David Rayfiel House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“David Rayfiel House, also known as The Sacandaga Glass House or "Shelter for David Rayfiel," is a historic home located at Day in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1958 on the southern banks of Great Sacandaga Lake in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.”
Wikipedia article David Rayfiel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Rayfiel, David, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1266 Kathan Rd., Day, 12835
When was it listed? November 2009
Category. building
Town. Day town
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 09000910 - 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

1903 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering David Rayfiel House, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering David Rayfiel House, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of David Rayfiel House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 4 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	28
Natural	19
Debris and open burning	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
8 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WAITE MOUNTAIN FIRE
4 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of David Rayfiel House: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Granite, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Graphite. 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
Overlook Quarry	Feldspar	Occurrence	1922
Sacandaga Graphite Co	Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	1906, 1918, 1925
Sacandaga Graphite Co.Mine	Graphite	Past Producer
Unnamed Occurrence	Granite	Occurrence	1922, 1975

Every working recorded in Saratoga 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.

1903 USGS Luzerne quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Lake Luzerne quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Conklingville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

4 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
Hadley Parabolic Bridge	5.0 miles	1977
Hadley Mountain Fire Observation Station	5.0 miles	2001
Hadley Mountain Fire Observation Station	5.4 miles	2001
International Paper Administration Building and Time Office	7.3 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000910 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 83 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.