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One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wood and Brooks Company Factory Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
The listing
- Address. 2101 Kenmore Ave., Tonawanda, 14207
- When was it listed? July 2023
- Category. building
- Town. Tonawanda town
- National Register reference number. 100009162 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1894 to 1960The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
634 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 634 fires within 5 miles of Wood and Brooks Company Factory Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 55 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 | 359 |
| Natural | 99 |
| Smoking | 67 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 3 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wood and Brooks Company Factory Complex: 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Perlite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Perlite Plant | Perlite | Plant | ||
| Williams Gold Refin./ Buffalo, N.Y. | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Hanna Furnace Corp/ Buffalo, N.Y. | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Republic Steel/ Buffalo, N.Y. | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this property
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonawanda, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | $400,000 | no account filed |
| November 1999 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | $300,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | $200,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $12,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | $10,000 | Flooding with flowing water was reported at Morgan Street and Kohler Street. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | $10,000 | Knoche Road was closed due to flooding between Elmwood and Deleware Avenues. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $8,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $5,000 | Part of a school roof was torn off. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $5,000 | Multiple trees and power lines were reported down. |
| February 2019 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $2,000 | Trees and power lines down onto Kohler Street. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $1,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $500 | A power pole was snapped. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda | $500 | A tree was reported down near Highland Avenue and Tussing Lane. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Tonawanda | - | Several cars trapped in high water on Delaware Avenue under an underpass. Near Knoche Road. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Tonawanda | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1894 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
- 1948 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Buffalo NW quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Buffalo NW quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Riverside Park | 0.9 miles | 1982 |
 | Public School No. 60 | 0.9 miles | 2014 |
| St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex | 1.2 miles | 2022 | |
 | Tonawanda Municipal Building | 1.2 miles | 2013 |
 | Eberhardt Mansion | 1.3 miles | 1983 |
| Chandler Street Industrial Buildings | 1.4 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009162 in Record Group 79. |
| Erie County | All 283 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.