Miller's House at Red Mills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Bruyn Estate at Red Mills Farm or "Miller's House at Red Mills Farm" is a historic estate and farm located in Shawangunk in Ulster County, New York. Situated on just under 25 acres, Bruyn Estate has two residential dwellings totaling eight bedrooms.”
Wikipedia article Miller's House at Red Mills, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Red Mills Rd. and Wallkill Ave., Shawangunk, 12566
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Shawangunk Valley MRA
Town. Shawangunk town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83001819 - 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

94 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Miller's House at Red Mills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	38
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2010	Natural	4.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	UPPER MTN RD

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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 Miller's House at Red Mills: 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
	Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Dill Farm	1.2 miles	1983
William Decker House	1.4 miles	1983
Thomas Jansen House	1.9 miles	1983
Pearl Street Schoolhouse	1.9 miles	1983
Van Keuren, Benjamin House Ruin	2.2 miles	2000
Johannes Decker Farm	2.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001819 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.