Tuckahoe High School

Built in 1930 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Tuckahoe High School is a historic high school located in Eastchester, New York. It was built in 1930-31, and is a three-story brick building with Aztec-inspired cast stone trim in the Art Deco style.”
Wikipedia article Tuckahoe High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1930, Art Deco architecture.

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.
Address. 65 Siwanoy Blvd., Eastchester, 10709
When was it listed? February 2010
Category. building
Town. Eastchester town
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 10000045 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Tuckahoe High School, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Tuckahoe High School, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

939 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 939 fires within 5 miles of Tuckahoe High School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 572 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 95 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	594
Arson/incendiarism	95
Smoking	87
Natural	60
Recreation and ceremony	45
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Debris and open burning	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Other causes	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5

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
9 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000

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
Bronxville Womens' Club	0.7 miles	2007
Masterton-Dusenberry House	0.8 miles	1980
Marble Schoolhouse	0.9 miles	2005
US Post Office-Bronxville	1.1 miles	1988
Thomas Paine Cottage	1.3 miles	1972
Eleazer Hart House	1.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000045 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.