Washington School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The former Washington School is located on Croton Avenue in the village of Ossining, New York, United States. It was built in 1907 in the Beaux-Arts style, one of two in the village to use it.”
Wikipedia article Washington School (Ossining, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1987 · 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, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 83 Croton Ave., Ossining, 10562
When was it listed? February 1987
Category. building
Town. Ossining town
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 87000080 - 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

498 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 498 fires within 5 miles of Washington School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 58 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/undetermined	255
Natural	58
Recreation and ceremony	40
Debris and open burning	36
Smoking	35
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Washington School: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. 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
Nelson Property Deposit	Corundum	Prospect
Ossining Area	Vanadium, Lead	Occurrence	Vanadinite
Sing Sing Ag Mine	Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper	Past Producer
Sing Sing Silver Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper Deposit	Copper, Lead	Occurrence
Haverstraw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Haverstraw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ossining, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	1 killed	no account filed
September 2021	Flash Flood	Ossining	$92,600,000	Flash flooding resulted in an estimated $92.6 million in damages across Westchester County. This estimate includes $78 million in FEMA individual assistance to property owners, renters, and businesses and an additional $14.6 million in damages to Westchester County government infrastructure.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	$3,000	Multiple tree limbs downed power poles.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	$2,000	Multiple downed trees and power lines were reported along Lower Spring Street.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	$1,000	Tree down and road closure on NY 9A southbound south of Croton Dam Road in Ossining. All lanes closed.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	$1,000	A tree was reported down on New York State Route 9A near Ryder Road.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Ossining	-	DOT reports flooding and road closure on NY 9A southbound at Ryder road. All lanes blocked.
July 2009	Hail	Ossining	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Ossining.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	-	A television camera man reported large diameter trees snapped off. The Journal News showed a tree that fell onto a crushed a truck on Ferris Place in Ossining. Power lines and a transformer were also damaged.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	-	As a line of severe thunderstorms moved southeast, it produced high winds that downed numerous trees and power lines from Ossining northeast to Croton Falls. Local police and newspapers reported numerous trees and power lines downed in Ossining. Several newspapers reported that a large tree toppled over onto a moving car on Route 22 in Croton Falls.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	-	A cold front sweeping across the region generated a line of heavy showers and thunderstorms. Some trees and power lines were downed as strong winds aloft were brought to the surface in the thunderstorms downdraft. Winds gusted between 50 and 60 knots for only a couple of minutes as the outflow generated by the parent storm passed through. Some residents reported that the sky never blackened and there was no thunder or lightning when the actual winds struck.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Ossining	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	-	no account filed
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossining	-	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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:25000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Ossining quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
Downtown Ossining Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.1 miles	2013
Bank for Savings	0.3 miles	1989
First Baptist Church of Ossining	0.3 miles	1973
Highland Cottage	0.4 miles	1982
St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Rectory	0.5 miles	1978
St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Rectory	0.5 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000080 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.