Built in 1940 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Formerly the Wappingers Falls Village Hall this building now houses the Police Department. It is located at the corner of South Avenue and East Main Street in the village of Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, New York.”
Wikipedia article Old Wappingers Falls Village Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1940, Colonial Revival architecture, by R. Stanley-Brown.
National Register reference number.88002440- 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.
18931993
Fires near this property
492 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 492 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Wappingers Falls
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 648 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 82 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
222
Arson/incendiarism
82
Smoking
54
Natural
48
Debris and open burning
24
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Misuse of fire by a minor
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
13
Recreation and ceremony
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Other causes
1
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
23 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Wappingers Falls: 18 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
Wappingers Falls, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 27 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 flood.
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.
Heavy rain led to 3 to 4 feet of standing water in the vicinity of the Colonial Apartments near Route 9 in Wappingers Falls. This resulted in the evacuation of approximately 36 individuals from the apartments.||Additional roads were flooded in the vicinity of Red Hook and Rhinebeck.
Fast moving severe thunderstorms caused widespread damage across central and eastern New York. There were many reports of downed trees and power lines along with recorded wind gusts in excess of 50 knots. Thunderstorm winds ripped a three by six foot portion of a metal roof off a building at Binghamton Regional Airport in the town of Maine in Broome County. Sheet metal was also ripped off a barn in Schuyler in Herkimer County. In Delaware County five cows were struck and killed by lightning in the town of Franklin.
A strong cold front moved through eastern New York during the evening of April 24th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of the area. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across parts of Sullivan, Ulster, and Dutchess Counties. Hardest hit were the towns of Pawling and Marlboro where over 5,000 customers were left without power.
A severe thunderstorm produced microbursts around Wappingers Falls. Two main areas of damage were noted. The first was at Bowdoin Park along the Hudson River where numerous trees were downed. The second was near Mesier Park in the village of Wappingers Falls where approximately 50 trees were downed with some falling on homes. At least one power pole was snapped. The length of the damage was approximately 1.5 miles, with a width of approximately 275 yards.
Record flooding occurred on the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie. The Poughkeepsie river gage located on left bank at IBM pumping station, 2.3 miles south of Poughkeepsie, and 3.5 miles south of the Mid-Hudson bridge exceeded its 5 foot flood stage at 819 am EST August 28th, crested at a record 7.96 feet, and dropped below flood stage at 8 pm August. The time of the crest is unknown since the gage was damaged during the flooding.
Several roads were closed in the vicinity of Wappingers Falls, including New Hackensack Road, and Myers Corners Road, which was reportedly under 4 feet of water.
Trees were reported down in Wappingers Falls due to strong thunderstorm winds. One tree damaged a house on East Academy Street, while another fell on a car on South Ramsen Avenue.||
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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