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Photograph of Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church
Photograph by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church

Built in 1860 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church, is an historic church at 88 Hanson Place between South Oxford Street and South Portland Avenue in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, which was built in 1857-60 as the Hanson Place Baptist Church. It was designed by George Penchard in the Early Romanesque Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1860, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 88 Hanson Pl., New York, 11217
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Brooklyn
  • When was it built? 1860
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80002631 - 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

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

1,681 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,681 fires within 5 miles of Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 143 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/undetermined1122
Arson/incendiarism143
Natural99
Smoking96
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use63
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Fireworks29
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church: 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Molybdenum, Beryllium. 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
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence
Manhattan Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite DepositIronOccurrence
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.IronUnknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.LeadUnknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.LeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002631 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings CountyAll 207 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.