Built in 1947. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is a museum located on the residential Lighthouse Hill in Egbertville, Staten Island, New York City. It is home to one of the United States' most extensive collections of Himalayan artifacts.”
Wikipedia article Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1947.
National Register reference number.09000379- 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
1898 to 1986
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18981986
Fires near this property
2,463 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,463 fires within 5 miles of Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,086 acres in total. 243 started naturally. 186 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
1765
Natural
243
Arson/incendiarism
186
Smoking
92
Equipment and vehicle use
56
Debris and open burning
46
Recreation and ceremony
23
Fireworks
21
Misuse of fire by a minor
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Other causes
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art: 4 past producers, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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