Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount

Built in 1891 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden Western Orthodox church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891 by George Mead, his son, William Mead and his son's wife, Anna Della Mead. The church is a parish of the Old Calendarist Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1891, Gothic Revival.

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.
Address. Mead's Mountain Rd., Woodstock, 12498
When was it listed? December 2005
Category. building
Town. Woodstock town
When was it built? 1891
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 05001385 - 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

188 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount between 1993 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 15 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	90
Smoking	24
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Duffy's Pit	Clay	Producer
Marbletown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sawyer Shale Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodstock, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
December 2023	Flood	Woodstock	$10,000	Numerous county and town roads were closed in the Town of Woodstock.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$10,000	no account filed
July 2009	Lightning	Woodstock	$5,000	Trees and wires were reported down approximately 1 mile north of Woodstock due to lightning.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	Severe thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moved through the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York during the late afternoon hours of June 14th. Torrential rains accompanied the thunderstorms which resulted in flash flooding in parts of Dutchess and Ulster Counties. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in parts of Dutchess and Columbia Counties. Flash flooding occurred in the Town of Ulster where buildings were flooded with several feet of water and across parts of Dutchess County where three to four inches of rain fell in a two to three hour period.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines across parts of Ulster County leaving 250 customers without power on the evening of August 14th.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$2,000	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Woodstock	-	Nickel size hail was reported near Woodstock.
May 2018	Hail	Woodstock	-	Quarter sized hail lasted three to four minutes.
February 2016	Flood	Woodstock	-	Due to heavy rainfall and snow melt occurring over a frozen ground, flooding occurred in Woodstock at the intersection of Routes 212 and 375.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	A tree and wires were downed in Woodstock due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Woodstock due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Woodstock	-	Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Woodstock. Route 212 and Wittenberg Road were closed due to high water.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees were reported down on Pine Grove Street in Woodstock as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	A tree was reported down blocking traffic on Route 375 in Woodstock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees and powerlines were reported down in Woodstock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Numerous trees and wires were reported down near Woodstock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007	Hail	Woodstock	-	Nickel size hail was reported near Woodstock.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Woodstock.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees blown down.
August 1997	Hail	Woodstock	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Woodstock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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.

1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Plattekill quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Byrdcliffe Historic District	1.0 miles	1979
George W. Bellows House	1.1 miles	2018
Judge Jonathan Hasbrouck House	1.3 miles	2013
Woodstock Artists Association	1.5 miles	2022
National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center	2.0 miles	1992
Maverick Concert Hall	3.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001385 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.