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Photograph of Gould Mansion Complex
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Gould Mansion Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Gould Mansion Complex is a historic home and national historic district located at Lyons Falls in Lewis County, New York. The district includes three contributing structures: the main house, carriage house and barn, and office building that served as headquarters for the Gould Paper Company.”

Wikipedia article Gould Mansion Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Main St., Lyons Falls, 13368
  • When was it listed? April 1978
  • Category. district
  • Town. West Turin town
  • Architect. Albert W. Fuller
  • National Register reference number. 78001857 - 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

38 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Gould Mansion Complex between 2002 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined13
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Gould Mansion Complex: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, 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
Port LeydenZirconium, Titanium, IronProspect1952
Port Leyden MineTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrence
Callanan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoch Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lyonsdale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Leyden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Turin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons Falls, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2001Flash FloodLyons Falls$15,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$15,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$12,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$10,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$2,000Trees and wires were reported down in Lyons Falls.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$1,000A tree was reported down onto wires on River Road.

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Maps showing this location

10 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
Forest Presbyterian Churchunder 500 feet2004
Pines, The0.3 miles2007
Wildwood Cemetery and Mary Lyon Fisher Memorial Chapel1.1 miles2011
Collinsville Cemetery1.8 miles2014
St. Mark's Church2.7 miles1998
Jonathan C. Collins House and Cemetery4.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001857 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 50 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.