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Photograph of Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Photograph by Rolfmueller, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Garibaldi Memorial

Built in 1840. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, formerly known as the Garibaldi Memorial, is a c. 1840 Gothic Revival cottage in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York. It was home to inventor and candle maker Antonio Meucci (1808-1889).”

Wikipedia article Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1840.

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. 420 Tompkins Ave., New York, 10305
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Staten Island
  • When was it built? 1840
  • National Register reference number. 80002758 - 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

1898 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Garibaldi Memorial, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Garibaldi Memorial, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,961 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,961 fires within 5 miles of Garibaldi Memorial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 996 acres in total. 181 started naturally. 123 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/undetermined1378
Natural181
Arson/incendiarism123
Smoking96
Equipment and vehicle use53
Debris and open burning52
Fireworks35
Recreation and ceremony17
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Garibaldi Memorial: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Cooper & Hewitt MineIronPast Producer
New Dorp MineIronPast Producer
Tyson MineIronPast Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

17 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
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto0.2 miles2000
McFarlane-Bredt House0.5 miles1983
Elizabeth Alice Austen House0.6 miles1970
Boardman-Mitchell House0.8 miles2012
Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen Park0.8 miles1980
Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer Street1.0 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002758 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond CountyAll 63 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.