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Nikola Tesla's Laboratory
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 56 NY 25A, Shoreham, 11786
- When was it listed? July 2018
- Category. building
- Town. Brookhaven town
- Architect. Stanford White
- National Register reference number. 100002744 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
467 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 467 fires within 5 miles of Nikola Tesla's Laboratory between 2000 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 105 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 | 292 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 105 |
| Smoking | 25 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SAMUEL'S FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nikola Tesla's Laboratory: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookhaven Aggregates Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Brookhaven Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shoreham, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Lightning | Shoreham | 1 hurt | Lightning struck a 29-year-old woman while she was sitting with her family at Shoreham Town Beach. Her husband successfully performed CPR and revived her. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shoreham | $6,000 | Large trees were reported down across the intersection of Dartmouth and Valentine Roads. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Shoreham | - | Quarter size hail was reported by a NWS employee. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Shoreham | - | Penny size hail was reported by a NWS employee. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Shoreham | - | Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Shoreham | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Middle Island quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Middle Island quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Middle Island quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Josiah Woodhull House | 1.7 miles | 2011 |
| Noah Hallock House | 2.4 miles | 2013 | |
 | Benjamin King Woodhull House | 2.6 miles | 2008 |
 | Tuthill-Lapham House | 2.7 miles | 2009 |
 | Wading River Radio Station | 3.3 miles | 2018 |
 | Miller Place Historic District | 5.3 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002744 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| 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.