Photograph of St. Luke's Episcopal Church — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Luke's Episcopal Church Complex

Built in 1870 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Luke's Episcopal Church is located in Beacon, New York, United States. The church complex of four buildings and a cemetery takes up a 12-acre (4.9 ha) parcel between Wolcott, Rector, Phillips and Union Streets.”
Wikipedia article St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Beacon, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1870, Gothic Revival, by Frederick Clarke Withers.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Wolcott Ave. & Rector St., Beacon, 12508
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. building
Town. Fishkill town
When was it built? 1870
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. Frederick Clarke Withers
National Register reference number. 08000517 - 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

594 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 594 fires within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,084 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 71 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	335
Arson/incendiarism	71
Smoking	48
Natural	48
Recreation and ceremony	27
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Debris and open burning	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	2

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
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church Complex: 37 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Iron. 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
Hustis Quarry	Titanium	Occurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Chateaugay Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1871

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beacon, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Hail	Beacon	$10,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Beacon	$5,000	no account filed
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Beacon	$2,000	A large tree was downed on wires near the corner of High Street and Beekman Street in the City of Beacon, causing road closures.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Beacon	-	Law enforcement personnel reported that trees were down throughout Beacon.
May 2002	Hail	Beacon	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Beacon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Howland Library	0.2 miles	1973
Beacon Engine Company No. 1 Firehouse	0.3 miles	2004
Madam Catharyna Brett Homestead	0.3 miles	1976
Mount Beacon Incline Railway and Power House	0.7 miles	1982
Lower Main Street Historic District	0.8 miles	1988
Tioronda Estate-Craig House Historic District	0.9 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000517 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.