Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The Saratoga Springs Visitor Center, located at 297 Broadway in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York, in the building known historically as "The Drinkhall", was built in 1915 as a trolley station by the Hudson Valley Railroad. It was designed by Ludlow and Peabody in the Beaux Arts style.”
Wikipedia article Saratoga Springs Visitor Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001302- 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
1902 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021989
Fires near this property
278 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Drinkhall, The
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 27 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
141
Natural
27
Arson/incendiarism
27
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Smoking
22
Debris and open burning
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Recreation and ceremony
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
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
17 workings within 5 miles of Drinkhall, The: 12 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Saratoga Springs, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A cold front moved south from Canada into the Saint Lawrence Valley late on the 2nd of June resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of eastern New York. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across parts of Madison, Oneida, Chenango, Otsego, and Saratoga Counties. Especially hard hit was the Westerville area in Oneida County where many roads were closed by fallen trees. In Saratoga County trees fell on a home in Wilton causing extensive damage to the home, while a motorcyclist was injured when a large tree limb fell on him in Saratoga Springs.
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.
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.
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.
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