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LeRay Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“LeRay Hotel, also known as Hoover Brick Hotel, is a historic hotel located at Evans Mills in Jefferson County, New York. It was completed in 1828 and is a two-story, Federal style brick structure with a shingled gable roof.”

Wikipedia article LeRay Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main and Noble Sts., Evans Mills, 13637
  • When was it listed? October 1982
  • Category. building
  • Town. Le Ray town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82001175 - 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

91 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of LeRay Hotel between 2001 and 2019, burning about 70 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 LeRay Hotel: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grass Pond OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evans Mills, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEvans Mills$15,000Law enforcement reported wires down by thunderstorm winds across Route 11 and Waddington.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEvans Mills$10,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEvans Mills$7,000no account filed
July 2007HailEvans Mills$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 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

2 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
LeRay Mansion3.4 miles1974
Carter Street Schoolhouse No. 217.5 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001175 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 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.