Steinway House

Built in 1858 (Renaissance Revival 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 Steinway Mansion is a historic Italianate and Renaissance Revival villa located at 18-33 41st Street in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Constructed between 1857 and 1858 by Benjamin Pike Jr., a Manhattan-based scientific instrument maker, it originally sat on a 70-acre estate along the Long Island Sound.”
Wikipedia article Steinway Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1858, Renaissance 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. 18-22 41st St., New York, 11105
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Borough. Queens
When was it built? 1858
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83001780 - 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 Steinway House, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Steinway House, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,378 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,378 fires within 5 miles of Steinway House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 575 acres in total. 149 started naturally. 115 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	1635
Smoking	169
Natural	149
Arson/incendiarism	115
Equipment and vehicle use	82
Debris and open burning	75
Recreation and ceremony	70
Misuse of fire by a minor	69
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Steinway House: 10 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Garnet, Beryllium, Gemstone. 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
102nd St & 4th Ave Garnet Deposit	Garnet, Gemstone	Occurrence
155th St & 10th Ave Garnet Deposit	Garnet, Zirconium	Occurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave Deposit	Iron, Garnet, Titanium	Occurrence
Manhattan Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
National Gypsum/ Bronx Mill	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
159th St & 11th Ave Beryl Deposit	Beryllium	Occurrence
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl Deposit	Beryllium	Occurrence
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
55th/56th Sts & 3rd Ave Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000

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
Lent Homestead and Cemetery	0.5 miles	1984
Marine Air Terminal	0.7 miles	1982
Bohemian Hall and Park	1.1 miles	2001
Astoria Center of Israel	1.5 miles	2009
Trinity Lutheran Church	1.5 miles	2008
Jackson Heights Historic District	1.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001780 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 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.