Photograph of Capitol Theatre — Photograph by Koskenart, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Capitol Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Capitol Theatre is a historic theater located in the village of Port Chester, Westchester County, New York. It was designed by noted theater architect Thomas W.”
Wikipedia article Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 147-151 Westchester Ave., Port Chester, 10573
When was it listed? June 1984
Category. building
Town. Rye town
Architect. Thomas W. Lamb
National Register reference number. 84003426 - 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

274 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Capitol Theater between 2000 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 23 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	150
Smoking	42
Arson/incendiarism	23
Recreation and ceremony	20
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Capitol Theater: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Christiano Oak Ridge Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer	1833
Christiano Hamilton Avenue Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	1873
Ritch Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Unknown
Voorhis Diorite Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Christiano Hamilton Avenue Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Chritiano Oak Ridge Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Ritch Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Voorhis Quarry	Granite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Chester, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Chester	$3,000	A few trees were reported down in Port Chester.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Port Chester	-	Approximately 20 inches of standing water was reported on Fox Island Rd. in Port Chester. Basements of residences on Midland Ave. in Rye were also flooded with water. The ASOS at Westchester County Airport in White Plains recorded 1.39 inches of rain.
June 1997	Lightning	Port Chester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1892 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
1944 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:31680
1960 USGS Glenville quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Putnam and Mellor Engine and Hose Company Firehouse	0.1 miles	1983
St. Peter's Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	2006
US Post Office-Port Chester	0.2 miles	1989
Life Savers Building	0.3 miles	1985
Bush-Lyon Homestead	0.8 miles	1982
US Post Office-Rye	1.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.