Built in 1870 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“Bartlett House is a historic railroad hotel which was restored in 2016 to house a kitchen, bakery, and cafe. It was built about 1870, and is a three-story, five bay by five bay, square, Italianate style brick building on a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Bartlett House (Ghent, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1870, Italianate architecture.
National Register reference number.12000268- 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
128 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Bartlett House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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
50
Debris and open burning
29
Arson/incendiarism
13
Natural
12
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Smoking
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ghent, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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.
***Downburst*** Widespread trees down, as well as power lines down. Approximately 3,700 NYS Electric & Gas customers were without power during the height of the storm. In addition, two telephone poles came down, knocking out phone service to 200 customers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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