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Benjamin Franklin Gates House

Built in 1831 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1918.

From the record

“The Benjamin Franklin Gates House is an historic home and farm complex located on Lee Road in Barre, New York, United States. It is centered on a Greek Revival house built in the 1830s using the unusual stacked-plank structural system.”

Wikipedia article Benjamin Franklin Gates House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Orleans County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1831, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Gates, Benjamin Franklin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 13079 W. Lee Rd., Albion, 48841
  • When was it listed? June 2009
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1831
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 09000378 - 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.

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Flash FloodAlbion$200,000no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodAlbion$50,000no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodAlbion$50,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAlbion$25,000no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodAlbion$25,000no account filed
September 1998HailAlbion$20,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAlbion$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds..
August 2016Thunderstorm WindAlbion$15,000Law enforcement report trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 1998Flash FloodAlbion$15,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000A tree was downed onto a trailer.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Crimson Heights Road.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down on Zig Zag Road.
June 2008HailAlbion$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailAlbion$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAlbion$3,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodAlbion$1,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodAlbion$1,000no account filed
August 2011HailAlbion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orleans 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000378 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orleans CountyAll 30 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.
  • 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.