Brecknock Hall

Built in 1857 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Brecknock Hall is a historic home located at Stirling in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1857 and is a square cut ashlar stone residence in the Italianate style.”
Wikipedia article Brecknock Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1857, Italianate architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. North Rd. near Manhassett Ave., Stirling/Town of Southold, 11944
When was it listed? April 2005
Category. building
Town. Southold town
When was it built? 1857
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 05000331 - 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

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Brecknock Hall between 2000 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined	42
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven 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
Greenport Village Historic District	0.8 miles	1984
Charles and Anna Bates House	0.8 miles	2017
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue	1.1 miles	2006
Greenport Railroad Station	1.2 miles	1989
East Marion Main Road Historic District	1.4 miles	2019
Shelter Island Heights Historic District	2.2 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000331 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.