Photograph of Casa Belvedere — Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Louis A. and Laura Stirn House

Built in 2008. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Casa Belvedere is a cultural center devoted to Italian studies, located in the Louis A. and Laura Stirn House at 79 Howard Avenue in Grymes Hill, Staten Island, New York City. The mansion was constructed in 1908, and is an Italian Renaissance style building with Arts and Crafts detailing.”
Wikipedia article Casa Belvedere, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 2008.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Stirn, Louis A. and Laura, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 79 Howard Ave, Staten Island
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. building
Borough. Staten Island
When was it built? 2008
National Register reference number. 10000899 - 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.

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Louis A. and Laura Stirn House, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet covering Louis A. and Laura Stirn House, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,723 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,723 fires within 5 miles of Louis A. and Laura Stirn House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 763 acres in total. 170 started naturally. 101 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	1203
Natural	170
Arson/incendiarism	101
Smoking	86
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Debris and open burning	43
Fireworks	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Louis A. and Laura Stirn House: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cooper & Hewitt Mine	Iron	Past Producer
New Dorp Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

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
Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer Street	0.4 miles	1982
Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer Street	0.4 miles	1982
Caleb T. Ward Mansion	0.4 miles	1982
St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectory	0.4 miles	1980
Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen Park	0.6 miles	1980
Temple Israel Reform Congregation	0.6 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000899 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond County	All 63 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.