Built in 1838. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“Bolton Priory is a historic home built in 1838 for the Reverend Robert Bolton and his family, in the Village of Pelham Manor in Westchester County, New York. The home stands upon a wooded tract of land overlooking Pelham Bay; the once large estate surrounding it has now diminished to 3.7 acres.”
Wikipedia article Bolton Priory (Pelham Manor, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1838.
National Register reference number.74001320- 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.
18911995
Fires near this property
1,330 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,330 fires within 5 miles of Bolton Priory
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 82 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
920
Natural
97
Smoking
87
Arson/incendiarism
82
Recreation and ceremony
66
Debris and open burning
33
Equipment and vehicle use
31
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Other causes
2
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 National Weather Service names
Pelham Manor, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 flash flood, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Flooding and road closure on Hutchinson River parkway Southbound between Exit 7 - Pelhamdale Ave. Hutchinson Blvd southbound Side (Pelham) and Exit 5B - East Third St, Mount Vernon, Pelham. All lanes of 2 blocked MM 7.2 to MM 5.6.
Several roads closed in Mount Vernon due to flooding. South Columbus Ave and South 3rd Ave. Mount Vernon Ave and Macquesten Pkwy. Mount Vernon Ave and North Bond Street. Sheridan Ave.
The combination of runoff and rivers overflowing their banks caused the following roads to be closed due to flooding: The Bronx River Pkwy. in both directions along its entire length in Westchester County, the Hutchinson River Pkwy. in both directions south of the Cross County Pkwy., portions of the Saw Mill River Pkwy. between the Cross County Pkwy. and exit 34 (Mt. Kisco), the Taconic State Pkwy. from the Kensico Dam to Hawthorne Circle, the New York State Thruway (I-87) northbound from exit 7 in Ardsley to the County Line at the Tappan Zee Bridge with approximately three feet of water across most of the lanes, the Sprain Brook Pkwy. southbound from Rt. 100 in Yonkers to the Bronx River Pkwy. split, the Taconic Pkwy. northbound entrance at Rt. 100 and Campfire Rd., Rt. 9 in both directions between Susan Ln. and Jack Ln. in Cortland Manor and is severely eroded, Rt. 9A at Cedar Ln. in Ossining and between Rt. 117 and the Taconic State Pkwy in Mount Pleasant, Rt. 118 in the area of State Hwy. 35 in Somers, Saw Mill River Rd. between Payne St. and Old Country Rd. in Greenburgh, Main St. between the 600 and 700 blocks in Peekskill, and Yonkers Ave. in Tuckahoe.
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.
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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