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John D. Rockefeller Estate

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York, 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefeller family patriarch John D.”

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One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1976 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Rockefeller, John D., Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Pocantico Hills, Mt. Pleasant, 10591
  • When was it listed? May 1976
  • Category. district
  • Town. Mount Pleasant town
  • Architect. Chester Holmes Aldrich
  • National Register reference number. 76001290 - 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

679 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 679 fires within 5 miles of John D. Rockefeller Estate between 2000 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 46 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/undetermined372
Natural83
Recreation and ceremony55
Smoking47
Arson/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of John D. Rockefeller Estate: 5 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Silver, Copper, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
(Facility) Chester Metals Division RefinerySilverPlant
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Union Church of Pocantico Hills0.7 miles2002
Edward Harden Mansion0.8 miles2004
Dutch Reformed Church0.9 miles1966
Rockefeller Pocantico Hills Estate Historic District1.0 miles2019
Patriot's Park1.0 miles1982
Philipsburg Manor1.0 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 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.