Old Westbury Gardens

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of businessman John Shaffer Phipps (1874-1958), an heir to the Phipps family fortune, in Nassau County, New York. Located at 71 Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury, the property was converted into a museum home in 1959.”
Wikipedia article Old Westbury Gardens, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 71 Old Westbury Rd., Westbury, 11568
When was it listed? November 1976
Category. building
Town. North Hempstead town
Architect. George A. Crawley
National Register reference number. 76001234 - 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

1,027 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,027 fires within 5 miles of Old Westbury Gardens between 1993 and 2020, burning about 456 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 86 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	643
Smoking	119
Arson/incendiarism	86
Natural	60
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Power generation/transmission/distribution	32
Debris and open burning	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Old Westbury Gardens: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
	Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westbury, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2005	Flash Flood	Westbury	-	Torrential rains caused flash flooding of Streets.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Westbury	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
John S. Old Westbury Gardens-Phipps Estate (Boundary Increase)	0.1 miles	2011
Saint Mary's Chapel	1.7 miles	2005
A. Conger Goodyear House	1.9 miles	2003
Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage	2.4 miles	1991
East Williston Village Historic District	2.4 miles	1985
Roslyn House	2.6 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001234 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.