George and Gladys Scheidemantel House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“George and Gladys Scheidemantel House is a historic home located at East Aurora in Erie County, New York. It is a locally distinctive example of the Arts and Crafts movement style of architecture built in 1910.”
Wikipedia article George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 1993 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Scheidemantel, George and Gladys, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 363 Oakwood Ave., East Aurora, 14052
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. building
Town. Aurora town
National Register reference number. 93000778 - 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

1905 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

128 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of George and Gladys Scheidemantel House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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	77
Natural	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of George and Gladys Scheidemantel House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bloating Material, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	West Falls	Bloating Material	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	West Falls Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Aurora, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$20,000	The media relayed reports of trees and wires down. A trailer was blown over.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$15,000	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on Maple Road in East Aurora.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$12,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	A tree fell on a house on Girard Avenue.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on Olean Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Maple and First Streets.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$10,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in East Aurora.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$8,000	Reports of downed trees by thunderstorm winds were noted on social media.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$5,000	Power pole snapped; trees and wires downed.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$5,000	Thunderstorms which moved onshore from Lake Erie produced damaging winds and spawned a weak tornado. The tornado mainly uprooted trees, one of which fell onto a house.
July 2011	Hail	East Aurora	$5,000	no account filed
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$3,000	Trees and power lines reported down on Knox Road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$2,000	Trees and wires were reported down.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$1,000	Large trees were downed.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	East Aurora	$1,000	Large trees were downed.
July 2024	Hail	East Aurora	-	Nickel to quarter sized hailstones reported in East Aurora.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1905 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS East Aurora quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS East Aurora quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Roycroft Campus, Copper Shop	0.2 miles	1974
St. Matthias Episcopal Church Complex	0.2 miles	2019
Millard Fillmore House	0.2 miles	1974
Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	2012
Bank of East Aurora	0.6 miles	2021
Yeomans House	1.0 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000778 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.