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Photograph of Chappaqua
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza

Built in 1902 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Chappaqua station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Chappaqua, New York, United States, within the town of New Castle.”

Wikipedia article Chappaqua station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1902, Richardsonian Romanesque.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 200 South Greeley Ave, Chappaqua, 10514
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Greeley, Horace TR
  • Town. New Castle town
  • When was it built? 1902
  • Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
  • National Register reference number. 79003210 - 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

495 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 495 fires within 5 miles of Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza between 2000 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined225
Natural69
Smoking46
Recreation and ceremony40
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Armonk PlantPeatPast ProducerPeat
Ossining AreaVanadium, LeadOccurrenceVanadinite
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappaqua, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2009Thunderstorm WindChappaqua$3,000New York Route 120 was closed between Pine Cliff and Commodore Roads due to downed trees and tree limbs in the town of Chappaqua.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindChappaqua$1,000Tree down on NY 120 at Commodore Road.
September 2023Flash FloodChappaqua-Route 117 closed due to flooding between Orchard Road and North Way.
July 2014Flash FloodChappaqua-North Greeley Ave. was closed in Chappaqua due to flooding.
July 2008Flash FloodChappaqua-The Saw Mill River Parkway was impassable at exit 32. A Skywarn spotter in the town of Chappaqua recorded 1.17 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes between 7 and 8 pm.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindChappaqua-Investigation of the damage by a NWS Meteorologist determined that the damage that occurred was also the result of straight line winds. Estimated wind speeds were at least 70 mph. The most widespread damage observed was from Chappaqua to Bedford Hills to Pound ridge.|
August 2011HailChappaqua-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodChappaqua-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Greeley House0.2 miles1979
Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove0.2 miles1979
Rehoboth0.3 miles1979
Old Chappaqua Historic District0.9 miles1974
Marmaduke Forster House1.7 miles2011
St. John's Episcopal Church1.7 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79003210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 250 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.
  • 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.