Elihu Root House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Elihu Root House is a historic house on College Hill Road, on the campus of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Built in 1817, it was the home of American statesman Elihu Root (1847-1937) from 1893 until his death.”
Wikipedia article Elihu Root House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1972 · 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

Listed as. Root, Elihu, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 101 College Hill Rd., Clinton, 13323
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Town. Kirkland town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 72000893 - 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

79 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Elihu Root House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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	51
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	3
Smoking	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
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Elihu Root House: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Marshall Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bertie Waterlime Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Eisler Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kirkland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lawless Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Borst Mines	Iron	Past Producer
Brimfield Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Clinton Mills Opening	Iron	Past Producer
Clinton Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Derwin Farm	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. 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
June 2013	Flash Flood	Clinton	$500,000	There was significant flooding of village roads, including up to 4 feet of water on College Street. Oriskany Creek, Sherman Brook and other un-named streams were all out of bank in the village.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$50,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb destroying a car and badly damaging the porch of a house.
November 2019	Flash Flood	Clinton	$40,000	Oriskany Creek was reported to be flooding Sanford Avenue, and other areas in the Town of Kirkland.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees and wires down.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down wires.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in several trees being knocked over in the town of Clinton.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
December 2023	Flash Flood	Clinton	$2,000	State Route 12B in the Town of New Hartford is flooded between Middle Settlement Rd. and State Route 5.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,000	A strong thunderstorm knocked down a large tree onto a roadway.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,000	Several trees were blown down.
July 2016	Hail	Clinton	$1,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$500	no account filed
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Multiple trees were blown down across central part of the county from 745 pm to 800 pm.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Several trees were knocked down.
June 2016	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2007	Funnel Cloud	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 2007	Funnel Cloud	Clinton	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1895 USGS Oriskany quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oriskany quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1947 USGS Rome quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica 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
Hamilton College Chapel	0.2 miles	1972
Rev. Asahel Norton Homestead	1.3 miles	1985
Edward W. Stanley Recreation Center	1.5 miles	2010
Clinton Village Historic District	1.6 miles	1982
St. Mark's Church	3.1 miles	1996
Deansboro Railroad Station	4.0 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000893 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 90 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.
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.