Cornelius Van Wyck House

Built in 1735 (Dutch colonial 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 Cornelius Van Wyck House is an 18th-century Dutch Colonial home located on the shore of Little Neck Bay in the Douglaston section of Queens in New York City. The house overlooks Little Neck Bay and is well known for both its age and architecture, and especially for its original owners.”
Wikipedia article Cornelius Van Wyck House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1735, Dutch colonial 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.
Listed as. Van Wyck, Cornelius, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 126 West Dr., New York, 11363
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Borough. Queens
When was it built? 1735
Architectural style. Dutch colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 83004149 - 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 Cornelius Van Wyck House, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Cornelius Van Wyck House, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,386 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,386 fires within 5 miles of Cornelius Van Wyck House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. 91 started naturally. 77 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	948
Natural	91
Smoking	90
Arson/incendiarism	77
Recreation and ceremony	61
Debris and open burning	35
Power generation/transmission/distribution	34
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2014	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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cornelius Van Wyck 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bay Shore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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 Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Flushing 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 Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Flushing 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
Allen-Beville House	0.1 miles	1983
Douglaston Historic District	0.3 miles	2005
Douglaston Hill Historic District	0.5 miles	2000
Fort Totten Officers' Club	1.8 miles	1986
Cornell Farmhouse	2.4 miles	1979
Long Island Motor Parkway	2.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004149 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.