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Harry and Molly Lewis House

Built in 1910 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

“Harry and Molly Lewis House, also known as the Fiber Products Research Center, is a historic home located near Beaver Falls in Lewis County, New York. It was built in 1909-1910, and is a five-bay, Colonial Revival style masonry dwelling with a rear ell.”

Wikipedia article Harry and Molly Lewis House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1910, Colonial Revival architecture.

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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Lewis, Harry and Molly, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 9520 E. Main St., Beaver Falls, 13620
  • When was it listed? November 2012
  • Category. building
  • Town. Croghan town
  • When was it built? 1910
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12000956 - 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

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Harry and Molly Lewis House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Harry and Molly Lewis House: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Croghan PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Croghan PlantGranitePast ProducerGranite
Croghan Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lehman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyndaker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Bremen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Falls, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$35,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$11,000Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours producing damaging winds and small hail. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$10,000A tree fell onto a house with with wires down as well.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$8,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$6,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBeaver Falls$2,000Trees and wires reported down.

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000956 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 50 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.