John and Chauncey White House

Built in 1828 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“John and Chauncey White House, also known as the John White Homestead, is a historic home and national historic district located near West Sweden, Monroe County, New York. It was built about 1851, and is a L-shaped, Italianate style brick dwelling with a cross-gable roof.”
Wikipedia article John and Chauncey White House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1828, Italianate architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. White, John and Chauncey, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 854 White Rd., West Sweden, 14420
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. district
Town. Sweden town
When was it built? 1828
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 13001091 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

126 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of John and Chauncey White House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 39 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	39
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	11
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of John and Chauncey White House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Lead, Zinc. 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
Clarendon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Holly Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Brockport Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Holly Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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.

1899 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1934 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Lake View Cemetery	2.5 miles	2009
Brockport Central Rural High School	2.8 miles	2011
Edward Harrison House	3.1 miles	2010
Brockport West Side Historic District	3.2 miles	2021
Morgan-Manning House	3.2 miles	1991
St. Luke's Episcopal Church	3.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001091 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.