Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 777 Ridge Road and 781 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, 14218
When was it listed? February 2024
Category. district
City. Lackawanna city
National Register reference number. 100009962 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1894 to 1960

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

795 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 795 fires within 5 miles of Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 130 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	465
Arson/incendiarism	130
Natural	112
Smoking	34
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica Historic District: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bethlehem Steel/ Lackawana, N.Y.	Iron	Unknown
	Eastern Limestone Operation	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

13 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lackawanna, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$15,000	A downed tree damaged a car on Romeleo Street.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$12,000	no account filed
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a light pole in Lackawanna.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$10,000	Downed trees and power lines blocked Mariemont Street.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$8,000	Trained spotters reported trees down on Dash Street in Buffalo.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$2,000	Trees and powerlines were down at the intersection of Amber Street and South Park Avenue.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$1,000	A tree was reported downed onto a powerline.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$1,000	Trees and branches were downed in Cazenovia Park.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$1,000	A railroad track arm was snapped by fallen tree debris.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	$500	Downed power lines on Lakewood Avenue in Buffalo.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	-	Wind gust was measured on the Buffalo Skyway.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lackawanna	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Lackawanna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United 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
1948 USGS Buffalo SE quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Buffalo SE quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Buffalo SE quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo 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
Cazenovia Park-South Park System	1.1 miles	1982
St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church Complex	1.8 miles	2017
Our Mother of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church Complex	1.9 miles	2020
South Side Bank of Buffalo	2.0 miles	2021
Shea's Seneca Building	2.1 miles	2017
Depew High School	2.3 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009962 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.