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Sidney White House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Sidney White House is a historic home located at Preston Hollow in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1841 and consists of a main block with addition.”

Wikipedia article Sidney White House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany 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

  • Listed as. White, Sidney, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 483 Travis Hill Rd., Preson Hollow, 12469
  • When was it listed? December 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Rensselaerville town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 05001394 - 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

79 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Sidney White House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,044 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,044 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sidney White House between 1860 and 1975: 796 Animalia, 228 Plantae, 10 Protozoa, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Arnett Jr., R. H. (Ross H.), Charles G. Oliver and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Sorex fumeus, not of this specimenSorex fumeus fumeus G.M.Miller, 18951860William J. Hamilton Jr.Rensselaerville
A photograph of the species Sphaerotheca pannosa, not of this specimenSphaerotheca pannosa (Wallr.) Lév.1907L.B. Swartout
A photograph of the species Frommeella tormentillae, not of this specimenFrommeella tormentillae (Fuckel) Cummins & Y.Hirats.1919H. D. House
A photograph of the species Marmota monax, not of this specimenMarmota monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1923not recordedWesterlo Twp. Westerlo.
A photograph of the species Phanogomphus spicatus, not of this specimenPhanogomphus spicatus (Hagen, 1854)1924H. E. MurphyRensselaerville
A photograph of the species Bombus Latreille, not of this specimenBombus Latreille, 18021925[Not Stated]Rensselaerville
A photograph of the species Bombus perplexus, not of this specimenBombus perplexus Cresson, 18631925[Not Stated]Rensselaerville
A photograph of the species Bombus ternarius, not of this specimenBombus ternarius Say, 18371925[Not Stated]Rensselaerville
A photograph of the species Vulpes vulpes, not of this specimenVulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)1931not recordedWesterlo Twp. Westerlo.
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1932W. H. WiegmannWesterlo
A photograph of the species Buellia spuria, not of this specimenBuellia spuria (Schaer.) Anzi1932W. H. WiegmannWesterlo
A photograph of the species Hypnum cupressiforme, not of this specimenHypnum cupressiforme var. filiforme Brid.1933W. H. WiegmannWesterlo

All 1,044 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Potter Hollow District No. 19 School3.3 miles2012
Rensselaerville Historic District4.6 miles1983
Conkling-Boardman-Eldridge Farm5.6 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001394 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany CountyAll 234 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.