Grace Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Grace Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Scottsville in Monroe County, New York. The church was designed by noted Rochester architect Harvey Ellis (1852-1904) and built in 1885.”
Wikipedia article Grace Church (Scottsville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 9 Brown's Ave, Scottsville, 14546
When was it listed? July 2010
Category. building
Town. Wheatland town
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000514 - 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

130 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Grace Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 32 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	19
Natural	16
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Grace Church: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Consolidated Wheatland Plaster Shft	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Empire Gypsum Co. Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Garbutt Gypsum Co Shaft #1	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Lycoming Calcining Co Mine #1	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
M. Rogers Farm Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Mcvane Farm Adit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Monarch Plaster Co. Shaft	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Unnamed Adit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miller Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottsville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$15,000	no account filed
November 2017	Flood	Scottsville	$10,000	Oatka Creek at Garbutt crested at 6.52 feet at 8:30 AM on the 7th (Flood Stage is 6 feet).
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$10,000	Broadcast media reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Quaker Road.
March 2009	Flood	Scottsville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$2,000	Trees and wires were reported down.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$1,000	Two trees were down on Quaker Road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$1,000	Trees were down onto Route 251.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Scottsville	-	Water was reported to be flowing over the roadway near South Road and Bowerman Road.
May 2025	Hail	Scottsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1899 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1934 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Union Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	2004
Windom Hall	0.2 miles	1994
Rochester Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1973
David McVean House	0.6 miles	2006
Cox-Budlong House	0.7 miles	2015
Simeon Sage House	0.8 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000514 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 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.