Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Chapel House is a two-story, Arts and Crafts-style house built in 1910 and located in Guilderland, New York on the southern edge of the Uptown Campus of the University at Albany.”
Wikipedia article Chapel House (Guilderland, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82001057- 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
1893 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931994
Fires near this property
1,182 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,182 fires within 5 miles of Chapel House
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,227 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 155 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
787
Arson/incendiarism
155
Smoking
71
Debris and open burning
46
Natural
46
Equipment and vehicle use
40
Power generation/transmission/distribution
16
Railroad operations and maintenance
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Recreation and ceremony
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,522 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Chapel House between 1760 and 1975: 3,157 Animalia, 1,517 Fungi, 778 Plantae, 34 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 12 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Chapel House: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Guilderland, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Wires were reported down on Kings Road between Morris Road and Curry Road as well as on Siver Road between East Old State Road and East Lydius Street in Guilderland.
Flash flooding occurred at a couple of locations. Western Avenue was closedat Fuller Road due to flooding. And Lishakill Road was flooded where it intersects with Consaul Road. A spotter in the vicinity of Lishakill Road, reported2.85 inches of rainfall in 70 minutes about 8 PM EST.
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.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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