Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Hastings Prototype House is located at Farragut Parkway and High Street in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States. It is a Moderne-style concrete building erected during the 1930s.”
Wikipedia article Hastings Prototype House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.91001873- 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
1891 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18911995
Fires near this property
576 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 576 fires within 5 miles of Hastings Prototype House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 70 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
352
Arson/incendiarism
70
Natural
42
Smoking
34
Recreation and ceremony
34
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Debris and open burning
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Other causes
4
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Hastings Prototype House: 4 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
Hastings-on-Hudson, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 10 flash flood, 3 flood, 1 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.
The Bronx River Pkwy. was closed between the Sprain Brook Pkwy. in Yonkers and Exit 21, Main St. in White Plains, in both directions due to flooding. Additionally, the Saw Mill River Pkwy. was closed between exit 27 Marble Ave. and exit 29 Manville Rd. in Pleasantville due to flooding.
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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