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Pleasant Valley Wine Company

Built in 1860 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Pleasant Valley Wine Company, also known as Great Western Winery, is a historic winery complex located in the Hamlet of Rheims in the Town of Urbana in Steuben County, New York. The complex consists of nine historic buildings constructed of fieldstone.”

Wikipedia article Pleasant Valley Wine Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Steuben County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1860, Renaissance Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • Address. SR 88, Rheims, 14840
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Town. Urbana town
  • When was it built? 1860
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80002773 - 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

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley Wine Company between 1998 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
15 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPIGTAIL FIRE #2
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest RangersURBANA FIRE
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley Wine Company: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
C.Champlin No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Bath PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bath PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Winding Stairs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

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.

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
Germania Wine Cellars0.3 miles2000
Timothy M. Younglove Octagon House0.6 miles2002
Village of Hammondsport Historic District1.5 miles2024
Mallory Mill1.6 miles1999
Hammondsport Union Free School1.6 miles2008
Pulteney Square Historic District1.7 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002773 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Steuben 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.