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Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1836 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Bartow-Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx. The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.”
Wikipedia article Bartow-Pell Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 91 National Register listings published here for Bronx County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1836, Greek Revival architecture · 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. Pelham Bay Park, Shore Rd., New York, 10464
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Borough. The Bronx
When was it built? 1836
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 74001220 - 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.

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage House, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage House, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,586 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,586 fires within 5 miles of Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 431 acres in total. 111 started naturally. 99 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	1111
Natural	111
Arson/incendiarism	99
Smoking	89
Recreation and ceremony	82
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Debris and open burning	36
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Other causes	2

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
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Bronx County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Star Sand and Gravel Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bronx County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000

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
Boston-Secor Houses	1.7 miles	2024
Public School 15	1.9 miles	1981
Public School 17	2.0 miles	1984
Middletown Plaza	2.3 miles	2024
Edenwald Houses	2.3 miles	2024
Grace Episcopal Church	2.4 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bronx County	All 91 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.