Chelsea Grammar School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The former Chelsea Grammar School is located on Liberty Street in Chelsea, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is an intact one-room schoolhouse from the late 19th century, when the hamlet was a thriving Hudson River port.”
Wikipedia article Chelsea Grammar School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Liberty St., Chelsea, 12512
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Chelsea MRA
Town. Wappinger town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 87001371 - 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 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Chelsea Grammar School, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Chelsea Grammar School, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

687 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 687 fires within 5 miles of Chelsea Grammar School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 86 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	379
Arson/incendiarism	86
Smoking	69
Natural	45
Debris and open burning	30
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Recreation and ceremony	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	3

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
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Chelsea Grammar School: 27 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clinton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarries No. Hj-018	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-021	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-025	Stone	Producer
Cedar Cliff Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Clinton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Limestone Rock Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chelsea, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
September 2021	Flash Flood	Chelsea	$300,000	Several roads were closed in the town of Fishkill and city of Beacon due to flash flooding. The County Executive declared a state of emergency and restricted all non-essential travel due to the flooding.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Chelsea	$300,000	Several roads were closed in the town of Wappinger due to flash flooding. The County Executive declared a state of emergency and restricted all non-essential travel due to the flooding.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chelsea	-	A tree was downed on wires on Old Castle Point Road near Castle Point.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Chelsea	-	A tree was downed near Castle Point.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chelsea	-	Trees down onto wires in Chelsea.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chelsea	-	Trees were downed along Chelsea Road.
June 2011	Hail	Chelsea	-	Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Castle Point.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Wappinger Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Wappingers Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Saint Mark's Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	1987
Capt. Moses W. Collyer House	0.2 miles	1987
Cornelius Carman House	0.2 miles	1987
Stony Kill Farm	1.6 miles	1980
Mount Gulian	2.1 miles	1982
Zion Pilgrim Methodist Episcopal Church Site	2.2 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001371 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.