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One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
First Presbyterian Church of Lewiston and Lewiston Village Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 505 Cayuga St., Outerlot 17 Cayuga & Outerlot 18 Seneca, Lewiston, 14092
- When was it listed? June 2019
- Category. building
- Town. Lewiston town
- National Register reference number. 100004012 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
347 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 347 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Lewiston and Lewiston Village Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 54 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 | 191 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 54 |
| Natural | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 27 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Lewiston and Lewiston Village Cemetery: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Graphite, Abrasive, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKW Alloys/ Niagara Falls, N.Y. | Iron, Manganese, Graphite | Producer | ||
| Special Abrasives/Niagara Falls, Ny | Abrasive | Unknown | ||
| Union Carbide/ Niagara Falls, N.Y. | Chromium, Graphite | Unknown |
Storms near this property
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy snow, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $55,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | Lewiston | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Lewiston | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $12,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $8,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $5,000 | A cold front crossed the area accompanied by severe thunderstorms. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Scattered power outages were reported throughout the county. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lewiston | $5,000 | 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.
- 1894 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1896 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1900 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1901 USGS Niagara Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1950 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Lewiston quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Niagara Falls 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frontier House | 0.2 miles | 1974 |
| Schoellkopf Hall | 3.6 miles | 2023 | |
 | Deveaux School Historic District | 3.6 miles | 1974 |
| Niagara Power Project Historic District | 4.0 miles | 2017 | |
 | U.S. Customhouse | 4.3 miles | 1973 |
| Main Street Historic District | 4.5 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004012 in Record Group 79. |
| Niagara County | All 99 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.