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Photograph of Minerva and Daniel DeLand House
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Minerva and Daniel DeLand House

Built in 1856 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Minerva and Daniel DeLand House was built in 1856 in the village of Fairport, New York, as a home for Minerva and Daniel DeLand. It is located at 185 North Main Street at the intersection of North Main street and Whitney Road.”

Wikipedia article Minerva and Daniel DeLand House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1856, Italianate architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. DeLand, Minerva and Daniel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 185 North Main St., Fairport, 14605
  • When was it listed? January 2020
  • Category. building
  • City. Rochester city
  • When was it built? 1856
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 100004913 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2,482 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,482 fires within 5 miles of Minerva and Daniel DeLand House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,636 acres in total. 163 started naturally. 279 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/undetermined1172
Smoking568
Arson/incendiarism279
Natural163
Equipment and vehicle use104
Debris and open burning96
Misuse of fire by a minor48
Power generation/transmission/distribution29
Recreation and ceremony18
Railroad operations and maintenance5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Minerva and Daniel DeLand House: 1 unknown, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Howard & Bowen Corp/Rochester, N.Y.SilverUnknown
Rochester Smelt & Ref/Rochester, NyAluminumPlant

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairport, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFairport$50,000no account filed
June 2008HailFairport$35,000no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFairport$15,000no account filed
April 2004HailFairport$10,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindFairport$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Crystal Spring Lane.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindFairport$2,000Trees and powerlines were reported to be down at Golf Avenue and Marsh Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFairport$500A tree was downed on Golf Avenue near the intersection of Marsh Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFairport$500A tree was down in a yard on South Lincoln Road.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Polvino Buildingunder 500 feet2019
Building at 551-555 North Goodman Street0.5 miles1986
Eastman Dental Dispensary0.6 miles1983
J. Hungerford Smith Company Factory0.6 miles2021
East High School0.6 miles1983
Chester Dewey School No. 140.7 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100004913 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 233 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.