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Elisha Gilbert House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

“Elisha Gilbert House is a historic home located at New Lebanon in Columbia County, New York. Built in 1794, the home is a massive, two-story frame Federal style residence with a gambrel roof and a five-bay facade with a center entrance pavilion and clapboard siding.”

Wikipedia article Elisha Gilbert House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Gilbert, Elisha, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. US 20, New Lebanon, 12125
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Town. New Lebanon town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 84002098 - 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

1888 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Elisha Gilbert House, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Elisha Gilbert House, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Elisha Gilbert House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined88
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural8
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 Elisha Gilbert House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lebanon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Several trees and wires were downed throughout the Town of New Lebanon including Route 20, Route 22 and Mill Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees and wires were downed in the Town of New Lebanon.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Tree was downed onto a car.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees were reported down in New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees and wires were reported down in New Lebanon due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in New Lebanon.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees were reported down in New Lebanon and also in Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNew Lebanon-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Donnelly House1.6 miles2000
New Lebanon District No. 8 School1.8 miles2021
Gov. Samuel J. Tilden Monument2.3 miles2006
Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm2.3 miles2019
Lebanon Springs Union Free School2.4 miles1991
Church of Our Saviour2.5 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002098 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.