Built in 1903 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“The Masonic Temple - Newport Lodge No. 445 F. & A.M. is a historic building located in Newport in Herkimer County, New York. Built in 1903 as a meeting hall for a local Masonic Lodge, the building is a five-bay-wide by three-bay-deep wood-frame building, with a rectangular main block and square shaped rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Masonic Temple - Newport Lodge No. 445 F. & A.M., CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 74 National Register listings published here for Herkimer County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1903, Neoclassical architecture.
National Register reference number.09001228- 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
37 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Temple-Newport Lodge No. 445 F. & A.M.
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 4 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
20
Arson/incendiarism
5
Natural
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Other causes
3
Smoking
1
Debris and open burning
1
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 Masonic Temple-Newport Lodge No. 445 F. & A.M.: 4 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Newport, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 4 flood, 3 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.
Heavy rainfall resulted in minor urban flooding of Steuben Road, and Strumlock Road in Newport. In addition, ponding of water was also reported on a few roads near Frankfort.
Warm temperatures led to snowmelt, which combined with moderate rainfall to create flooding in portions of southern Herkimer county during the early morning hours of Thursday March 15th.|Several roads and bridges were closed due to flooding, including Farrington Road near Newport, State Route 51 in the Ilion Gorge, and State Route 167 between Lyon Road and Dolgeville.
Minor flooding occurred along the Mohawk River at Delta Dam, when it went above its flood stage of 551.5 feet at 9 PM EST on Thursday, November 16th. The river crested at 552.35 feet at 10:30 AM EST on Friday, November 17th, before falling back below flood stage at 8:23 PM EST on Saturday November 18th.
Two mudslides closed Route 28 between Newport and Middleville around 7 PM EST on Thursday November 16th. Additional flooding was reported by emergency management officials near Ilion.
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.
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.
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