Wayside Cottage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Wayside Cottage is a historic home located at Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. The earliest part of the house was built about 1720 and is the four-bay-wide, two-bay-deep, south section.”
Wikipedia article Wayside Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

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. 1039 Post Rd., Scarsdale, 10583
When was it listed? May 1981
Category. building
Town. Scarsdale town
National Register reference number. 81000418 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Wayside Cottage, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Wayside Cottage, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

943 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 943 fires within 5 miles of Wayside Cottage between 2000 and 2020, burning about 812 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 87 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	529
Smoking	123
Arson/incendiarism	87
Natural	65
Recreation and ceremony	65
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Debris and open burning	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Other causes	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wayside Cottage: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	(Facility) Chester Metals Division Refinery	Silver	Plant
	Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scarsdale, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2021	Flash Flood	Scarsdale	1 killed	The body of a man was found in Saxon Woods Park in White Plains after he exited his stranded car and was swept away by flood waters.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scarsdale	$3,000	A few trees were reported down in Scarsdale.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Scarsdale	$1,500	A three foot diameter tree was downed at Penn Boulevard and Weaver Street.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Scarsdale	$750	One inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scarsdale	$500	A large tree limb was reported down in Scarsdale.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Scarsdale	-	The southbound Hutchinson River Parkway was closed due to flooding at Exit 13 in White Plains.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Scarsdale	-	Westchester Office of Emergency Management reported that there was up to 5 feet of standing water on some side streets in New Rochelle.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Scarsdale	-	The Bronx River Parkway was closed in both directions between Harney Road and the Sprain Brook Parkway.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scarsdale	-	Trees and power lines down in Scarsdale and Tarrytown.
August 2011	Hail	Scarsdale	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Scarsdale	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Scarsdale	-	no account filed
May 2002	Funnel Cloud	Scarsdale	-	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Scarsdale	-	no account filed
July 1997	Flash Flood	Scarsdale	-	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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000

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
Scarsdale Woman's Club	0.2 miles	2008
Scarsdale Railroad Station	0.8 miles	2000
Caleb Hyatt House	0.8 miles	1973
US Post Office-Scarsdale	1.2 miles	1989
Bronx River Parkway Reservation	1.3 miles	1991
Hartsdale Railroad Station	1.4 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 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.