John E. Parry House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Parry House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a rectangular frame residence that incorporates transitional Queen Anne / Colonial Revival-style design elements.”
Wikipedia article John E. Parry House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Warren 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Parry, John E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 146 Warren St., Glens Falls, 12801
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Potter, Ephraim B., Buildings TR
City. Glens Falls city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. Ephraim Potter
National Register reference number. 84003382 - 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

1895 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering John E. Parry House, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering John E. Parry House, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

604 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 604 fires within 5 miles of John E. Parry House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 99 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	302
Arson/incendiarism	99
Smoking	57
Recreation and ceremony	38
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Natural	29
Debris and open burning	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of John E. Parry House: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. 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	Recorded
Morgan Lumber & Lime Company Quarry	Limestone, General, Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	1882, 1975
Chestertown Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Glen Falls Quarry & Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Chesterton Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Iuliucci Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ridge Road No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Chestertown Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Glens Falls Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Glens Falls Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glens Falls, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 31 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 3 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2000	Flash Flood	Glens Falls	$30,000	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	$25,000	no account filed
June 2001	Lightning	Glens Falls	$20,000	no account filed
June 2001	Lightning	Glens Falls	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	$10,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Glens Falls	$9,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	West Glens Falls	$5,000	Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern New York ahead of a low pressure system which was moving into the area during the afternoon hours of July 30th. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines with Washington and Herkimer Counties being hardest hit. In Colonie torrential rains resulted in an urban flood as storm drains backed up.
June 2001	Lightning	Glens Falls	$5,000	no account filed
March 2008	Flood	Glens Falls	$1,000	Three feet of water was reported in Kensington Elementary School in Glens Falls. In addition, Kensington Road was closed due to the high water.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	$500	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A large tree and wires were downed near the intersection of Coolidge Avenue and Crandall Street in the City of Glens Falls.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees were downed at the Hannaford Supermarket and near Quaker Road in Queensbury.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Wires were downed on Warren Street in Glens Falls.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree was down blocking Walnut Street.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Measured gust at the Glens Falls NYS Mesonet.
August 2022	Flood	Glens Falls	-	A number of side roads and streets around the City of Glens Falls were flooded with several inches of water, some of which included Maple Street and Sherman Avenue.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees and wires were downed in the City of Glens Falls.
June 2021	Funnel Cloud	Glens Falls	-	A funnel cloud was spotted north of the observer looking toward Lake George.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees were downed onto wires.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree was downed on Ridge Street near the Queensbury Hotel.
June 2019	Flood	Glens Falls	-	A roadway was flooded in low lying and poor drainage areas.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Wires were downed, resulting in a structure fire.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree was down blocking a roadway.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees and wires were downed in front of a house.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree was leaning on wires.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees and wires were downed.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree was leaning on wires.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Glens Falls	-	Route 32 was closed near the Haskell Avenue intersection due to high water.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree was downed onto a car due to thunderstorm winds at the Crandall Library on Glen Street in Glens Falls.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A garage was pulled off its foundation and part of it was nearly 30 feet up a nearby tree due to thunderstorm winds on Fowler Avenue in Glens Falls. Several trees were also downed on the property as well.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Several trees and power lines were downed on Meadowbrook Drive in Queensbury due to thunderstorm winds. Trees fell on two homes and one car and a few of the trees were lying across the roadway. The road was closed between Ridge Street and Quaker Road due to the damage.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Damage occurred to a roof of a garage on Flandreaux Avenue in Glens Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Numerous trees were downed and across Mac Arthur Drive in Glens Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Two large pine trees fell on Lexington Avenue in Glens Falls due to thunderstorm winds. One of the trees fell on a home, but damage was not serious.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree and wires were reported down on Bay Street in Glens Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A large twelve inch diameter tree limb fell from a tree at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Crandall Street in Glens Falls due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Hail	Glens Falls	-	Quarter size hail was reported via Twitter during a thunderstorm in Glens Falls.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	A tree and limbs were down on house on Katherine Street in Glens Falls as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees and wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds about 1 mile northeast of Glens Falls.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees were reported down on Route 9 approximately 2 miles northwest of Glens Falls due to strong thunderstorm winds.
October 2010	Flood	Glens Falls	-	Standing water was reported at the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Elm Street in the city of Glens Falls due to heavy rains.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Glens Falls	-	Law enforcement personnel reported that numerous roads in Glens Falls were closed due to extensive flash flooding.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Glens Falls	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Glens Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1895 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1938 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

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
Hoopes House	under 500 feet	1984
Zopher Delong House	under 500 feet	1984
Hyde House	under 500 feet	1984
Helen Wing House	0.1 miles	1984
Cunningham House	0.1 miles	1984
Three Squares Historic District	0.1 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003382 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren County	All 76 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.