Built in 1932 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“Woodward Hall, also known as the Stone House, Earl Woodard House, and "Woodhill," is a historic home located in the town of Lake Luzerne in Warren County, New York. It was built in 1931-1932, and is a two-story, rectangular building, five bays wide and two bays deep, with Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival style design elements in a somewhat eclectic design.”
Wikipedia article Woodward Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1932, Tudor Revival architecture.
National Register reference number. 14000206 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1903 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031989
Fires near this property
140 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Woodward Hall
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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
57
Recreation and ceremony
23
Arson/incendiarism
12
Natural
11
Debris and open burning
10
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Smoking
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Woodward Hall: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lake Luzerne, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
The Hudson River at Hadley reached moderate flood stage at 1000EST 1 November, rising to a crest of 17.96 feet at 1545EST. It fell below moderate flood stage buy 0118EST 2 November. The floodwaters reached some riverside streets in the Lake Luzerne area, including Stephen Lane where residents were evacuated. A residence on East River Drive sustained damage to basement walls as a result of the flooding.
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.
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.
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.
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