Page House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“Page House is a historic home located at Cochecton in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1892 is a large two story, cross gabled, frame Queen Anne style dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Page House (Cohecton, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 59 C. Meyer Rd., Cochecton, 12764
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Upper Delaware Valley, New York and Pennsylvania MPS
Town. Cochecton town
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 92001601 - 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

1920 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Page House, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Page House, surveyed 1920

Fires near this property

107 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Page House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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	51
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	11
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	1

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
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Page House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Town of Delaware Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fosterdale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Fosterdale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cochecton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochecton	$15,000	Part of the same complex of thunderstorms that produced extensive damage earlier in the afternoon from the Binghamton area westward reintensified to severe levels early in the evening across Sullivan county as several cell mergers took place. Trees and wires were downed in the Cohecton area around 620 pm EDT and in the Jeffersonville area about 640 pm.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochecton	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochecton	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cochecton	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires down on Route 114.
September 2011	Flood	Cochecton	-	A mudslide was reported on Route 116.
June 2011	Hail	Cochecton	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Cochecton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1920 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1993 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000

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
Drake-Curtis House	1.8 miles	1993
Cochecton Presbyterian Church	1.8 miles	1992
Ellery Calkins House	1.8 miles	1992
Parsonage Road Historic District	1.9 miles	1992
Reilly's Store	1.9 miles	1992
Valleau Tavern	1.9 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.