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N. J. Felix House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Felix House is a historic home located in Asharoken, Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a four-bay, shingled and clapboard residence with a steeply pitched hipped roof in an eclectic combination of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.”

Wikipedia article N. J. Felix House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Felix, N. J., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 235 Asharoken Ave., Asharoken, 11768
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Huntington Town MRA
  • Town. Huntington town
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85002523 - 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of N. J. Felix House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural15
Smoking10
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2

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
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLong Island National Wildlife Refuge ComplexTARGRKBCH
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of N. J. Felix House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
West Hills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Hills Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asharoken, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAsharoken$3,000Trees and power lines reported down.
September 2021Flash FloodAsharoken-The Fire Department reported several homes with basement flooding in Eatons Neck.
July 2021Flash FloodAsharoken-Several streets in Centerport were impassable due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

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
Delamater-Bevin Mansion1.0 miles1985
Crest, The1.5 miles2007
Harry E. Donnell House1.5 miles1985
William K. Vanderbilt Estate-Eagles Nest1.6 miles2021
Stanley H. Lowndes House1.6 miles2019
Charles Van Iderstine Mansion1.7 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 338 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.