Big House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Big House is a historic home located at Palisades in Rockland County, New York. The Big House is the oldest dwelling in Palisades and the only building remaining from the hamlet's formative years.”
Wikipedia article Big House (Palisades, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 9W near jct. with Closter Rd., Palisades, 10964
When was it listed? July 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Palisades MPS
Town. Orangetown town
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 90001008 - 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

388 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Big House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 713 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 35 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	229
Natural	39
Arson/incendiarism	35
Smoking	30
Recreation and ceremony	25
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	1

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 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Big House: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Molybdenum. 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
Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer
North Jersey Iron Ore Co. Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Hickory Lane Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1890
Sparkill Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sparkill Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Taverniere & Johnson	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1897, 1908

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palisades, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Palisades	$1,000	Tree reported down on NY 303 northbound between Campbell Avenue and Oak Tree Road in Orangetown with partial blockage of one lane.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Palisades	-	Sparkill Creek overflowed its banks flooding several streets in Tappan. A bridge on Oak Tree Road, also in Tappan, was inundated with water and closed to traffic.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Palisades	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Haring-Eberle House	under 500 feet	1990
Little House	under 500 feet	1990
Closter Road-Oak Tree Road Historic District	0.2 miles	1990
Washington Spring Road-Woods Road Historic District	0.3 miles	1990
Neiderhurst	0.3 miles	1990
Seven Oaks Estate	0.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland County	All 93 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.