A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“The Hudson River Historic District, also known as Hudson River Heritage Historic District, is the largest Federally designated district on the mainland of the contiguous United States. It covers an area of 22,205 acres extending inland roughly a mile (1.6 km) from the east bank of the Hudson River between Staatsburg and Germantown in Dutchess and Columbia counties in the U.S. state of New York.”
Wikipedia article Hudson River Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.90002219- 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
1898 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18981993
Fires near this property
318 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Wilderstein
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 45 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
184
Arson/incendiarism
45
Smoking
32
Debris and open burning
27
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
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
17 workings within 5 miles of Wilderstein: 10 past producers, 7 producers.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Staatsburg, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 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.
A stationary front which was draped across northern Pennsylvania and southeast New York on the 13th of August was responsible for severe thunderstorms which occurred across parts of eastern New York early that morning and during the afternoon. The first round of thunderstorms occurred during the early morning hours of the 13th of August accompanied by a tremendous number of cloud to ground lightning strikes. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in Guilderland and Troy. Later that day a second round of thunderstorms downed trees and powerlines across eastern parts of Ulster County and northern parts of Dutchess County.
Many large trees were reported down at the Mills Mansion Historic Site as a result of thunderstorm winds. Scaffolding was also reported damaged and hanging off the building.
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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