Skinny House

Built in 1932. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1932.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 175 Grand St., Mamaroneck, 10543
When was it listed? May 2015
Category. building
Town. Mamaroneck town
When was it built? 1932
National Register reference number. 15000235 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

371 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 371 fires within 5 miles of Skinny House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 49 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	199
Smoking	55
Arson/incendiarism	49
Natural	23
Recreation and ceremony	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mamaroneck, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mamaroneck	$500	Wires were reported down in Mamaroneck.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mamaroneck	-	Mesonet site at American Yacht Club in Rye NY measured a 61 mph wind gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mamaroneck	-	Mesonet site at the American Yacht Club measured a 61 mph wind gust.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Mamaroneck	-	Several cars were stranded in flood waters at the intersection of Bishop Avenue and Fenimore Road in Mamaroneck.
August 2008	Hail	Mamaroneck	-	Penny size hail was reported.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Mamaroneck	-	Significant street flooding

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Mamaroneck quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Mamaroneck quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Mamaroneck quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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
Walter's Hot Dog Stand	0.2 miles	2010
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church Complex	0.4 miles	2003
Child Welfare Association of Mamaroneck	0.5 miles	2021
Mamaroneck Methodist Church	0.8 miles	1992
Albert E. and Emily Wilson House	1.0 miles	2007
US Post Office-Larchmont	1.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000235 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.
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.