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Photograph of Old Whaler's Church
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Presbyterian Church

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“First Presbyterian Church in Sag Harbor, New York, also known as Old Whaler's Church, is a historic and architecturally notable Presbyterian church built in 1844 in the Egyptian Revival style. The church is Sag Harbor's "most distinguished landmark." The facade has been described as "the most important (surviving) example of Egyptian revival style in the United States," and "the best example of the Egyptian Revival style in the U.S. today.”

Wikipedia article Old Whaler's Church (Sag Harbor), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. 44 Union St., Sag Harbor, 11963
  • When was it listed? April 1994
  • Category. building
  • Town. Southampton town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • Architect. Minard Lafever
  • National Register reference number. 94001194 - 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

88 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined53
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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 First Presbyterian Church: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Digate Concrete ProductsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Digate Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sag Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 2016LightningSag Harbor$25,000A house was struck by lightning on Union Street, between Madison and Division Streets in Sag Harbor, resulting in a fire.
July 2004Heavy RainSag Harbor-5.5" storm total.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001194 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 338 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.