Pulver-Bird, House

Built in 1839 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Pulver-Bird House is a historic home located at Stanford in Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1839 and has a two-story center block with flanking one-story wings in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Pulver-Bird House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1839, Greek Revival architecture.

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.
Listed as. Pulver--Bird, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 983 Hunns Lake Rd., Stanford, 12581
When was it listed? July 2008
Category. building
Town. Stanford town
When was it built? 1839
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08000700 - 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

1899 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pulver-Bird, House, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Pulver-Bird, House, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pulver-Bird, House between 1993 and 2019, burning about 53 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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	25
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
1 July 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pulver-Bird, House: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Judge Bockee-Ward Bryant Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Judge Bockee-Ward Bryant Mine	Lead, Copper, Iron, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Judge Bockee-Ward Bryant Pb Mine	Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Liberia Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Morgan Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Siderite
Morgan Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Morgan Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Siderite
Smithfield Mine	Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess 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.

1899 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Pine Plains quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Pine Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Attlebury Schoolhouse	1.8 miles	2016
Wethersfield	2.0 miles	2021
Winans-Huntting House	2.5 miles	2017
Smithfield Presbyterian Church	2.5 miles	2012
Bangall Post Office	4.1 miles	2014
Graham-Brush Log House	4.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000700 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.