Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse, Brentwood

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 1725 Brentwood Rd., Brentwood, 11717
When was it listed? May 2018
Category. district
Town. Islip town
National Register reference number. 100002388 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1,465 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,465 fires within 5 miles of Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse, Brentwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 950 acres in total. 120 started naturally. 406 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	745
Arson/incendiarism	406
Natural	120
Smoking	81
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Debris and open burning	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
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 2018	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse, Brentwood: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Nassau Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nassau Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Bay Shore Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Express Way Aggregates, Nc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kings Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Split Rock Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brentwood, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brentwood	$10,000	Large tree down into a home on Alkier Street.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Brentwood	$3,000	Trees down blocking the Long Island Expressway Service Road near Route 111.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brentwood	-	Large tree limbs and branches down on Oakland Street.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Brentwood	-	Several roads were closed due to flooding in the towns of Lake Grove, Hauppauge, Lake Ronkonkoma and Kings Park.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1904 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1919 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Central Islip quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Central Islip quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Central Islip quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Modern Times School	0.7 miles	1994
Coltrane House	2.3 miles	2007
First Congregational Church of Bay Shore	3.1 miles	2002
Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse	3.2 miles	2001
Bay Shore Methodist Episcopal Church	3.3 miles	2001
US Post Office-Bay Shore	3.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002388 in Record Group 79.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.
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.