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Spear and Company Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Spear Building is an 85,000-square-foot, four-story building that was a hat factory and wax novelty manufacturer in its 1920s heyday. It is located at 94-15 100th Street, between 94th and 95th Avenues one block from in the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens, New York City, and is best known as the location of the Worksman Cycles Factory, a manufacturer of iconic pushcarts, tricycles and heavy duty bicycles.”
Wikipedia article Spear and Company Factory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 94-15 100th St., Ozone Park, 11416
When was it listed? November 2017
Category. building
Borough. Queens
National Register reference number. 100001807 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1889 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Spear and Company Factory, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Spear and Company Factory, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

2,899 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,899 fires within 5 miles of Spear and Company Factory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,542 acres in total. 162 started naturally. 145 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	2152
Natural	162
Arson/incendiarism	145
Smoking	139
Misuse of fire by a minor	100
Debris and open burning	73
Equipment and vehicle use	70
Recreation and ceremony	39
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Fireworks	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2005	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
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	FOUNTAIN1

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1947 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Jamaica 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
Wyckoff-Snediker Family Cemetery	0.6 miles	2001
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church	0.6 miles	2001
Public School 66	0.6 miles	2003
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish	0.8 miles	2007
Richmond Hill Historic District	1.0 miles	2019
Forest Park Carousel	1.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001807 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 108 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.