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One of 47 National Register listings published here for Chenango County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Phillips-Manning House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Phillips--Manning House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 154 Nursery St., Coventry, 13778
- When was it listed? March 2017
- Category. building
- Town. Coventry town
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 100000754 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
57 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Phillips-Manning House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 17 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 July 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 May 1995 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Storms near this property
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coventry, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coventry | $25,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees on a large property, and a tree that fell onto a farmhouse roof cracked the wooden rafters. |
| June 2002 | Flood | Coventry | $10,000 | Heavy thunderstorm rains closed approximately 3 and a half miles of state route 235 from county route 30 (Long Hill Road) south to Davey Road. The road was undermined because of damage to the Wylie Brook culvert. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Coventry | $5,000 | The town supervisor reported that water was running across many roads throughout the town. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coventry | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked took down multiple trees and wires. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coventry | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree at 1836 State Route 235 near Park Place. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coventry | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Coventry | $2,000 | Roads were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coventry | $2,000 | Trees were blown down throughout the southern part of the county. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coventry | - | Trees down. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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 Coventry quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Brisben quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Brisben quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| District School 4 | 0.2 miles | 2004 | |
| District School 2 | 2.1 miles | 2004 | |
| Sannick Family Farm | 5.3 miles | 2007 | |
 | Greene Historic District | 6.8 miles | 1982 |
 | Clinton-Rosekrans Law Building | 6.8 miles | 1979 |
 | Loomis Family Farm | 7.5 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000754 in Record Group 79. |
| Chenango County | All 47 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.
- 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.