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Photograph of Hotel Broadalbin
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hotel Broadalbin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 59 W. Main St., Broadalbin, 12025
  • When was it listed? May 2011
  • Category. building
  • Town. Broadalbin town
  • National Register reference number. 11000252 - 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

214 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Broadalbin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined107
Debris and open burning52
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural10
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hotel Broadalbin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mayfield PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadalbin, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$250,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$34,000no account filed
August 2003Flash FloodBroadalbin$25,000no account filed
February 2023LightningBroadalbin$10,000The Broadalbin Baptist Church was struck by lightning causing some damage to the steeple and some of the electrical equipment.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$8,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$5,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailBroadalbin$4,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$3,000no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$2,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin$2,000no account filed
August 1997HailBroadalbin$1,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-A local 911 call center reported the shut down of Main Street in Broadalbin due to down trees and wires.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-Multiple trees and wires were downed in the village of Broadalbin. One tree was downed onto a car with people trapped inside. Other trees were downed onto houses.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindNorth Broadalbin-A large pine tree was snapped near the base resulting in downed wires.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-A tree was downed across Saratoga Avenue.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-A tree was reported down in Broadalbin due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2014HailBroadalbin-Both trained spotters and an NWS employee reported hail measuring up to two inches in diameter occurring in Broadalbin during a thunderstorm. Video footage showed golf ball sized hail impacting cars on State Route 29. Hail lasted up to fifteen minutes in duration.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-Trees and wires were reported down in Broadalbin during a thunderstorm.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-Trees and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds 1 mile west-northwest of Beatty Corners.
May 2012HailBroadalbin-Quarter sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Broadalbin via a WeatherNet6 spotter report.
July 2012HailBroadalbin-Penny sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Broadalbin.
August 2012HailBroadalbin-Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Broadalbin.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Broadalbin-Three trees were reported down on Bunker Hill Road in the town of Fish House.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBroadalbin-Two trees were blown down and wires were knocked down.
August 2020HailBroadalbin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Log Cabin Church4.8 miles1999
Oliver Rice House4.9 miles1995
Kingsboro Historic District7.0 miles1975
Godfrey Shew House7.1 miles2006
Gloversville Armory7.2 miles1995
Gustav Levor House7.2 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000252 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 25 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.