Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Wales House is located on West Market Street near the center of Hyde Park, New York, United States. It is a large brick house dating to the end of the 19th century, an early application of the Colonial Revival architectural style by architect Charles Follen McKim of the New York City firm of McKim, Mead and White.”
Wikipedia article Wales House (Hyde Park, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.93000858- 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
1893 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931995
Fires near this property
604 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 604 fires within 5 miles of Wales House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 440 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 97 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
335
Arson/incendiarism
97
Smoking
59
Natural
26
Debris and open burning
26
Misuse of fire by a minor
25
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Recreation and ceremony
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Other causes
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
13 workings within 5 miles of Wales House: 13 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Stone, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hyde Park, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
Heavy rain led to widespread flooding of small streams and creeks across the county, which began during the early morning hours of Monday, April 16th, and persisted into Wednesday morning on the 18th.|Record flooding occurred on the Wappingers Creek at Wappingers Falls, which crested at 15.06 feet at 19:45 EST on the 16th, which was 7.06 feet above the flood stage of 8.0 feet.|Moderate flooding also was recorded along the Tenmile River at Webatuck, which crested at 11.23 feet at 16:45 EST on the 16th. |Widespread flooding led to numerous road closures, which included large stretches of the Taconic State Parkway in both directions throughout the county.|In addition, numerous home foundation collapses were reported near Stormville during Monday morning on the 16th.
A few road closures were reported in Pawling, Lagrangeville, Fairview and Poughkeepsie due to flooding. Some of the roads in Pawling suffered minor washouts.
During the late evening hours of May 19, a cold front initiated several severe thunderstorms across the Mid-Hudson Valley of eastern New York. Trees were downed by the wind in Ulster and Dutchess Counties. Scattered power outages also occurred when trees knocked down several power lines. Approximately 1,000 customers lost power for several hours.
A tree was downed on Route 9 (Albany Post Road) due to thunderstorm winds in Hyde Park. The roadway was briefly closed and traffic was detoured around the area until the tree was removed.
A tree and wires were downed at the intersection of Route 9 and Vanderbilt Lane in Hyde Park due to thunderstorm winds. Traffic had to be re-routed around the area until utility crews were able to repair the power lines.
Golf ball size hail was reported in Hyde Park during a thunderstorm. In addition, trees were also reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds.||The hail stripped the leaves off many trees in Hyde Park, with the greatest concentration of hail occurring between State Route 9, East Market Street, State Route 9G, and South Cross Street.||The large hail damaged tree fruits, berries and vegetables near Hyde Park, and across several other areas within Dutchess County. Total preliminary crop damage estimates from the hail in Dutchess County were approximately $588 thousand.
Trees were reported down in Hyde Park due to strong thunderstorm winds. Golf ball size hail was also reported in Hyde Park during this thunderstorm.||A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team determined that straight line winds from a thunderstorm downed some trees and large limbs in the vicinity of Hyde Park. Peak estimated winds were 60 mph.
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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