Richardson's Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Richardson's Tavern is a historic Erie Canal inn and tavern located in the hamlet of Bushnell's Basin in Perinton, Monroe County, New York. Believed to be the only remaining establishment from the canal's earliest years, it dates to about 1818 when it was a stop on the stage coach route along the Irondequoit Valley and Irondequoit Creek, between Rochester and Canandaigua.”
Wikipedia article Richardson's Canal House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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. 1474 Marsh Rd., Perinton, 14534
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Town. Perinton town
National Register reference number. 80002652 - 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

429 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 429 fires within 5 miles of Richardson's Tavern between 2001 and 2020, burning about 252 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 42 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	224
Debris and open burning	50
Smoking	48
Arson/incendiarism	42
Natural	33
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Richardson's Tavern: 6 producers, 4 past producers. 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Deer Run Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Deer Run Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Genesee Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mendon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mendon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pittsford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pittsford Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Saxby Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Spezio Industries Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Victor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1900 USGS Macedon quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1932 USGS Fairport quadrangle1:24000
1934 USGS Fairport quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Fairport quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Fairport quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Fairport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Thomas Youngs House	2.0 miles	1993
Thomas L. Hulburt House	2.5 miles	2016
Pittsford Village Historic District	2.8 miles	1984
Phoenix Building	2.8 miles	1974
Martin & Andrew Sperbeck House	2.8 miles	2022
Pittsford Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.8 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002652 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.