Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Pruyn House is a historic home located in the hamlet of Newtonville within the town of Colonie in Albany County, New York. It is a two-story, rectangular five bay wide, center entrance dwelling in a late Federal and early Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Casparus F. Pruyn House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 234 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.85002744- 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
1893 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931994
Fires near this property
1,425 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,425 fires within 5 miles of Casparus F. Pruyn House
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,267 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 206 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
880
Arson/incendiarism
206
Smoking
93
Debris and open burning
86
Natural
78
Equipment and vehicle use
47
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Recreation and ceremony
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,765 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Casparus F. Pruyn House between 1760 and 1975: 2,694 Animalia, 1,356 Fungi, 653 Plantae, 36 Unrecorded, 16 Chromista, 6 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. Clapp and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Casparus F. Pruyn House: 11 producers, 7 past producers, 1 plant.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Colonie, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 lightning, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Heavy rain, combined with frozen ground and snowmelt led to flooding in several portions of Albany county. ||Flooding was reported at the corner of Fuller Road and Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza, which resulted in a road closure.||Flooding was also reported on Central Avenue, at the Albany City line, which resulted in two lane closures.||In addition, the southbound lane of Osborne Road in Loudonville was under water and closed.||Miller Road near Coeymans was also closed, as Coeymans Creek overflowed its banks.||Several other roads were reportedly closed due to flooding in Colonie and Guilderland. One home in Westmere on Willey Street sustained damage as 4 feet of water entered the basement, ruining two boats, a woodworking shop, furnace and hot water heater. Preliminary damage estimates were $50,000.
Heavy rain led to widespread ponding of water across eastern and central Albany County. This was exacerbated by clogged storm drains, which were blocked by ice.||Areas which suffered from the greatest ponding of water included Albany, Colonie, and Guilderland.
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.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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