de Kooning, Elaine, House and Studio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 55 Alewive Brook Rd., East Hampton, 11937
When was it listed? January 2022
Category. building
Town. East Hampton town
National Register reference number. 100007372 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of de Kooning, Elaine, House and Studio between 1992 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 6 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	85
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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 de Kooning, Elaine, 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
	Digate Concrete Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Hampton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1998	Lightning	East Hampton	4 hurt	no account filed
November 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	East Hampton	$20,000	Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	East Hampton	$3,000	Trees were reported down in East Hampton Village.
July 2023	Flash Flood	East Hampton	-	N Main Street closed due to flooding between Collins Ave and Cedar Street.
July 2023	Flash Flood	East Hampton	-	Disabled vehicle trapped in flood waters in East Hampton.
July 2023	Flash Flood	East Hampton	-	Intersection of Collins Ave and N Main Street in East Hampton is underwater and impassible.
June 2011	Hail	East Hampton	-	no account filed
April 2000	Lightning	East Hampton	-	no account filed
February 1998	Lightning	East Hampton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1903 USGS Gardiners Island quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Gardiners Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1921 USGS Gardiners Island quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Gardiners Island West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Gardiners Island West quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven 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
Van Scoy Burying Ground	0.4 miles	2023
Cedar Island Lighthouse	2.6 miles	2003
Ambrose Parsons House	3.2 miles	1995
Jackson Pollock House and Studio	3.3 miles	1994
Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Beach Subdivisions Historic District	3.5 miles	2019
Stephen Sherrill House	3.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007372 in Record Group 79.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.