William Cauldwell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“William Cauldwell House is a historic home located at Noyack in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1892 for newspaper publisher William Cauldwell, and is a three-story, three bay wide building with a steeply pitched, side gabled roof, a two-story central dormer extending from the second through the third stories and a single story, wrap-around porch.”
Wikipedia article William Cauldwell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk 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 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Cauldwell, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 51 Peconic Ave., Noyac, 11963
When was it listed? May 2009
Category. building
Town. Southampton town
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 09000305 - 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 William Cauldwell House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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	57
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	1
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
2 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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.

1903 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1946 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East 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
John Steinbeck Cottage	3.4 miles	2025
Maycroft	3.5 miles	1995
Sag Harbor Village District	4.1 miles	1973
First Presbyterian Church	4.1 miles	1994
High House & Studio	4.5 miles	2025
Sag Harbor Village District (Boundary Increase)	4.5 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.