Dutchess Manor

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Dutchess Manor was a restaurant and catering hall located along NY 9D in the Town of Fishkill, New York, United States, between the city of Beacon and Breakneck Ridge. It is one of the most distinctive Hudson Valley buildings in the Second Empire architectural style, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Dutchess Manor, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1982 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 400 Breakneck Rd., Fishkill, 12508
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Hudson Highlands MRA
Town. Fishkill town
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 82001131 - 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

613 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 613 fires within 5 miles of Dutchess Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,505 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 61 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	370
Arson/incendiarism	61
Smoking	43
Natural	43
Recreation and ceremony	38
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	2

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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Dutchess Manor: 21 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Iron. 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
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Hustis Quarry	Titanium	Occurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Chateaugay Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1871
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
West Point Magnetite Vein	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fishkill, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$100,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	$100,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$13,000	no account filed
September 2003	Tornado (F1)	Fishkill	$10,000	A cold front spawned a line of heavy showers across eastern New York during the early morning hours of September 28. A cell broke loose from the line and became a super cell that spawned a tornado of F0-f! intensity across Fishkill, Dutchess County. The length was a little over a mile and the width varied greatly between 25 and 100 yards. Most of the damage was to trees, but some wires were blown down and a transformer blew up. Flying debris shattered a window in a home. No injuries were reported with this tornado.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$10,000	On the evening of May 9, a single cell thunderstorm became severe as it moved over Dutchess county. Wind gusts from the storm knocked large tree limbs and power lines down in the village of Fishkill.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Fishkill area late on the 28th of August. Lightning was responsible for damage to a porch in Binghamton and for starting a fire which caused serious damage to a vacant house in Freehold.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$5,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$4,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm, which developed well ahead of a cold front downed trees and wires in Fishkill.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$4,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Fishkill	$1,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Tree and wires were downed on Palen Road near Hararigan Road resulting in a blocked road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	A tree was downed on the Taconic State Parkway blocking the right northbound lane.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Emergency dispatch reported trees down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	-	Wires were reported down on Route 9 in Fishkill as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	East Fishkill	-	Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Fishkill.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Trees were reported down in East Fishkill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Hail	East Fishkill	-	Nickel size hail was reported in East Fishkill.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Trees were reported down in East Fishkill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Fishkill	-	L Street closed due to flooding.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Fishkill	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Fishkill	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Fishkill	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	East Fishkill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Bannerman's Island Arsenal	0.5 miles	1982
Peter C. DuBois House	1.7 miles	2004
Tioronda Bridge	2.0 miles	1976
Tioronda Estate-Craig House Historic District	2.0 miles	2023
Mount Beacon Incline Railway and Power House	2.5 miles	1982
Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower	2.5 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001131 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.