Cottage in the Pines

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Pine Brook Manor, also known previously as Cottage in the Pines, Pine Park Cottage and Dunwald Farm, is a national historic district located at Rio in Orange County, New York. The district includes: a large three-story boarding house ; a mill and weir ; a large woodshop; mill pond; two smaller workshops; a machine shop ; bungalow; and several small sheds.”
Wikipedia article Cottage in the Pines, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1200 NY 42, Deerpark, 12780
When was it listed? October 2015
Category. district
Town. Deerpark town
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 15000515 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1906 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Cottage in the Pines, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Cottage in the Pines, surveyed 1906

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 Cottage in the Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Arson/incendiarism	25
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
21 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
30 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	23 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	New York Forest Rangers	BAER RD FIRE
5 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1906 USGS Port Jervis quadrangle1:62500
1908 USGS Port Jervis quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Port Jervis North quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Port Jervis North quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Port Jervis North quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1992 USGS Port Jervis North quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Port Jervis North quadrangle1:24000

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
Neversink Valley Grange No. 1530	6.3 miles	2013
Huguenot Schoolhouse	6.4 miles	1997
Gumaer Cemetery	6.7 miles	2017
Gumaer Cemetery	6.7 miles	2017
Fort Decker	6.7 miles	1974
Delaware and Hudson Canal	6.9 miles	1968

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000515 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 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.