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Photograph of Galli-Curci Theatre
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Galli-Curci Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Galli-Curci Theatre is located on Main Street in Margaretville, New York, United States. It is a brick building erected in the 1920s, now primarily used as a store, although some of the original theater remains.”

Wikipedia article Galli-Curci Theatre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2006 · 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. Galli--Curci Theatre - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 801 Main St., Margaretville, 12455
  • When was it listed? April 2006
  • Category. building
  • Town. Middletown town
  • National Register reference number. 06000254 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Galli-Curci Theatre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning16
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2

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
31 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2008Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2000Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Galli-Curci Theatre: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Margaretville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2020Flash FloodMargaretville$25,000Multiple roads were flooded throughout the village. The East Branch Delaware was flooded and rising rapidly.
October 2021Flash FloodMargaretville$10,000Numerous roads were flooded in and around Margaretville.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMargaretville$10,000A thunderstorm briefly reached severe levels across southeastern sections of the county as wind damage was produced. Trees and wires were downed in Margaretville around 8:05 pm EDT.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMargaretville$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto a roadway.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMargaretville-Trees were blow down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMargaretville-Law enforcement officers reported several trees down in Margaretville. 2 trees were also reported down just east of Delhi.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMargaretville-Trees downed.
December 2006HailMargaretville-no account filed
May 2004HailMargaretville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000254 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.