Roxy Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Roxy Hotel is a historic hotel located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It is a red brick structure consisting of two sections: a three-story, eight bay main block and a two-story, four bay side wing.”
Wikipedia article Roxy Hotel (Cape Vincent), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1985 · 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.
Address. 310 Broadway, Cape Vincent, 13618
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Cape Vincent Town and Village MRA
Town. Cape Vincent town
National Register reference number. 85002472 - 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

45 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Roxy Hotel between 2003 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Roxy Hotel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cape Vincent Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cape Vincent, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 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 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cape Vincent	$15,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cape Vincent	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cape Vincent	$5,000	Trees and powerlines downed in Cape Vincent.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cape Vincent	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cape Vincent	$2,000	Trees down to the southwest of Cape Vincent.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

6 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 Cape Vincent quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Cape Vincent North quadrangle1:31680
1944 USGS Cape Vincent quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Cape Vincent North quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Cape Vincent quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
James Buckley House	under 500 feet	1985
John Borland House	under 500 feet	1985
Lewis House	0.1 miles	1985
Otis Starkey House	0.2 miles	1985
Glen Building	0.2 miles	1985
First Presbyterian Society of Cape Vincent	0.2 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002472 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.