Smith Bly House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Smith Bly House is a historic house located in Ashville, Chautauqua County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Smith Bly House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bly, Smith, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4 N. Maple St., Ashville, 10923
When was it listed? October 1974
Category. building
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 74001223 - 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.

Storms near this property

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashville	$12,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees blocking Route 474.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Ashville	$10,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001223 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua County	All 50 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.
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.