House at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“House at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue is a historic home located at Sea Cliff in Nassau County, New York. It was built in 1884 and is a clapboard house with a square plan and cross-gabled roof in the Italianate style.”
Wikipedia article House at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1988 · 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. 285 Sea Cliff Ave., Sea Cliff, 11579
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Sea Cliff Summer Resort TR
Town. Oyster Bay town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88000005 - 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

273 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of House at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue between 2000 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 18 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	120
Smoking	50
Power generation/transmission/distribution	29
Natural	18
Arson/incendiarism	18
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of House at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.	Tungsten	Unknown
Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Washington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Washington Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sea Cliff, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sea Cliff	$7,500	Ten trees were reported down, at least one large one near the corner of Sea Cliff and Carpenter Avenues, were reported down in the Village of Sea Cliff.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sea Cliff	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sea Cliff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Central Hall	under 500 feet	1988
Sea Cliff Firehouse	0.1 miles	2003
House at 115 Central Avenue	0.1 miles	1988
House at 290 Eighth Avenue	0.1 miles
House at 103 Roslyn Avenue	0.1 miles	1988
St. Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church	0.1 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.