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Photograph of Hamilton Park Community Houses
Photograph by Robert Haber, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hamilton Park Community Houses

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Hamilton Park Community Houses are three historic homes located at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. The Pritchard House is a large, 2-story L-shaped brick building coated with rusticated stucco.”

Wikipedia article Hamilton Park Community Houses, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond 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 listing

  • Address. 105 Franklin Ave., 66 Harvard Ave., and 32 Park Pl., New York, 10301
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Staten Island
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83003437 - 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

1898 to 1986

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 Hamilton Park Community Houses, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet covering Hamilton Park Community Houses, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,478 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,478 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton Park Community Houses between 1992 and 2020, burning about 722 acres in total. 150 started naturally. 90 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/undetermined1008
Natural150
Arson/incendiarism90
Smoking78
Equipment and vehicle use52
Debris and open burning40
Fireworks33
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton Park Community Houses: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite. 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
Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J.GraphiteUnknown
Cooper & Hewitt MineIronPast Producer
New Dorp MineIronPast Producer
Tyson MineIronPast Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Building at One Pendleton Placeunder 500 feet2014
Christ Church New Brighton (Episcopal)0.2 miles2004
New Brighton Village Hall0.3 miles1978
Unitarian Church of the Redeemer0.4 miles2026
Neville House0.5 miles1977
Sailors' Snug Harbor National Register District0.6 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond CountyAll 63 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.