C. Burton Hotel

Built in 1851 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Burton Hotel, also known as the Sycamore House, is located on NY 55 a mile west of Grahamsville, New York, United States. It is a wooden Greek Revival structure dating to 1851.”
Wikipedia article C. Burton Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1851, Greek Revival 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 450 Main St., Grahamsville, 12740
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. building
Town. Neversink town
When was it built? 1851
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000171 - 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of C. Burton Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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	55
Debris and open burning	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grahamsville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$15,000	A thunderstorm strengthened to severe levels as it moved across southern sections of the county during the early to mid morning hours. Trees were downed in and around Grahamsville around 840 am EDT. Just after 915 am, additional trees and wires were toppled in Lumberland township.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Grahamsville	$10,000	Flash flooding was surging water across a road and into the basement of a house near Main Street and River Road.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$10,000	A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Sullivan County during the afternoon. A 64 mph wind gust was recorded in Grahamsville at 4:45 pm and trees were knocked down in Liberty at 5:15 pm EDT.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$10,000	A cluster of severe thunderstorms moving across the county blew down trees and wires in Grahamsville at 8:33 pm EDT where a 61 mph wind gust was recorded by a skywarn spotter. In Monticello at around 9:00 pm EDT additional large trees were toppled.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$9,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, which landed on live wires and caught fire.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$1,000	A tree was blown down.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	$500	no account filed
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	-	A tree was blown down.
July 2001	Hail	Grahamsville	-	SKYWARN storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2000	Hail	Grahamsville	-	Large hail accumulated 1 inch deep 5 miles north of Grahamsville. Also trees and wires were down along with some structural damage from thunderstorm winds.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Grahamsville	-	Trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	Grahamsville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Grahamsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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 Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
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
Greenfield Preparative Meeting House	0.2 miles	2010
Grahamsville Historic District	0.8 miles	1979
Levitz Family Farm	4.0 miles	2002
Hasbrouck Stone House	5.5 miles	2019
Woodbourne Reformed Church Complex	6.8 miles	2003
Center Theatre	7.0 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000171 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.