Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“Innisfree Garden is a Chinese style-influenced public garden in Millbrook, New York, United States. It was developed between 1930 and 1960 as the private garden of Walter and Marion Beck, inspired by scroll paintings of the 8th-century Chinese poet and painter Wang Wei.”
Wikipedia article Innisfree Garden, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2019 · category: District · built in 1930.
National Register reference number. 100004333 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1899 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18991993
Fires near this property
181 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Innisfree
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 19 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
97
Debris and open burning
34
Arson/incendiarism
19
Natural
12
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Other causes
1
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
21 workings within 5 miles of Innisfree: 17 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone. 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
Millbrook, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 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.
One of the most devastating severe weather outbreaks to hit eastern New York this century occurred on the morning of July 15th. A long lived squall line known as a derecho crossed eastern New York during the early morning hours. Extensive tree damage occurred across the area with the Adirondacks being the hardest hit. Damage estimates from the Department of Environmental Conservation indicated that some 900,000 acres of forest were damaged with 125,000 acres of timber in the Adirondack Park sustaining moderate to severe damage. The timber damage is estimated at 1 billion board feet with an estimated value of $204 million. Five deaths and eleven injuries occurred with this event. Most of the deaths and injuries were a result of trees falling on campers in the Adirondacks. Thirty-one hikers and campers had to be removed from the Adirondacks by helicopter as their path out of the woods was blocked. Extensive power outages occurred across eastern New York with 230,000 customers left without power. Livestock deaths were also reported with over 100 sheep, cattle or hogs killed. Times used during this event were estimated due to the very rapid storm movement which exceeded 60 miles an hour. (F43O,M39O,F60O,F10O,F72V)
A stationary front which was draped across northern Pennsylvania and southeast New York on the 13th of August was responsible for severe thunderstorms which occurred across parts of eastern New York early that morning and during the afternoon. The first round of thunderstorms occurred during the early morning hours of the 13th of August accompanied by a tremendous number of cloud to ground lightning strikes. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in Guilderland and Troy. Later that day a second round of thunderstorms downed trees and powerlines across eastern parts of Ulster County and northern parts of Dutchess County.
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.
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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