Built in 1957 (ranch-style house). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Alcoa Care-free Home is a historic home located at Brighton in Monroe County, New York. Goodman (1906-1992) and is one of 24 Alcoa Care-free Homes listed in their sales brochure of 1957 that were built for a demonstration project and the only one located New York State.”
Wikipedia article Alcoa Care-free Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1957, ranch-style house, by Charles M. Goodman.
National Register reference number.10000358- 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.
Fires near this property
1,709 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,709 fires within 5 miles of Alcoa Care-free Home
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,111 acres in total. 125 started naturally. 171 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
765
Smoking
432
Arson/incendiarism
171
Natural
125
Equipment and vehicle use
77
Debris and open burning
75
Misuse of fire by a minor
26
Power generation/transmission/distribution
24
Recreation and ceremony
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Alcoa Care-free Home: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 7 hail, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 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.
A car was stuck in a sinkhole along St. Paul Boulevard between Paxon Road and Wimbledon Road. There were widespread reports of standing water on roads from Greece to the western portions of Rochester.
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.
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.
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.
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