Simon Ritter Cobblestone Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Simon Ritter Cobblestone Farmhouse is a historic house located at Varick in Seneca County, New York. It is a late Federal / early Greek Revival style, cobblestone farmhouse with an overlay of Italianate detailing.”
Wikipedia article Simon Ritter Cobblestone Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Ritter, Simon, Cobblestone Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5102 NY Rt. 89, Varick, 14541
When was it listed? November 2008
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Varick town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08001081 - 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

46 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Simon Ritter Cobblestone Farmhouse between 2001 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Simon Ritter Cobblestone Farmhouse: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Aurora Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

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.

1902 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Romulus quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Romulus quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church	2.5 miles	1989
William Hoster House	4.4 miles	2002
David and Mary Kinne Farmstead	7.2 miles	2007
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library	7.6 miles	2018
Seneca County Courthouse Complex at Ovid	7.7 miles	1976
Jones, Hannah and George W. House	7.9 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001081 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.