English Evangelical Church of the Reformation and Parish House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Lutheran Church of the Reformation, also known as Glory House International, is a historic church complex located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1900-1902, and is a Late Romanesque Revival style sandy grey brick church with stone embellishments.”
Wikipedia article English Evangelical Church of the Reformation and Parish House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92000150- 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
2,517 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,517 fires within 5 miles of English Evangelical Church of the Reformation and Parish House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,625 acres in total. 171 started naturally. 282 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
1153
Smoking
612
Arson/incendiarism
282
Natural
171
Equipment and vehicle use
101
Debris and open burning
100
Misuse of fire by a minor
48
Power generation/transmission/distribution
28
Recreation and ceremony
17
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
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
3 workings within 5 miles of English Evangelical Church of the Reformation and Parish House: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 plant.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, Aluminum. 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
Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 7 hail, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 car was stuck in a sinkhole along St. Paul Boulevard between Paxon Road and Wimbledon Road. There were widespread reports of standing water on roads from Greece to the western portions of Rochester.
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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