Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Weekes Estate, and the Scully Estate, is a historic estate located at Islip in Suffolk County, New York. The mansion was built in 1917 in the French Provincial style for Lousine Peters and her husband Harold H.”
Wikipedia article Wereholme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06001208- 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
732 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 732 fires within 5 miles of Wereholme
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 200 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
426
Arson/incendiarism
200
Natural
46
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Debris and open burning
15
Smoking
14
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Wereholme: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Islip, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash 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.
Survey team confirmed an EF0 tornado in East Islip, NY, a narrow tornado of 50 yard width likely touched down at the southwestern end of Hollins Lane, and then continued northeast over Brushwood Court, Bayview Avenue, and Josephine Lane, and then finally over Kay Court, before lifting over the John F. Kennedy Elementary School sport fields. A few dozen large oak, maple, and pine trees were uprooted and laying in east or northeast direction. Several trees were also snapped at the trunk or had large branches sheared off along this path. In addition, minor roof and siding damage was observed for several houses, as well as leaf splater on south and east sides of several houses. This tornadic circulation was likely on the northwest side of a 400 yd. swath of 65 to 75 mph west to southwest straight line winds causing isolated large trees to be uprooted and several large limbs broken.||As mentioned, the tornado likely lifted over the John F. Kennedy Elementary School sport fields, becoming a funnel cloud. This funnel cloud may have briefly touched down as a weak tornado in the Frog Lane and Jade Street area of Oakdale, resulting in a very large, but partially rotted oak tree to topple onto and destroy a home. The funnel cloud was videotaped by the public, looking southwest from the Old Navy Department store on Johnson Avenue (just north of Sunrise Highway), but no further damage was noted with this storm.||Based on radar velocity signatures and damage orientation in relation to the general northeast motion of the parent storm, this was determined to be tornado damage, with degree of damage indicating EF0 damage.
Road closure with major flooding on Sunrise Highway between West of Route 111 to and through Heckshire State Parkway with multiple reports of persons stranded in vehicles with several local fire departments performing water rescues. 5.23 inches of rain in 2 hours.
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.
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.
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.
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