Built in 1896 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Old Southeast Town Hall is located on Main Street in Brewster, New York, United States. Built in 1896, it served as the main office of the Town of Southeast, which surrounds and includes Brewster.”
Wikipedia article Old Southeast Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1896, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.79001619- 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
385 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Old Southeast Town Hall
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 54 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
173
Arson/incendiarism
54
Smoking
42
Natural
32
Debris and open burning
31
Power generation/transmission/distribution
18
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Recreation and ceremony
8
Other causes
3
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
24 workings within 5 miles of Old Southeast Town Hall: 17 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Stone, Iron, Copper. 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
Brewster, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 1 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.
Periods of heavy rain resulted in flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office reported the closure of Mill Road in Philipstown.
Thunderstorms produced high winds that knocked down several trees and large branches all in the same direction in parts of the village of Brewster and surrounding parts in the township of Southeast in Putnam County. A funnel cloud was sighted near North Main Street in the village of Brewster.
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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