Built in 1895 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Estherwood is a late 19th-century mansion located on the campus of The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States. It was the home of industrial tycoon James Jennings McComb, who supported Masters financially in its early years when his daughters attended.”
Wikipedia article Estherwood (Dobbs Ferry, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1895, Renaissance Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.79001646- 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
643 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 643 fires within 5 miles of Estherwood and Carriage House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 920 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 71 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
374
Arson/incendiarism
71
Natural
61
Recreation and ceremony
50
Smoking
33
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Power generation/transmission/distribution
15
Debris and open burning
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Other causes
4
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
4 workings within 5 miles of Estherwood and Carriage House: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
Dobbs Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind.
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.
Local police reported a large tree in Dobbs Ferry was knocked over during this storm. Local newspapers reported a path of downed trees, tree limbs and power lines that stretched from the Hudson River to Long Island Sound across central Westchester County. As a result, about 20,000 residents in the county lost power.
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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