House at 520 Hostageh Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“House at 520 Hostageh Road, also known as Lyndhurst, is a historic seasonal cottage located at Rock City in Cattaraugus County, New York. It was built in 1903 and is a Swiss Cottage wood-frame dwelling with hipped roofs and an L-shaped front porch.”
Wikipedia article House at 520 Hostageh Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cattaraugus County · listed in 2009 · 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.
Address. 520 Hostageh Rd., Rock City, 14760
When was it listed? February 2009
Category. building
Town. Allegany town
National Register reference number. 09000038 - 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

95 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of House at 520 Hostageh Road between 1995 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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	38
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	10
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus 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 House at 520 Hostageh Road: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Allegany Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Allegany Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bosers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gulf Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gulf Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
William J. Lippert & Son S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus 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.

1898 USGS Olean quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1938 USGS Olean quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Olean quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Olean quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Olean 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
Olean School #10	4.4 miles	2010
Olean Public Library	4.6 miles	1985
US Post Office-Olean	4.6 miles	1989
Union and State Streets Historic District	4.7 miles	2015
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Complex	4.7 miles	2001
Olean Armory	4.8 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000038 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cattaraugus County	All 39 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.