Farmer's National Bank and W.H. Hughes Slate Company Office
Built in 1891 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Hughes Slate Company Office, also known as the Granville Town Hall, is a historic commercial building located at Granville, Washington County, New York. The original section was built in 1891, and expanded twice between about 1912 and 1943.”
Wikipedia article Farmer's National Bank and W.H. Hughes Slate Company Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1891, Romanesque Revival architecture.
National Register reference number. 14000330 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1893 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931989
Fires near this property
90 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Farmer's National Bank and W.H. Hughes Slate Company Office
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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
40
Debris and open burning
19
Arson/incendiarism
16
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Natural
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
1
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
93 workings within 5 miles of Farmer's National Bank and W.H. Hughes Slate Company Office: 57 past producers, 35 producers, 1 occurrence.
35 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Granville, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 26 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 flood.
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.
Several trees were reported down in Granville as a result of thunderstorm winds. Roads needed to be closed as a result of being blocked from tree damage.
Record flooding occurred on the Mettawee River. The Kilpatrick Family Farm in Middle Granville suffered crop loss in their lowland fields abutting the Mettawee River. Flood waters destroyed the bulk of their fall crop which included leeks, lettuce, squash, arugula, bok choy, beans, brussel sprouts and radishes. ||The Granville river gage located on the right bank 110 feet downstream from the bridge on County Highway 21, and 2.2 miles north of Middle Granville exceeded its 7 foot flood stage at 1:33 pm EST August 28th, its 8.5 foot moderate flood stage at 4:36 pm, its 10 foot major flood stage at 5:57 pm, crested at a record 15.04 feet at 10:45 pm August 28th, and dropped below flood stage at 12:30 am August 30th.||Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
Record flooding occurred on the Mettawee River. The Kilpatrick Family Farm in Middle Granville suffered crop loss in their lowland fields abutting the Mettawee River. Flood waters destroyed the bulk of their fall crop which included leeks, lettuce, squash, arugula, bok choy, beans, brussel sprouts and radishes. ||The Granville river gage located on the right bank 110 feet downstream from the bridge on County Highway 21, and 2.2 miles north of Middle Granville exceeded its 7 foot flood stage at 1:33 pm EST August 28th, its 8.5 foot moderate flood stage at 4:36 pm, its 10 foot major flood stage at 5:57 pm, crested at a record 15.04 feet at 10:45 pm August 28th, and dropped below flood stage at 12:30 am August 30th.||Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
Multiple trees were reported down approximately 1 miles south of Granville due to strong thunderstorm winds. In addition, damage to siding was reported at a local senior citizen home.
Route 146 in Town of Granville closed with water over road. Sheriff reported severe flooding at site. Other locations around the county reported very heavy rainfall totals, including an estimated 3.5 inches that fell in Greenwich during the early afternoon hours.
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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