Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Gansevoort Mansion is a historic home located at Gansevoort in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1813 and is two-story, five-bay rectangular building with a gable roof and central entrance.”
Wikipedia article Gansevoort Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001272- 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
1900 to 1989
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19001989
Fires near this property
198 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Gansevoort Mansion
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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
83
Debris and open burning
36
Arson/incendiarism
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
12
Recreation and ceremony
12
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Smoking
10
Natural
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Other causes
1
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Gansevoort Mansion: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Gansevoort, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flood, 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.
Route 32, Schuylerville Road, between Route 50 and Jewell Road was reported closed because of downed wires due to strong thunderstorm winds just to the east of the Village of Ganesvoort.
The Hudson River at Fort Edward exceeded its flood stage of 26.0 feet at 5:15 PM EST on November 17th, crested at 26.71 feet at 1:01 AM EST on the 18th, before falling back below flood stage at 5:49 PM EST on the 18th.
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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