Dr. Buck-Stevens House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Buck-Stevens House, also known as the Octagon House, is an historic octagonal house located on West Main Street in Brasher Falls, in the town of Brasher, St. It was built between 1855 and 1857 by Dr.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Buck-Stevens House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence 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. W. Main St., Brasher Falls, 13613
When was it listed? May 1982
Category. building
Town. Brasher town
National Register reference number. 82004745 - 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

1906 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dr. Buck-Stevens House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Dr. Buck-Stevens House, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

102 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Buck-Stevens House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 32 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3

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
25 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence 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 Dr. Buck-Stevens House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Elmer Randall Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Elmer Randall Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brasher Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Brasher Falls	$5,000	Trees and branches down on County route 49.
May 2007	Hail	Brasher Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1906 USGS Massena quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Massena quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1946 USGS Brasher Falls quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Brasher Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004745 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence County	All 83 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.