Built in 1830 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“Community Place, in Skaneateles, New York, United States, was built in 1830. It was photographed by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1963 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Community Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 178 National Register listings published here for Onondaga County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1830, Greek Revival architecture.
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.79001611- 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
118 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Community Place
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 17 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
50
Debris and open burning
17
Arson/incendiarism
17
Natural
16
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Smoking
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Community Place: 6 producers, 2 past producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Skaneateles, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Thunderstorms winds downed numerous trees and wires from Skaneateles through Marcellus, Marietta, and Amber to Otisco. The worst damage was in the village of Skaneateles. In the village an antique boat show was wrapping up. The wind overturned many sailboats on the lake. West Lake Road was hard hit. The wind sheared off the roof of an apartment building on Jordan Road in Skaneateles. A state of emergency was declared in the village and town of Skaneateles. Trees fell on a few houses. More than 3,000 customers lost electricity.
A complex of early morning thunderstorms produced flash flooding in southwestern sections of the county along Skaneateles Creek. Several roads were closed for a few hours immediately adjacent to the creek. Also, some nearby homes had severe basement flooding and even some water into the first floor. By mid morning, thunderstorms had dissipated and water levels receded. However, residual boundaries left behind by this area of thunderstorms helped spark isolated severe weather later in the afternoon across central New York.
Lightning struck the rear entryway and deck of a house in the village of Skaneateles. The lightning started a fire which was quickly extinguished by firefighters.
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.
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.
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.
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