Harvey Whalen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Harvey Whalen House is a historic home located in the town of Penfield in Monroe County, New York. The brick building, constructed in 1875, consists of a three-bay, Victorian Gothic main block with attached Second Empire tower and 1-story brick addition.”
Wikipedia article Harvey Whalen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1994 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Whalen, Harvey, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 140 Whalen Rd., Penfield, 14526
When was it listed? November 1994
Category. building
Town. Penfield town
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 94001342 - 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

585 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 585 fires within 5 miles of Harvey Whalen House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 62 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	314
Smoking	83
Arson/incendiarism	62
Natural	50
Debris and open burning	35
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10

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
9 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Smoking	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Harvey Whalen House: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Penfield Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mendon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mendon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pittsford Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Redman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Redman Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penfield, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2007	Lightning	Penfield	1 hurt	no account filed
July 1998	Flash Flood	Penfield	$100,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$50,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	East Penfield	$35,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$15,000	A falling tree caused damage to the corner of a house in Penfield.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$15,000	Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$15,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$10,000	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Penfield	$10,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$8,000	no account filed
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$2,000	Trees and wires downed.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$2,000	Trees and wires were downed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$1,500	Tree on top of power lines at the intersection of Baird and Wheelock roads.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$1,000	Reports of trees snapped and branches downed in Penfield.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	$1,000	Powerlines downed.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Penfield	-	Several traffic lights blown down along Panorama Trail.
August 2019	Hail	Penfield	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Penfield	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Penfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

1900 USGS Macedon quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1932 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000
1934 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1952 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Rochester 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
Mud House	0.7 miles	1978
Penfield Road Historic District	1.3 miles	2005
Hipp-Kennedy House	1.5 miles	1994
Horace and Grace Bush House	1.6 miles	1994
Samuel Rich House	1.9 miles	1987
Pines of Perinton Apartments	2.1 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001342 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 233 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.