Shady Brook Farm

Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Shady Brook Farm is a historic home located at Marlboro, Ulster County, New York. The house was originally built about 1850 in the Greek Revival style, and substantially enlarged and remodeled about 1917.”
Wikipedia article Shady Brook Farm (Marlboro, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1850.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 351 Old Post Rd., Marlboro, 12542
When was it listed? November 2012
Category. building
Town. Marlborough town
When was it built? 1850
National Register reference number. 12000961 - 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.

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Shady Brook Farm, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Shady Brook Farm, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

379 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 379 fires within 5 miles of Shady Brook Farm between 1999 and 2020, burning about 601 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 60 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	188
Arson/incendiarism	60
Smoking	38
Natural	28
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	1

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
8 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Shady Brook Farm: 16 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Clinton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Clay Pit No. Hj-019	Clay	Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hj-019.	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hj-023	Clay	Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hj-023	Clay	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarries No. Hj-018	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-016	Stone	Producer	Unknown
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-017	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-021	Stone	Past Producer
Cedar Cliff Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marlboro, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	$30,000	no account filed
December 2023	Flood	Marlboro	$20,000	Residents at the Weyant Green Apartments were evacuated due to severe flooding.
June 1998	Lightning	Marlboro	$20,000	In Ulster County at Marlborough, lightning struck and destroyed a 60 foot storage trailer which stored household items.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	$5,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	$2,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	Tree and wires were downed on Herman Drive in Marlboro.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	Trees and wires were downed in the hamlet of Marlboro.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	A large limb was downed on Bloom Street.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	Trees and wires were downed.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	Wires downed onto Western Ave.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Marlboro	-	Thunderstorm heavy rainfall led to flash flooding in Marlboro. A vehicle became stuck at the intersection of Route 9W and Old Post Road due to high water.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Marlboro	-	It was reported a foot of water flowed into the Marlboro Fire House.
September 2010	Hail	Marlboro	-	Pea to nickel size hail was reported in Marlboro during a thunderstorm.
June 2009	Hail	Marlboro	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Marlboro during a thunderstorm.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	Trees were reported down in Marlboro due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlboro	-	Trees down

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Wappinger Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Wappingers Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Elliot-Buckley House	0.3 miles	2011
Dubois-Sarles Octagon	0.4 miles	2002
Christ Episcopal Church	0.5 miles	2010
Chapel Hill Bible Church	1.3 miles	2005
Lattingtown Baptist Church	3.8 miles	2010
Milton Railroad Station	4.1 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000961 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.