Photograph of House at 20 Center Street — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

House at 37 Center Street

Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The house at 20 Center Street, formerly 37 Center Street, in Highland Falls, New York, United States is a frame house built in the mid-19th century in the Greek Revival architectural style.”
Wikipedia article House at 20 Center Street, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival architecture.

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. 37 Center St., Highland Falls, 10928
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Hudson Highlands MRA
Town. Highlands town
When was it built? 1850
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82001220 - 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

365 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 365 fires within 5 miles of House at 37 Center Street between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 42 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	209
Arson/incendiarism	42
Natural	37
Smoking	22
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Debris and open burning	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of House at 37 Center Street: 16 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Sulfur, Sulfur, Stone. 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
Bog Meadow Pond Deposit	Zirconium	Occurrence
Canopus Mine	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1912
Canopus Nelson Magnetite Mine	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	1912
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Cotton Rock Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
North Highlands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phillips Mine	Molybdenum, Uranium	Occurrence	Replacement
Phillips Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1866

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Falls, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 11 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
September 2000	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	$500,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Falls	$6,000	Large tree fell onto a house on Cedar Lane.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Falls	$5,000	Numerous reports of trees and wires down around town...including trees down at the intersection of 9W and State Route 293 and 9W and State Route 218.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Falls	$3,000	Trees were reported down in Highland Falls, including along Route 9W and Route 118.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Falls	$2,000	Wires down on Walnut Avenue.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Falls	$1,000	Wires were reported down in the southbound lane of US Route 9W near Highland Falls.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Multiple people trapped in RVs at the Highland Falls RV Park. Flooding is ongoing and Fire Department is responding.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Route 9W is washed out in both directions. Boulders blocking the roadway between Fort Montgomery and Highland Falls.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Significant flooding ongoing on main Street. Multiple cars have flowing water up to the tops of them. Swift water rescues ongoing.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Two people trapped in vehicle submerged in flood waters on Eagle Valley Road. Fire Department Responding.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Spotter video shows Route 9W at 218 Junction flooded and impassible.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Two persons trapped in vehicle in flood waters. Fire Department responding.
August 2010	Heavy Rain	Highland Falls	-	A car traveling on Route 9W in Highland Falls hydroplaned from the heavy rain, spun off the road, hit a rock and then hit the guard rail. A passenger in the back seat, who was pregnant, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at Cornwall Hospital. Two other passengers also sustained minor injuries. A Cocorahs observer in Cold Spring, 4 miles NE of the accident in Putnam County, reported 5.29 inches of total rainfall.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	All lanes were closed northbound and southbound on NY 218 between Cornwall-on-Hudson and West Point due to flooding.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	Route 218 was closed in both directions between West Point Academy and the Cornwall line due to flooding. A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported a storm total rainfall amount of 2.00 inches in West Point.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	State Highway 218 was closed in both directions between Cornwall and West Point due to flooding.
October 2005	Flash Flood	Highland Falls	-	no account filed
September 2003	Heavy Rain	Highland Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

16 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 quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000 - 6 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
Highland Falls Village Hall	0.1 miles	1982
St. Mark's Baptist Church	0.2 miles	2004
First Presbyterian Church of Highland Falls	0.2 miles	1982
Squirrels, The	0.2 miles	1982
House at 116 Main Street	0.3 miles	1982
Parry House	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 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.