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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Historic District

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, botany, genomics, and quantitative biology. It is located in Laurel Hollow, New York, in Nassau County, on Long Island.”

Wikipedia article Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1994 · category: District · built in 1890.

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

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of NY 25A and Bungtown Rd., Laurel Hollow, 11791
  • When was it listed? March 1994
  • Category. district
  • Town. Oyster Bay town
  • When was it built? 1890
  • National Register reference number. 94000198 - 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

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 61 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/undetermined155
Arson/incendiarism61
Natural48
Debris and open burning14
Smoking13
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
West Hills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurel Hollow, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLaurel Hollow$7,500A tree was reported down across the road and other trees down across power lines near the intersection of Laurel Hollow Road and Stewart Lane near Laurel Hollow.

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Elmwood1.5 miles1975
Edward H. Swan House2.1 miles1976
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site2.2 miles1966
James Alfred Roosevelt Estate2.6 miles1979
Schenck-Mann House3.0 miles2005
Moore's Building3.1 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000198 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau CountyAll 156 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.