Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex

Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Dominic Motherhouse Complex, is a historic convent complex and national historic district at 555 Albany Avenue in North Amityville, Suffolk County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2007 · category: District · built in 1853.

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 5 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. 555 Albany Ave., North Amityville, 11701
When was it listed? June 2007
Category. district
Town. Babylon town
When was it built? 1853
National Register reference number. 07000625 - 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

1901 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

1,242 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,242 fires within 5 miles of Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 501 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 84 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	898
Arson/incendiarism	84
Natural	78
Smoking	66
Debris and open burning	33
Railroad operations and maintenance	31
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5

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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1901 USGS Babylon quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Babylon quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1919 USGS Babylon quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000

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
Frank W. Smith House	2.0 miles	2010
Long Island National Cemetery	3.5 miles	2016
Babylon Town Hall	4.1 miles	2005
Babylon Library, The	4.1 miles	2015
Nathaniel Conklin House	4.2 miles	1988
M. Baylis House	5.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000625 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.