Newcomb-Brown Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“The Newcomb-Brown Estate is located at the junction of the US 44 highway and Brown Road in Pleasant Valley, New York, United States. It is a brick structure built in the 18th century just before the Revolution and modified slightly by later owners but generally intact.”
Wikipedia article Newcomb-Brown Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess 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

Listed as. Newcomb--Brown Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Brown Rd. at US 44, Pleasant Valley, 12569
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Town. Pleasant Valley town
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 88001704 - 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

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Newcomb-Brown Estate, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Newcomb-Brown Estate, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

181 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Newcomb-Brown Estate between 1999 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 20 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	102
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	20
Natural	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Newcomb-Brown Estate: 18 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Clay, Clay. 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
Pleasant Valley Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Limestone Quarry No. Hj-0.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pleasant Valley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer	Chert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer	Chert
Limestone Quarry No. Hj-005	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Valley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Valley	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Salt Point quadrangle1:24000 - 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
Innisfree	1.8 miles	2019
Lynfeld	2.3 miles	1987
Bloomvale Historic District	3.2 miles	1991
Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	4.8 miles	1989
Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery	5.1 miles	1989
Thorne Memorial School	5.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001704 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.