Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York by Jane Byrd McCall and Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and colleagues, Bolton Brown (artist) and Hervey White (writer). It is the oldest operating arts and crafts colony in America.”
Wikipedia article Byrdcliffe Colony, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
National Register reference number.79001643- 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
1892 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18921997
Fires near this property
184 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Byrdcliffe Historic District
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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
84
Smoking
25
Natural
16
Debris and open burning
16
Arson/incendiarism
15
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Recreation and ceremony
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Other causes
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Byrdcliffe Historic District: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Woodstock, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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.
Severe thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moved through the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York during the late afternoon hours of June 14th. Torrential rains accompanied the thunderstorms which resulted in flash flooding in parts of Dutchess and Ulster Counties. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in parts of Dutchess and Columbia Counties. Flash flooding occurred in the Town of Ulster where buildings were flooded with several feet of water and across parts of Dutchess County where three to four inches of rain fell in a two to three hour period.
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.
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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