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Photograph of Allen-Beville House
Photograph by Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Allen-Beville House

Built in 1850 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Allen-Beville House is a historic house on the Little Neck peninsula in the Douglaston neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Constructed between 1848 and 1850, it is one of the few surviving 19th-century structures in Queens built as a farmhouse that survives.”

Wikipedia article Allen-Beville House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1850, Italianate 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. 29 Center Dr., New York, 11363
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Queens
  • When was it built? 1850
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83001760 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Allen-Beville House, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Allen-Beville House, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,369 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,369 fires within 5 miles of Allen-Beville House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 347 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 82 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/undetermined935
Smoking90
Natural86
Arson/incendiarism82
Recreation and ceremony60
Power generation/transmission/distribution35
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Allen-Beville House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bay Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Queens 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cornelius Van Wyck House0.1 miles1983
Douglaston Historic District0.3 miles2005
Douglaston Hill Historic District0.4 miles2000
Fort Totten Officers' Club2.0 miles1986
Cornell Farmhouse2.3 miles1979
Long Island Motor Parkway2.4 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001760 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens CountyAll 108 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.