Rogues Harbor Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Rogues' Harbor Inn, formerly known as the Elm Grove Inn and Central Exchange Hotel, is a historic inn and tavern located in Lansing, New York. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 and is located on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, approximately eight miles from Ithaca.”
Wikipedia article Rogues' Harbor Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2079 E. Shore Dr., Lansing, 14882
When was it listed? August 2009
Category. building
Town. Lansing town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 09000657 - 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

51 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Rogues Harbor Inn between 2002 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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	27
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Natural	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
5 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Rogues Harbor Inn: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cayuga Mine and Mill	Halite	Past Producer	Halite
Cayuga Crushed Stone Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Twin Bridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Twin Bridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cargill, Inc., Div. of Cayuga Rock	Salt	Plant
Cayuga Rock Salt Core	Salt	Prospect
Joe Farkas No.1 Well	Salt	Past Producer
Remington Salt Well	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lansing, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Flash Flood	Lansing	$12,000	no account filed
October 2021	Flash Flood	South Lansing	$5,000	Flooding of properties along Triphammer Road near Asbury Road was reported by social media.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lansing	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Small hail was also reported with these storms.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lansing	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lansing	$4,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lansing	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the road.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lansing	-	Thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.

Every storm recorded in Tompkins 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.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
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
Cayuga Preventorium	2.9 miles	2021
West Dryden Methodist Episcopal Church	4.9 miles	1991
Biggs Memorial Hospital Cottage	5.1 miles	2020
Hayt's Chapel and Schoolhouse	5.3 miles	2005
Cascadilla School Boathouse	5.5 miles	1991
Stewart Park	5.6 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000657 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tompkins County	All 64 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.
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.