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New Brighton Village Hall

Built in 1868. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“New Brighton Village Hall was a historic village hall located at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. It was built between 1868 and 1871 in the Second Empire style.”

Wikipedia article New Brighton Village Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1868.

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.
  • Address. 66 Lafayette Ave., New York, 10301
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Staten Island
  • When was it built? 1868
  • National Register reference number. 78001904 - 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

1898 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering New Brighton Village Hall, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet covering New Brighton Village Hall, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,469 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,469 fires within 5 miles of New Brighton Village Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 154 started naturally. 89 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/undetermined1002
Natural154
Arson/incendiarism89
Smoking76
Equipment and vehicle use52
Debris and open burning40
Fireworks30
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of New Brighton Village Hall: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite. 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
Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J.GraphiteUnknown
Cooper & Hewitt MineIronPast Producer
New Dorp MineIronPast Producer
Tyson MineIronPast Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

16 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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001904 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond CountyAll 63 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.