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Photograph of Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House
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Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House is a historic residence dating back to the early 18th century located on the Davenport Neck peninsula in New Rochelle, New York. The house is the oldest residential structure in New Rochelle.”

Wikipedia article Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1986 · 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. Lispenard--Rodman--Davenport House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 180 Davenport Ave., New Rochelle, 10805
  • When was it listed? September 1986
  • Category. building
  • City. New Rochelle city
  • National Register reference number. 86002637 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

731 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 731 fires within 5 miles of Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined478
Smoking81
Natural53
Arson/incendiarism47
Recreation and ceremony31
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Rochelle, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 3 lightning, 3 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
August 2008LightningNew Rochelle$15,000Lightning struck the steeple of New Rochelle High School, causing significant damage.
July 1996LightningNew Rochelle$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Rochelle$2,000Multiple trees were reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Rochelle-Wires down at multiple locations including: North Avenue at Quaker Ridge Road, Fairview Place, and Franklin Avenue.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Rochelle-no account filed
April 1999LightningNew Rochelle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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
Davenport Houseunder 500 feet1980
Wildcliff0.4 miles2002
Leland Castle0.6 miles1976
First Presbyterian Church and Pintard, Lewis, House0.8 miles1979
Pioneer Building0.8 miles1983
US Post Office-New Rochelle0.9 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002637 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 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.
  • 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.