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Edward Harrison House

Built in 1877 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Edward Harrison House, also known as Brockport Alumni House, is a historic home located at Brockport, Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1877, and is a three-story, Second Empire style frame dwelling with a two-story rear wing.”

Wikipedia article Edward Harrison House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1877, Second Empire style.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Harrison, Edward, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 75 College St, Brockport, 14420
  • When was it listed? October 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Sweden town
  • When was it built? 1877
  • Architectural style. Second Empire style
  • National Register reference number. 10000854 - 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

126 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Edward Harrison House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 39 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism39
Smoking16
Debris and open burning12
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Edward Harrison House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brockport QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brockport, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBrockport$350,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBrockport$25,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBrockport$25,000no account filed
August 2000HailBrockport$25,000no account filed
September 2009Thunderstorm WindBrockport$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down in Brockport.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBrockport$15,000no account filed
July 2008HailBrockport$10,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBrockport$4,000Thunderstorms during the evening of the 26th and early morning hours of the 27th downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages. In DeWitt, lightning damaged two substations resulting in 10,000 customers being without power.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBrockport$2,000Several trees were reported down in Brockport.
June 2009HailBrockport-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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000854 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.