Cornell Farmhouse

Built in 1750 (Dutch colonial architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Queens County Farm Museum, also known as Queens Farm, is a 47-acre (190,000 m2) farm in the Glen Oaks neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The farm occupies the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland, and is still a working farm today.”
Wikipedia article Queens County Farm Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1750, Dutch colonial architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, New York
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Borough. Queens
When was it built? 1750
Architectural style. Dutch colonial architecture, Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79001620 - 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

1,425 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,425 fires within 5 miles of Cornell Farmhouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 132 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	896
Arson/incendiarism	132
Smoking	90
Natural	86
Power generation/transmission/distribution	69
Recreation and ceremony	51
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Debris and open burning	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Queens 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 Cornell Farmhouse: 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
	Bay Shore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1947 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lynbrook 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
1969 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
Douglaston Hill Historic District	1.9 miles	2000
Long Island Motor Parkway	2.0 miles	2002
Allen-Beville House	2.3 miles	1983
Cornelius Van Wyck House	2.4 miles	1983
Douglaston Historic District	2.5 miles	2005
Fort Totten Officers' Club	4.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001620 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 108 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.