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Photograph of Downtown Ossining Historic District
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Bank for Savings

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Downtown Ossining Historic District is located at the central crossroads of Ossining, New York, United States, and the village's traditional business district known as the Crescent. Among its many late 19th- and early 20th-century commercial buildings are many of the village's major landmarks - three bank buildings, four churches, its village hall, former post office and high school.”

Wikipedia article Downtown Ossining Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · 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 34 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Roughly along US 9, Main St., and Croton Ave., Ossining, 10562
  • When was it listed? August 1989
  • Category. building
  • Town. Ossining town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88001827 - 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

518 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 518 fires within 5 miles of Bank for Savings between 2000 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined269
Natural60
Recreation and ceremony41
Smoking38
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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 Bank for Savings: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nelson Property DepositCorundumProspect
Ossining AreaVanadium, LeadOccurrenceVanadinite
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
Haverstraw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haverstraw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindOssining1 killedno account filed
September 2021Flash FloodOssining$92,600,000Flash 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 2024Thunderstorm WindOssining$3,000Multiple tree limbs downed power poles.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindOssining$2,000Multiple downed trees and power lines were reported along Lower Spring Street.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOssining$1,000Tree down and road closure on NY 9A southbound south of Croton Dam Road in Ossining. All lanes closed.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindOssining$1,000A tree was reported down on New York State Route 9A near Ryder Road.
July 2023Flash FloodOssining-DOT reports flooding and road closure on NY 9A southbound at Ryder road. All lanes blocked.
July 2009HailOssining-Quarter size hail was reported in Ossining.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindOssining-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 2002Thunderstorm WindOssining-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 1994Thunderstorm WindOssining-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 2001Flash FloodOssining-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindOssining-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOssining-no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindOssining-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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
First Baptist Church of Ossiningunder 500 feet1973
Highland Cottage0.1 miles1982
St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Rectory0.2 miles1978
St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Rectory0.2 miles1978
Downtown Ossining Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.2 miles2013
Washington School0.3 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001827 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 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.