Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“The Shell House is a historic home located at 26 Westland Drive on East Island in Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a guest cottage and home of the yacht captain on the Matinecock Point Estate of J.”
Wikipedia article The Shell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88000600- 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
179 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Shell House, The
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 17 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
79
Smoking
40
Arson/incendiarism
17
Debris and open burning
10
Natural
10
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Recreation and ceremony
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
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. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Shell House, The: 2 past producers, 1 unknown.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Glen Cove, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 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.
Multiple trees fell at Morgan Memorial Park, including one onto a Gazebo, which injured one person under it, and a second on a car, injuring the occupant.
A weak and short-lived F1 tornado touched down around 945 pm EDT in Glen Cove. The tornado formed in a thunderstorm that formed on an outflow boundary produced by a line of thunderstorms over Long Island Sound. The tornado moved from northwest to southeast and was estimated to be on the ground for only a minute or two. However, it caused considerable damage to many of the large trees in the area. Many large trees in the neighborhood to the south of the Welwyn Preserve came down and did considerable damage to homes and property. Damage was reported as far southeast as North Shore University Hospital. There were no known injuries.
Nassau County Emergency Management reports multiple vehicles stuck in flood waters with ongoing rescues in Glen Cove, Port Washington, and Locust Valley.
Glen Cove High School was evacuated due to flooding. Several roads were closed in Bayville due to flooding. Some residents also had basement flooding.||Total rainfall amounts received ranged from 2.92 inches in Malverne to 5.31 inches in East Meadow.
Heavy rain caused a mudslide and property damage between 119 Shore Rd. in Glen Cove and 11 Prospect Ave. in Sea Cliff.||Total rainfall amounts reported across Nassau County were between 4.66 inches in Levittown and 6.18 inches in Lynbrook.
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.
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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