Prevost Manor House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Prevost Manor House, also known as Hush-Hush Farm, is a historic home located at Greenville in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1793-1794 and has a central block with a east wing and single-story rear wings.”
Wikipedia article Prevost Manor House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. W of Greenville off NY 81, Greenville, 12083
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Town. Greenville town
National Register reference number. 72000842 - 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Prevost Manor House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 15 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	85
Debris and open burning	38
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	11
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
19 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2002: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 lightning. 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 2002	Lightning	Greenville	$100,000	Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a barn in Greenville, Greene County. This 70' by 40' barn caught fire and completely burned to the ground. Sixty firefighters were deployed to the scene. No injuries were reported.
August 2002	Lightning	Greenville	$20,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Greenville	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Greenville	$4,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$3,500	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	$2,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Henry T. Botsford House	1.4 miles	1993
Greenville Presbyterian Church Complex	1.4 miles	1985
Christ Church	1.5 miles	2015
Stevens Hill Farm	1.8 miles	2018
Weldon House	3.7 miles	2000
Woodward Road Stone Arch Bridge	3.8 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000842 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.