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Community of True Inspiration Residence

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Community of True Inspiration Residence, also known as the Lower Ebenezer Society house and West Seneca Historical Society, is a historic home located at West Seneca in Erie County, New York. It was built about 1850, and is a vernacular wood-frame building with a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Community of True Inspiration Residence, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 919 Mill Rd., West Seneca, 14224
  • When was it listed? June 2013
  • Category. building
  • Town. West Seneca town
  • National Register reference number. 13000447 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1894 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Community of True Inspiration Residence, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering Community of True Inspiration Residence, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

720 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 720 fires within 5 miles of Community of True Inspiration Residence between 2000 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 128 started naturally. 88 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/undetermined397
Natural128
Arson/incendiarism88
Smoking49
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 2012Missing 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
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Erie 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 Community of True Inspiration Residence: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Limestone, General. 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
Bethlehem Steel/ Lackawana, N.Y.IronUnknown
Federal Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Mauls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olivieri PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Orchard Park PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Seneca, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 11 flash flood, 5 flood, 2 hail, 1 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
January 1996Flash FloodWest Seneca$1,000,000no account filed
January 2001Flash FloodWest Seneca$100,000no account filed
December 2008FloodWest Seneca$50,000no account filed
February 2001Flash FloodWest Seneca$50,000no account filed
February 1996Flash FloodWest Seneca$50,000no account filed
March 2007FloodWest Seneca$25,000no account filed
December 2013FloodWest Seneca$20,000Cazenovia Creek at Ebenezer crested at 12.25 feet at 04:45 EST on 12/22/2013. Flood Stage is 10 feet.
July 2017Flash FloodWest Seneca$20,000no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodWest Seneca$20,000no account filed
February 1996Flash FloodWest Seneca$20,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Seneca$15,000Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in Cazenovia Park.
February 2000Flash FloodWest Seneca$15,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodWest Seneca$15,000no account filed
March 2015Flash FloodWest Seneca$10,000no account filed
March 2009FloodWest Seneca$10,000no account filed
May 2000HailWest Seneca$10,000no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodWest Seneca$10,000no account filed
January 2014FloodWest Seneca$5,000no account filed
June 2017HailWest Seneca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
South Side Bank of Buffalo3.1 miles2021
Shea's Seneca Building3.1 miles2017
Cazenovia Park-South Park System3.4 miles1982
St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church Complex3.5 miles2017
Depew High School3.5 miles2016
St. Teresa's Roman Catholic Church Complex3.5 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000447 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie CountyAll 283 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.