Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“The House at 36 South Main Street is a historic home located at what is now numbered 73 South Main Street in the village of Moravia in Cayuga County, New York. It is a frame, Queen Anne-style residence.”
Wikipedia article House at 36 South Main Street, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.95000064- 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
37 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 37 fires within 5 miles of House at 36 South Main Street
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined
18
Debris and open burning
7
Arson/incendiarism
6
Natural
3
Smoking
2
Equipment and vehicle use
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
4 workings within 5 miles of House at 36 South Main Street: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Moravia, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 hail.
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.
Water rapidly rushed through Moravia, NY along Mill Creek and into the Owasco Lake Inlet. A dozen structures in the heart of the village experienced minor to moderate flood damage. One structure was heavily damaged by flooding. The Owasco Inlet crested at 9.44 feet which was near record flooding.
Thunderstorm winds did extensive damage in a small area on Oak Hill Road in Moravia. The damage was thought to be due to a microburst. The winds took the roof off a large barn extension, collapsed a 70 foot tall grain elevator, and downed trees. Other trees were downed on Rockefeller Road.
Heavy rain caused flash flooding. The rain caused road washouts. Owasco inlet went over its banks and flooded roadways. Other creeks out of their banks and flooding roadways. Rainfall amounts were 2 to 4 inches.
A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over at Fillmore Glen State Park.
A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a trees being knocked over and wires being knocked down in the area. Around two thousand customers were without power due to this storm.
A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a large tree, several large branches and power lines on the ground.
A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree that fell onto a road. This tree being knocked over directly caused windows to be blown out of a residential structure.
A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree which blocked the road in the vicinity of Fillmore Glenn State Park.
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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