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Photograph of Church of the Transfiguration
Photograph by Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church of the Transfiguration

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Church of the Transfiguration is a historic Episcopal church located at Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York, United States.”

Wikipedia article Church of the Transfiguration (Blue Mountain Lake, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Blue Mountain Lake on NY 30, Blue Mountain Lake, 12812
  • When was it listed? July 1977
  • Category. building
  • Town. Indian Lake town
  • Architect. Manly N. Cutter
  • National Register reference number. 77000942 - 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

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Church of the Transfiguration, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Church of the Transfiguration, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

19 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Transfiguration between 2004 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSOUTH POND 2
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
20 August 2010Natural1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCASTLE ROCK FIRE
19 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSOUTH POND FIRE
16 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSOUTH POND
15 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Mountain Lake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBlue Mountain Lake$250,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBlue Mountain Lake$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Blue Mountain House Annex0.3 miles1977
Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station0.6 miles2001
Hedges, The1.0 miles2009
Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station1.8 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000942 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 24 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.