach Park in Long Beach.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Beach	-	Wires down on Clark Street.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Beach	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Long Beach	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Long Beach	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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
Samuel Vaisberg House	0.1 miles	2005
House at 226 West Penn Street	0.1 miles	2008
Cobble Villa	0.5 miles	2015
Barkin House	0.6 miles	2015
Granada Towers	0.6 miles	1984
US Post Office-Long Beach	0.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000090 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.
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.