A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1665 (American colonial architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Van Cortlandt Manor House is a 17th-century house and property built by the Van Cortlandt family located near the confluence of the Croton and Hudson Rivers in the village of Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York, United States. The colonial era stone and brick manor house is now a museum; it is a National Historic Landmark.”
Wikipedia article Van Cortlandt Manor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 1665, American colonial architecture · a National Historic Landmark.
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number.66000579- 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
511 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 511 fires within 5 miles of Van Cortlandt Manor
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 38 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
283
Natural
50
Arson/incendiarism
38
Debris and open burning
37
Smoking
34
Recreation and ceremony
32
Equipment and vehicle use
29
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
22 workings within 5 miles of Van Cortlandt Manor: 12 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Clay, Lead, 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
Croton-on-Hudson, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
A raft carrying five men capsized on the Croton River just south of Silver Lake Park shortly before 6 pm. The men were rescued from the raging river, which was moving at a speed of around 40 mph, but not before three of the rescue workers were tossed from their rescue boat and were swept under a trestle bridge just south of the Croton-Harmon station. The rescue workers were pulled from the water without injury. One man on the raft suffered from hypothermia after being forced to cling to a tree for 2 hours until he was rescued. Another was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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.
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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