Romer-Van Tassel House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Romer-Van Tassel House is a historic home located at 2121 Saw Mill River Road in Elmsford, Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1793 on the site of an older Romer family house; that house and the Romer family were associated with the capture of John André in 1780.”
Wikipedia article Romer-Van Tassel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Romer--Van Tassel House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2121 Saw Mill River Rd., Greenburgh, 10523
When was it listed? November 1994
Category. building
Town. Greenburgh town
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 94001373 - 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

870 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 870 fires within 5 miles of Romer-Van Tassel House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 75 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	501
Smoking	75
Arson/incendiarism	75
Natural	72
Recreation and ceremony	66
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Debris and open burning	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Other causes	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
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Romer-Van Tassel House: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
(Facility) Chester Metals Division Refinery	Silver	Plant
Dobbs Ferry Plant	Molybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, Tantalum	Producer
Sparkill Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sparkill Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Ackerman's Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1932 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery	0.8 miles	1983
Leo Friedlander Studio	1.0 miles	1982
East Irvington School	1.5 miles	1983
Odell House	1.8 miles	1973
Washington Irving Memorial	1.8 miles	2000
Washington Irving High School	1.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001373 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.