Al Held House and Studio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Held, Al, House and Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 26 Beechford Dr., Boiceville, 12412
When was it listed? January 2021
Category. district
Town. Olive town
National Register reference number. 100005440 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1900 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Al Held House and Studio, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Al Held House and Studio, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Al Held House and Studio between 1993 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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	40
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	WITTENBERG FIRE
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
20 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Al Held House and Studio: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Olive Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boiceville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Boiceville	-	A large tree was downed in Boiceville.
October 2010	Flood	Boiceville	-	Major flooding occurred on the Esopus Creek at Cold Brook. Cold Brook crested at 18.86 feet at 0600 LST on October 1st. Flood stage is 11 feet.
October 2006	Flood	Boiceville	-	On October 28, minor flooding occurred on Esopus Creek at Cold Brook. The creek crested at 11.78 feet at 12:15 PM EST. Flood stage is 11.0 feet.
October 2006	Flood	Boiceville	-	On October 28, an airplane pilot reported that the Esopus Creek was out of its banks at Boiceville near Route 28. Flooding was occurring in the wooded areas, but the water had not reached the roadway yet.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Boiceville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1946 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000

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
Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden	1.4 miles	1999
Camp Wapanachki	2.2 miles	1994
Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station	4.0 miles	2001
Vosburg Turning Mill Complex	4.1 miles	2002
Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church	4.1 miles	1998
Phoenicia Railroad Station	4.9 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005440 in Record Group 79.
Ulster County	All 209 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.