Roslyn House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Roslyn House is a historic hotel located on Roslyn Road in Roslyn Heights in Nassau County, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Roslyn House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1990 · 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. Jct. of Lincoln Ave. and Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Heights, 11577
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Town. North Hempstead town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90000880 - 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

907 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 907 fires within 5 miles of Roslyn House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 371 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 59 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	526
Smoking	121
Arson/incendiarism	59
Natural	56
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Power generation/transmission/distribution	41
Recreation and ceremony	25
Debris and open burning	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
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

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Roslyn House: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
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

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
Mackay Estate Gate Lodge	under 500 feet	1991
Samuel Adams Warner House	0.2 miles	1986
Mackay Estate Water Tower	0.4 miles	1991
Roslyn Village Historic District	0.5 miles	1987
Main Street Historic District	0.5 miles	1974
Roslyn National Bank and Trust Company Building	0.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000880 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.