Northbrook Lodge

Built in 1919 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Northbrook Lodge on Osgood Pond is a historic camp located within the Adirondack Forest Preserve in Paul Smiths in Franklin County, New York. The camp complex was built by noted great camp builder Benjamin A.”
Wikipedia article Northbrook Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1919, American Craftsman.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 14 structuress, 11 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 58 Northbrook Rd., Paul Smiths, 12970
When was it listed? April 2014
Category. building
Town. Brighton town
When was it built? 1919
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 14000127 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1902 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Northbrook Lodge, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering Northbrook Lodge, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

39 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Northbrook Lodge between 1999 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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	14
Recreation and ceremony	13
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	9.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	COOLER POND #2

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Northbrook Lodge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tucker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unnamed Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paul Smiths, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$20,000	Multiple trees down forcing closure on Route 30.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$20,000	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$10,000	Several trees down on Keese Mills, Barnum Pond and White Pine roads as well as Routes 60 and 31.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$10,000	Trees down on powerlines across sections of Paul Smiths.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$10,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$5,000	A few trees downed by thunderstorm winds and down across a residential propane tank.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Route 30 in Paul Smiths.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Paul Smiths	$1,000	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$1,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$1,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul Smiths	$1,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1902 USGS Saranac quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Saranac quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Saranac Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Bloomingdale quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Bloomingdale quadrangle1:25000

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
Brighton Town Hall	0.7 miles	2003
Paul Smith's Hotel Cottages	1.5 miles	1999
St. Regis Presbyterian Church	3.2 miles	2020
Camp Wild Air	3.4 miles	1986
Camp Topridge	3.8 miles	1986
St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station	4.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000127 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 86 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.