Glen Cove Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Old Glen Cove Post Office is a historic post office building located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was designed by Stephen Voorhees, then with the architecture firm Eidlitz & McKenzie, and built in 1905.”
Wikipedia article Old Glen Cove Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

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.
Address. 51 Glen St, Glen Cove, 11542
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. building
City. Glen Cove city
National Register reference number. 10000957 - 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

257 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Glen Cove Post Office between 2000 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 24 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	110
Smoking	50
Arson/incendiarism	24
Power generation/transmission/distribution	19
Natural	18
Recreation and ceremony	14
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5

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
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glen Cove Post Office: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.	Tungsten	Unknown
Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Washington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Washington Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Cove, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 2 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	2 hurt, $10,000	Multiple trees fell at Morgan Memorial Park, including one onto a Gazebo, which injured one person under it, and a second on a car, injuring the occupant.
August 2005	Tornado (F1)	Glen Cove	$135,000	A weak and short-lived F1 tornado touched down around 945 pm EDT in Glen Cove. The tornado formed in a thunderstorm that formed on an outflow boundary produced by a line of thunderstorms over Long Island Sound. The tornado moved from northwest to southeast and was estimated to be on the ground for only a minute or two. However, it caused considerable damage to many of the large trees in the area. Many large trees in the neighborhood to the south of the Welwyn Preserve came down and did considerable damage to homes and property. Damage was reported as far southeast as North Shore University Hospital. There were no known injuries.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$20,000	A large tree was downed on three cars.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$15,000	Glen Cove reports numerous trees down across the area.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$7,500	Numerous tree limbs and power lines were reported down throughout the town of Glenn Cove.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$7,500	Several trees were reported down in Glenn Cove.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$5,000	Numerous trees were downed.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$4,000	Multiple power lines were reported down throughout Glen Cove.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$2,000	Trees were reported down on Philips Road, Saint Andrew Lane, and Elm Avenue just west of Glen Cove.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	$500	A large tree limb was reported down at a home near the Nassau Country Club.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Glen Cove	-	Nassau County Emergency Management reports multiple vehicles stuck in flood waters with ongoing rescues in Glen Cove, Port Washington, and Locust Valley.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Glen Cove	-	Police reported that numerous roadways were flooded and impassable in Glen Cove.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Glen Cove	-	Route 107 was flooded in Glen Head with water flowing across the road and several vehicles disabled.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Glen Cove	-	Several roads in Glen Cove were impassable due to flooding including Duck Pond Road, Garvies Point Road, and Sea Cliff Avenue.
March 2010	Flood	Glen Cove	-	Glen Cove High School was evacuated due to flooding. Several roads were closed in Bayville due to flooding. Some residents also had basement flooding.\|\|Total rainfall amounts received ranged from 2.92 inches in Malverne to 5.31 inches in East Meadow.
March 2010	Flood	Glen Cove	-	Heavy rain caused a mudslide and property damage between 119 Shore Rd. in Glen Cove and 11 Prospect Ave. in Sea Cliff.\|\|Total rainfall amounts reported across Nassau County were between 4.66 inches in Levittown and 6.18 inches in Lynbrook.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	-	A wind gust of 58 MPH was estimated by a NWS employee.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	-	A 58 MPH wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Cove	-	A mesonet site in Glenn Cove measured a gust of 77 mph.
July 2009	Hail	Glen Cove	-	Nickel size hail was reported by emergency management officials.
August 2008	Hail	Glen Cove	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Glen Cove	-	Thunderstorms produced rainfall rates between 1 and 2 inches per hour, which resulted in widespread flooding of streets and poor drainage areas.
June 2015	Hail	Glen Cove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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
US Post Office-Glen Cove	0.3 miles	1989
Justice Court Building	0.3 miles	1990
Sea Cliff Railroad Station	1.0 miles	1988
Woolworth Estate	1.0 miles	1979
Sea Cliff Village Hall, Library and Museum Complex	1.2 miles	2005
House at 112 Sea Cliff Avenue	1.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000957 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.