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Photograph of Marmaduke Forster House
Photograph by Nat Postrigan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marmaduke Forster House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Marmaduke Forster House, also known as the Forster-Hobby-Washburn House, is an historic home located in Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York. The original section of the house was built about 1785 by Marmaduke Forster, a colonial carpenter from New York City, as a timber frame dwelling.”

Wikipedia article Marmaduke Forster House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2011 · 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.
  • Listed as. Forster, Marmaduke, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 413-415 Bedford Rd, Pleasantville, 10570
  • When was it listed? February 2011
  • Category. building
  • Town. Mount Pleasant town
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 11000139 - 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

511 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 511 fires within 5 miles of Marmaduke Forster House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined245
Natural74
Recreation and ceremony45
Debris and open burning37
Smoking32
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use26
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Marmaduke Forster House: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. 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
Armonk PlantPeatPast ProducerPeat
Ossining AreaVanadium, LeadOccurrenceVanadinite
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
June 2008LightningPleasantville$200,000Lightning struck the upper portion of a condo complex, ignited fires, and displaced at least 8 families.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$50,000The National Weather Service in coordination with Westchester County |Office of Emergency Management performed a storm survey in Westchester County. ||The survey determined that a storm produced a swath of straight line wind damage from Pleasantville to Chappaqua with wind gusts up to 80 mph. ||At Chappaqua, Kipp Street near the intersection of Quaker Road (Route 120) was partially closed due to downed large tree branches and several large downed trees, some into houses. Peak wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph. ||At Pleasantville, where the most significant thunderstorm wind damage occurred, peak wind gusts were estimated at 70 to 80 mph between 300 and 500 Washington Avenue. Several large trees and branches were downed, including into houses, with a few tree tops snapped off. Damage to gutters and backyard decks occurred as well due to falling trees.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$7,500Numerous trees were reported down throughout Pleasantville, including some down on wires, causing sporadic power outages.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$5,000Multiple trees were reported down across town.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$3,000Multiple trees down on highway 100 north of Chappaqua Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$3,000A tree down on wires on Old Sleepy Hollow Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$2,000Trees reported down with time estimated by radar.
July 2019Flash FloodPleasantville-All southbound lanes closed on the Saw Mill River Parkway due to flooding south of Grant Street (Exit 30) in the vicinity of Pleasantville Road (CR 106) in Mount Pleasant.
July 2013Flash FloodPleasantville-The Saw Mill River Pkwy. was closed in Hawthorne between the Taconic Pkwy. and Manville Rd. due to flooding.
May 2011FloodPleasantville-The Saw Mill River Pkwy. around Marble Ave. near the Taconic State Pkwy., and the Bronx River Pkwy. from the County Center in White Plains south to the Sprain Brook Pkwy. were closed due to flooding. Two water rescues were performed on the Bronx River Pkwy., one of which was at Pondfield Rd. in Bronxville.
July 2011HailPleasantville-Hail was observed on the Taconic Parkway in Briarcliff Manor.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasantville-Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines in Briarcliff Manor.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPleasantville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. John's Episcopal Church0.1 miles2017
Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove1.6 miles1979
Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza1.7 miles1979
Rehoboth1.7 miles1979
Greeley House1.8 miles1979
Usonia Historic District2.2 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000139 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 250 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.