Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex, or Felician Sisters Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent Chapel and Convent, is a historic Roman Catholic convent located at Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York. It is included in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.”
Wikipedia article Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie 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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 600 Doat St., Cheektowaga, 14211
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Town. Cheektowaga town
National Register reference number. 06000571 - 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.

Then and now

1894 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

1,073 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,073 fires within 5 miles of Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. 172 started naturally. 122 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	616
Natural	172
Arson/incendiarism	122
Smoking	89
Debris and open burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Limestone, General, Gold. 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	Recorded
Buffalo Perlite Plant	Perlite	Plant
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Williams Gold Refin./ Buffalo, N.Y.	Gold	Unknown
Eastern Limestone Operation	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hanna Furnace Corp/ Buffalo, N.Y.	Iron	Unknown
Republic Steel/ Buffalo, N.Y.	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheektowaga, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2006	Tornado (F1)	Cheektowaga	2 hurt, $250,000	no account filed
July 2011	Lightning	Cheektowaga	1 hurt, $500,000	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheektowaga	$55,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Cheektowaga	$50,000	no account filed
June 2005	Flash Flood	Cheektowaga	$25,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Cheektowaga	$21,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheektowaga	$10,000	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Cheektowaga	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Cheektowaga	$8,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheektowaga	$5,000	Thunderstorms during the early morning hours of the 26th produced damaging winds that downed trees and power lines.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheektowaga	$4,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheektowaga	$4,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheektowaga	$500	Tree downed near Harlem Road and Route 33.
April 2002	Hail	Cheektowaga	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1894 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1901 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1948 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Buffalo NE quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Buffalo NE quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Buffalo NE quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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
Beth Jacob Cemetery	1.1 miles	2025
Concordia Cemetery	1.1 miles	2008
Monarch Knitting Company Factory	1.1 miles	2019
Ahavas Achim Cemetery	1.2 miles	2025
Wollenberg Grain and Seed Elevator	1.4 miles	2003
Buffalo Public School #92-PS 92	1.4 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000571 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.