Bykenhulle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Bykenhulle, originally known as Ivy Hall, is a historic house located on Bykenhulle Road near the hamlet of Hopewell Junction, New York, United States, in the Town of East Fishkill. It is a wooden house in the Greek Revival architectural style.”
Wikipedia article Bykenhulle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1991 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 21 Bykenhulle Rd., Hopewell Junction, 12533
When was it listed? December 1991
Category. building
Town. East Fishkill town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91001872 - 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.

Topographic sheet covering Bykenhulle, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Bykenhulle, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

264 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Bykenhulle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 265 acres in total. 25 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	124
Arson/incendiarism	35
Smoking	28
Debris and open burning	26
Natural	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Bykenhulle: 33 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Limestone Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Stormville Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Beekman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Beekman Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clapp Hill Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fishkill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fishkill Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hopeville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hopewell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hopewell Junction	$500,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hopewell Junction	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Hopewell Junction quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Hopewell Junction quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House	1.2 miles	2008
Hopewell Junction Depot	1.9 miles	2021
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	3.4 miles	1989
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	3.5 miles	1989
Haxtun-Tower House	3.8 miles	2016
Murphy Grist Mill	4.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001872 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.