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Photograph of Old House
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Old House, The

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Old House is a historic home on State Route 25 in Cutchogue in Suffolk County, New York. It is "notable as one of the most distinguished surviving examples of English domestic architecture in America."”

Wikipedia article Old House (Cutchogue), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. NY 25, Cutchogue, 11935
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • Town. Southold town
  • National Register reference number. 66000573 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

112 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Old House, The between 2000 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined59
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cutchogue, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCutchogue$1,000Large branch reported down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Cutchogue$1,000Large tree limb down near Oregon Road and Bridge Lane.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Joshua Wells House0.1 miles2002
David Tuthill Farmstead0.4 miles1984
New Suffolk School1.2 miles2002
Jesse and Ira Tuthill House1.9 miles2006
Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building2.3 miles1976
High House & Studio2.8 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000573 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 338 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.