Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“Schoolhouse Gardens Apartments is a historic school building located in Groton, NY. It was built in 1919-1920 and features Classical Revival details, such as six monumental engaged Doric order columns.”
Wikipedia article Former Groton High School (Groton, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92000953- 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
91 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Groton High School
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 70 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/undetermined
52
Debris and open burning
21
Arson/incendiarism
8
Natural
5
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
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 Groton High School: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Groton, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood.
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.
Trees and wires down in the towns of Groton and Dryden. Most of the damage was withing half a mile of the village of McLean in the town of Groton. At least 15 houses sustained significant roof and porch damage from very large hardwood trees that were uprooted or had large limbs snapped off. Many trees were also downed along Cemetery Road. Many pines were snapped behind the school. Near Hart Corners (2 miles west of McLean) half of a large sturdy three story barn collapsed. The metal half dome tops of two 60 foot silos collapsed and were partially shredded and torn off on one side. A small barn at the intersection of county roads 107 and 105 was destroyed throwing debris through a wooden picket fence and across a gas station parking lot. None of the plastic cladding or signs at the gas station appeared damaged. Also no damage was visible to roofs on houses other than that caused by falling trees. A large shed was demolished near Salt Road and county road 107. East of county roads 106 and 180 to the Tompkins and Cortland County line, the damage tapered off gradually.
Numerous trees and a few wires downed. The Groton Rural Cemetery had a large number of huge old trees fall down. The largest monument in the cemetery received damage when the obelisk topping it fell off. It broke into three pieces when it hit the ground. An estimate for the repair was more than $100,000. A tree fell onto a house. Another tree fell onto a gazebo.
A thunderstorm quickly intensified to severe limits across northern portions of the county just before sunrise. Trees and power lines were downed in the town of Groton around 500 am EDT. A couple of roadways were closed for a short time in the center of town until crews were able to clear fallen trees.
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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