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Stone Shop, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Old Stone Shop is a historic commercial building located at Lyme in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1838-1839 and is a four-by-two-bay gable-ended building with foundation and walls of coursed quarry-dressed limestone, trimmed in dressed limestone.”

Wikipedia article Old Stone Shop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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. Main St., Three Mile Bay, Chaumont, 13622
  • When was it listed? September 1990
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lyme MRA
  • Town. Lyme town
  • National Register reference number. 90001328 - 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

68 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Stone Shop, Old between 2000 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaumont, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Thunderstorm WindChaumont$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindChaumont$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005HailChaumont$10,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindChaumont$1,000Trees were reported to be down on Three Mile Point Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

6 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
Three Mile Bay Historic Districtunder 500 feet1990
Menzo Wheeler Houseunder 500 feet1990
Taylor Boathouse0.3 miles1990
Taft House0.3 miles1990
Row, The0.4 miles1990
District School No. 32.2 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001328 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 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.
  • 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.