Leo Friedlander Studio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Leo Friedlander Studio is a historic home and artist's studio located in Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1908 by the Roman Bronze Works and is a building built of concrete block covered in stucco.”
Wikipedia article Leo Friedlander Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester 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.
Listed as. Friedlander, Leo, Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 825 W. Hartsdale Rd., White Plains, 10607
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. building
Town. Greenburgh town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 82003416 - 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

884 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 884 fires within 5 miles of Leo Friedlander Studio between 2000 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 85 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	500
Arson/incendiarism	85
Smoking	80
Natural	70
Recreation and ceremony	66
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Debris and open burning	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Other causes	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 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Smoking	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	Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Leo Friedlander Studio: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
(Facility) Chester Metals Division Refinery	Silver	Plant
Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer
Lake Street Granite Mine	Granite	Producer
Lake Street Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Plains, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 8 flash flood, 2 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
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	$10,000	Trees were reported down throughout the town of White Plains.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	East White Plains	$7,500	A large tree and power lines were reported down on Anderson Hill Road in Purchase.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	East White Plains	$5,000	Trees, large tree branches and power lines were reported down at the intersection of Upland and Woodcrest Avenues just northeast of White Plains.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	$3,000	A few trees were reported down in White Plains.
July 2025	Flash Flood	East White Plains	-	Multiple vehicles stranded on I 287 and the Taconic Parkway due to flooding.
May 2017	Flash Flood	East White Plains	-	A few roads in White Plains were impassable due to flooding.
December 2014	Flood	East White Plains	-	The Bronx River Pkwy. was closed between exit 23 and exit 21 in White Plains due to flooding.
July 2014	Flash Flood	East White Plains	-	Bloomingdale Rd. was closed in White Plains due to flooding.
August 2011	Hail	White Plains	-	Large apple size (three inch) hail was reported in White Plains.
August 2011	Hail	White Plains	-	Half-dollar to golf ball size hail was reported in White Plains.
June 2007	Hail	White Plains	-	Hail from penny to almost quarter size reported.
June 2007	Flash Flood	White Plains	-	Heavy rains caused a mudslide which closed portions of the Bronx Rover Parkway and Playland Parkway. Numerous rescues preformed frompersons trapped in flooded vehicles on I-287, I-684, under the Boston Post Road Bridge on the Playland Parkway, and South Broadway in White Plains.
November 2006	Flash Flood	White Plains	-	Heavy rain across Southern Westchester County caused flash flooding including the closing of the Bronx River Parkway from White Plains to Yonkers, the Saw Mill River Parkway at various locations, and the Hutchison River Parkway. Numerous other side streets were flooded as well.
July 2005	Flash Flood	White Plains	-	Extremely heavy rainfall rates caused flash flooding to occur on I-287. The highway was covered with several feet of water and mud in spots. Several motorists were rescued as the rapidly rising water swamped their cars during rush hour. A police inspector was noted as saying that there were manhole covers floating down streets with several cars submerged. Water was seen cascading down several levels of a parking garage like a waterfall.
August 2004	Flash Flood	White Plains	-	The Bronx River Parkway flooded. Several rescues of people occurred from cars.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	Trees were downed.
September 2004	Flash Flood	White Plains	-	Bronx River Parkway at White Plains closed due to flash flooding.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	As a severe thunderstorm moved southeast, it produced high winds that downed tree limbs.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down several large tree limbs in White Plains and numerous large trees in East White Plains. The winds and falling trees also downed several power lines in the area, causing about 4600 residents to lose power. The Bronx River Parkway was closed for approximately two hours after a large tree had fallen and blocked the road.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	Thunderstorms downed several trees and power lines.
July 2012	Hail	White Plains	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	White Plains	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	White Plains	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	White Plains	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	White Plains	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	White Plains	-	no account filed
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	White Plains	-	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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1932 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery	0.9 miles	1983
Romer-Van Tassel House	1.0 miles	1994
Evangeline Booth House	1.5 miles	2011
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery	1.5 miles	2012
Odell House	1.7 miles	1973
Jacob Purdy House	1.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003416 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.