James Alfred Roosevelt Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“James Alfred Roosevelt Estate, also known as Yellowbanks, is a historic estate located at Cove Neck in Nassau County, New York. It is located several hundred feet west of Sagamore Hill, home of President Theodore Roosevelt.”
Wikipedia article James Alfred Roosevelt Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Roosevelt, James Alfred, Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 360 Cove Neck Rd., Cove Neck, 11771
When was it listed? May 1979
Category. building
Town. Oyster Bay town
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
Architect. Bruce Price
National Register reference number. 79001592 - 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of James Alfred Roosevelt Estate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 43 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	101
Arson/incendiarism	43
Natural	33
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Smoking	11
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of James Alfred Roosevelt Estate: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	West Hills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Bayville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Bayville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Edward H. Swan House	0.5 miles	1976
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site	0.6 miles	1966
Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Station	1.1 miles	2005
Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable	1.1 miles	2005
Moore's Building	1.3 miles	1996
Christ Church	1.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001592 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.