Photograph of Elephant Hotel — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Somers Town House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1820. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Elephant Hotel is a historic former hotel which today serves as the town hall in Somers, in Westchester County, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on August 7, 1974 as Somers Town House and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2005 as Elephant Hotel.”
Wikipedia article Elephant Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1820 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of U.S. 202 and NY 100, Somers, 10589
When was it listed? August 1974
Category. building
Town. Somers town
When was it built? 1820
National Register reference number. 74001323 - 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

405 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 405 fires within 5 miles of Somers Town House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 35 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	206
Natural	47
Arson/incendiarism	35
Debris and open burning	32
Smoking	31
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Other causes	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
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Somers Town House: 18 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, Stone. 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	Recorded
Croton Magnetite Iron Mines	Iron, Copper	Past Producer	1880
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Gk-013	Stone	Past Producer
Brewster Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Croton - Theall Magnetite Mine	Iron, Copper, Sulfur	Past Producer	1880, 1883
Croton-Mc Collum Magnetite Mine	Iron, Copper, Sulfur	Past Producer	1843, 1880
Croton-Theall Magnetite Mine	Iron, Copper, Sulfur	Past Producer
Somers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Somers Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Blackberry Magnetite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Blackberry Magnetite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somers, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$10,000	Photos of tree on a house in Somers.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$7,000	Route 116 closed due to downed trees. Trees also down on Route 202.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$5,000	A tree was reported down on a car on Route 22.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$3,000	Multiple reports of trees down in Somers.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$3,000	Several large trees and wires were reported down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$3,000	Multiple trees and wires were reported down in Somers.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$3,000	Trees were reported down in the town.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$3,000	Trees and wires were reported down along Route 100 in Somers.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$2,000	Tree limbs down and yard furniture tossed and damaged due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	$1,000	Tree down blocking Somers Road between Somerset Drive and Crane Road.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	-	Several trees were blown over by severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2003	Hail	Somers	-	A trained spotter reported penny size hail in Somers at 910 pm.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Somers	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Somers	-	no account filed
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	-	no account filed
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Somers	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

13 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 Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1928 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1944 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Croton Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Elephant Hotel	0.3 miles	2005
Gerard Crane House	1.2 miles	1985
Joseph Purdy Homestead	1.9 miles	1973
Mt. Zion Methodist Church	2.2 miles	1990
Bridge L-158	2.3 miles	1978
West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery	3.1 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001323 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.