Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building

Built in 1854. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building, also known as Mattituck, the Octagon House and Mattituck Octagon House, is an historic octagon house located at Main Road and Love Lane in Mattituck, New York. It was built in 1854 by Andrew Gildersleeve, a master carpenter, who used it for his family home as well as for a store.”
Wikipedia article Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1854.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Gildersleeve, Andrew, Octagonal Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main Rd. and Love Lane, Mattituck, 11952
When was it listed? August 1976
Category. building
Town. Southold town
When was it built? 1854
National Register reference number. 76001280 - 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

96 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building between 2001 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mattituck, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1999	Tornado (F2)	Mattituck	1 hurt, $1,000,000	no account filed
August 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Mattituck	$10,000	The National Weather Service in New York, NY confirmed a weak tornado near Mattituck in Suffolk County, New York on August 10, 2016.\|\|Based on a survey conducted by an NWS Meteorologist, and information from NWS doppler weather radar data, emergency management, and trained Skywarn\|spotters, the National Weather Service confirmed a weak EF0\|tornado occurred in Mattituck, caused by a severe thunderstorm moving over the area. \|\|Most wind damage was concentrated between Main Road and New Suffolk Avenue close to the corridor from Cardinal Drive southeast to Blossom Bend, where the tornado lifted before reaching New Suffolk Avenue. Wind damage was confined mainly to trees, where several trees were snapped in half.\|\|Based on this limited damage, this tornado is classified as an EF-0 with wind gusts up to 70 mph.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattituck	$4,000	Trees were reported down at the intersection of Mill Lane and Route 25, just east of Mattituck.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattituck	$3,000	Trees were reported down in Mattituck.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattituck	$2,000	Numerous trees were reported down in Mattituck.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattituck	$750	Large branches were reported down at the intersection of Reeve and New Suffolk Avenues.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattituck	$500	Several large branches were reported down.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Mattituck	-	New Suffolk Ave. in Cutchogue was closed due to flooding.
August 2008	Hail	Mattituck	-	Penny size hail was reported in Mattituck.
May 2004	Hail	Mattituck	-	A spotter reported penny size hail.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattituck	-	A line of thunderstorms produced high wind gusts on the North Fork of Long Island in Mattituck. A few trees and numerous large branches were downed as a result. Power was knocked out for several hours.
September 2006	Flash Flood	Mattituck	-	no account filed
September 2006	Flash Flood	Mattituck	-	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Mattituck	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Mattituck	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1903 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Mattituck quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Mattituck quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East 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
Jesse and Ira Tuthill House	0.4 miles	2006
Richard Cox House	1.9 miles	1986
David Tuthill Farmstead	1.9 miles	1984
Old House, The	2.3 miles	1966
Joshua Wells House	2.4 miles	2002
Southold Milestone 7	2.5 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001280 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 338 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.
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.