A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1690 (Dutch Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“The Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort, is located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York City, New York, US. It was home of Alice Austen, a photographer, for most of her lifetime, and is now a museum and a member of the Historic House Trust.”
Wikipedia article Alice Austen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1690, Dutch Colonial Revival architecture · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 70000925 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1898 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18981998
Fires near this property
1,872 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,872 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth Alice Austen House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 956 acres in total. 164 started naturally. 124 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
1307
Natural
164
Arson/incendiarism
124
Smoking
97
Debris and open burning
52
Equipment and vehicle use
51
Fireworks
35
Recreation and ceremony
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Other causes
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
4 workings within 5 miles of Elizabeth Alice Austen House: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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