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John A. Hartford House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Hartford House, now known as Hartford Hall, is a historic house on the campus of Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, U.S. Hartford (1872-1951), company president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P).”
Wikipedia article John Hartford House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · 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. Hartford, John A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SW of Valhalla on NY 100, Valhalla, 10595
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. building
Town. Greenburgh town
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 77000987 - 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

876 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 876 fires within 5 miles of John A. Hartford House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 761 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 60 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	494
Smoking	84
Natural	80
Recreation and ceremony	75
Arson/incendiarism	60
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Debris and open burning	22
Power generation/transmission/distribution	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Other causes	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 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of John A. Hartford House: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Chester Metals Division Refinery	Silver	Plant
Lake Street Granite Mine	Granite	Producer
Lake Street Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valhalla, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Valhalla	$2,000	Trees down on Prospect Avenue with time estimated by radar.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Valhalla	-	Flooding and Road Closure on Taconic State Parkway southbound between Commerce Street and Lakeview Avenue. All lanes of 2 lanes closed.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Valhalla	-	Spraine Brook Parkway at Exit CR 301 closed due to flooding.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Valhalla	-	The Taconic State Parkway was closed in both directions in Hawthorne due to flooding between Stevens Avenue and Commerce Street.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Valhalla	-	Several cars were stranded in flood waters up to their doors near Brandurst Ave. in Mt. Pleasant.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Valhalla	-	The Sprain Brook Pkwy. was closed in Mt. Pleasant after multiple cars became inundated with water due to flooding.
May 2000	Lightning	Valhalla	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1932 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport 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
Miller House	1.2 miles	1976
Hammond House	1.2 miles	1980
White Plains Rural Cemetery	1.8 miles	2003
Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery	1.9 miles	1983
Leo Friedlander Studio	2.0 miles	1982
Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents	2.3 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000987 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 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.
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.