Julius and Harriet Bull House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Julius and Harriet Bull House, also known as Ferry Farm, is a historic home located at Seneca Falls in Seneca County, New York. The house is a four bay wide, two story cobblestone house.”
Wikipedia article Julius and Harriet Bull House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 2007 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bull, Julius and Harriet, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2534 Lower Lake Rd., Seneca Falls, 13148
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS
Town. Seneca Falls town
National Register reference number. 07000869 - 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

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Julius and Harriet Bull House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Julius and Harriet Bull House: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Salt. 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
Seneca Falls Well No.12	Salt	Past Producer
Seneca Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Seneca Quarry and Plant	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cayuga Junction Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Cross Roads Station Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Hibiscus Point Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca 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.

1902 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn 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
Women's Rights National Historical Park	1.9 miles	1980
Fourth Ward School	2.0 miles	1986
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House	2.0 miles	1966
Amelia Bloomer House	2.0 miles	1980
US Post Office-Seneca Falls	2.4 miles	1989
Seneca Knitting Mill	2.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000869 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca County	All 40 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.